[2] Born and educated mostly in Gaya, India, Khair has received honours and awards including first prize in the sixth Poetry Society (India) Competition held in 1995, an honorary fellowship for creative writing from the Baptist University of Hong Kong, fellowships at New Delhi's universities and a by-fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge University, UK.
Other Routes (2005), an anthology of travel writing by Africans and Asians, was edited by Khair (with a foreword by Amitav Ghosh).
Khair's Encore shortlisted novel, The Bus Stopped, has already appeared in French, Italian and Portuguese.
It has been greeted with acclaim: "...in keeping with Khair's pertinent and thought-provoking musings on self-deception".
Khair's study The Gothic, Postcolonialism and Otherness was released by Palgrave (Macmillan) in the UK and US in the winter of 2009.