Prajwal Parajuly was born on 24 October 1984 to an Indian father, Bipin Chandra Sharma, and a Nepalese mother, Sarala Bhattarai, in Gangtok, Sikkim, India. He was educated at Tashi Namgyal Academy, Gangtok. Thereafter, he received a BA in Communication with an emphasis on journalism from Truman State University, Kirksville, USA, in 2006, and a Master of Studies in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford, UK, in 2012. He worked as an advertising executive at The Village Voice and wrote for The New York Times, The Guardian, the New Statesman, and the BBC, before committing to a writing career. He has two major publications till date: The Gurkha’s Daughter: Stories (2012) and Land Where I Flee (2013). His writing focuses primarily on the experiences, negotiations, and everyday realities of Indian Nepali immigrants, especially with narratives that deal with how the Nepali-speaking people of India navigate their complex identity politics in both national and international settings. As such, his texts rethink what it means to be a Gurkha in the diasporic context in contemporary times.