Siddhartha Sarma is an Indian novelist and journalist from Assam who writes in English.
[1] While working as a journalist for a business magazine in Delhi, he published the young adult novel The Grasshopper's Run with Scholastic in 2009.
[1][3] To write the novel, he conducted archival research and incorporated stories he was told by his grandfather.
[1][4] The story is set in Assam and Nagaland during the Second World War and follows the friendship between a Naga and Assamese boy.
[14][15][16] In 2019, he published the non-fiction book Carpenters and Kings: Western Christianity and the Idea of India after nine years of research on a concept he developed while completing his thesis for a Master of Letters at the University of Glasgow.