Dilip Hiro is an Indian author based in London, who is also a historian, journalist and broadcaster as well as a writer of scripts for cinema, TV drama and stage plays.
The British feature film - A Private Enterprise, about a young Indian in the Midlands, co-scripted by him won a silver Hugo at the Chicago Film Festival of 1975. Moving Portraits (1987), his TV play for Channel 4, about a struggling Indian painter in Britain won plaudits for its realism. Ten years earlier, he scripted half of the 20 episodes of BBC TV's serial Neighbours, a story of two South Asian families in Britain.
His adaptation of Bertolt Brecht and Lion Feuchtwanger's Calcutta, 4th May as Calcutta, 4th May: Seven Scenes of Europe in Asia, had its staged reading at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, London, in 1991. And Ravi Shankar Hall in London was the venue of the staging of his one-act play, Apply, Apply, No Reply in 1978.