Tino de Sa grew up a thousand miles away from his ancestral island-village of Divar, Goa, in the dusty little central Indian railway town of Bhusaval, where his father ran a picture house and, off and on, was Mayor. He took degrees at St. Xavier’s College in Mumbai and then, as a Mason Fellow, at Harvard in the USA.
He was selected to the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in 1980. His varied assignments included a stint with the United Nations, and culminated in his being one of the longest serving Chief Secretaries of Madhya Pradesh.
He has twice won the first prize in the Times of India ‘Write India’ national short story competition—in 2017 and again in 2019.
Some of his poems have been included in anthologies of the Poetry Society of India and Delhi Poetree.
He is the author of two collections of short stories, "The Disrobing of Draupadi and Other Stories" and "One for Sorrow, Two for Joy", and a novel for teenagers, "The Curious Case of the Nandikote Nawab".
'Tino de Sa' is the nom de plume of Anthony de Sa.
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