Amandeep Sandhu  Amandeep Sandhu (, born 1973) is a Punjabi writer who writes in English. His second novel "Roll of Honour" was nominated for Hindu Literary Prize for Best Fiction in 2013. Sandhu was born in a Sikh family in Rourkela, Odisha in 1973. He did a Masters in English Literature from the University of Hyderabad. He then did a Diploma in Journalism from Asian School of Journalism. In 2013, he joined Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany for a 2 year fellowship. "Sepia Leaves" is a semi-autobiographical novel set in 1970s when emergency was declared by then Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi and the protagonist is growing up in Rourkela and his mother suffers from schizophrenia. "Roll of Honour" is a semi-autobiographical novel which tells the story of Appu who studies at a military boarding school in the fictional town of Jassabad in Punjab in 1984. This novel was translated into Punjabi by Daljit Ami under the title "Gwah De Fanah Hon Ton Pahilan". "Panjab" Sandhu's first work of non-fiction in which he looks at the past and present of Punjab, India in the backdrop of Green revolution, Emergency, Punjab insurgency and the present.