Makarand R. Paranjape (born 31 August 1960) is an Indian novelist, poet, author of Body Offering, a former director at Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla, and former professor of English at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.
In August 2020, charges of irregularities filed against him by another office-bearer, leading to a spat with the chairman and the vice-chairman at the institution.
[7] In his coffee-table book of poems published in January 2022 as Identity's Last Secret, Paranjape discussed how he "came out of a difficult relationship."
[8] The novel is a tale of a middle-aged man's extra-marital affair with a woman 25 years younger [citation needed] than him.
The Sunday Guardian dubbed the book as one "that walked in the long shadow cast" by Russian-American writer Vladimir Nabakov's 1955 novel Lolita.