Devapriya Roy is an Indian author best known for her books, Friends from College, Indira and The Heat and Dust Project.

[1] Roy began her career with The Vague Woman’s Handbook, a quirky novel that was published by HarperCollins[2][3] in March 2011 and subsequently appeared on the India Today Bestseller List.

[4] Her second book was The Weight Loss Club: The Curious Experiments of Nancy Housing Cooperative, yet another quirky novel published by Rupa & Co.[5] in July 2013.

Her 2015 book, The Heat and Dust Project[6][7][8][9] (written along with husband Saurav Jha) chronicles the story of travelling through India on local buses "on a very very tight budget" which debuted at no.1 on the Hindustan Times-AC Nielsen list and also got excellent reviews.

[10][11] The Heat and Dust Project is also a first-of-its-kind dynamic book as the couple used Facebook to document their journey even as it was underway.