Abha Dawesar  Abha Dawesar (born 1 January 1974) is an Indian-born novelist and visual artist writing in English. She is known for writing about themes of sexuality and interpersonal relationships. Dawesar was awarded a New York Foundation of the Arts fiction fellowship and has won numerous awards for her fiction, with her 2005 novel "Babyji" winning both the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction and the Stonewall Book Award. She lives in New York City. Abha Dawesar was born in New Delhi, India to parents Bhushan K. and Shakuntala Dawesar. She moved to the United States from India to attend Harvard University, where she graduated in 1995. Before publishing her award-winning second novel, "Babyji" (2005), Dawesar was working at a global financial services firm in Manhattan. She quit her financial job to devote her time to writing. Dawesar has been exhibiting photography, visual, and video art since being a student at Harvard in 1995. Her work has been exhibited at various galleries and museums in the United States and abroad. Since 2013, Dawesar has been speaking on issues around digital technology and its effects on social behavior and experience.