Kavery Nambisan belongs to Coorg and she was born in Palangala village in South Kodagu, Karnataka in 1947. Her surgical career was spent chiefly in rural parts of India. Her latest work The Story That Must Not Be Told was shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize in 2008. Her The Truth (Almost) About Bharat was published in 1991and reissued by the publisher in 2002. It was pubished under her maiden name Kavery Bhatt, and reissued with the name Kavery Nambisan. Her other works include The Scent of Pepper, Mango- coloured Fish, On Wings of Butterflies, The Hills Of Angheri. Nambisan’s novels reveal a deep occupation with the changing Indian social and political scene. Her careful, conscious craftsmanship, and her skillful use of English language for creative writings. She excels in recording the inner mechanism, the minds of her characters, their personal perplexities and social confrontations.