Ruchir Joshi (Hindi : रुचिर जोशी ) is an Indian writer, filmmaker and a columnist for India Today. He is best known for his debut novel titled The Last Jet-Engine Laugh (2001). He is also the author of India’s first anthology of contemporary erotica, Electric Feather: The Tranquebar Book of Erotic Stories, published by Tranquebar Press/Westland. He has two sons, aged sixteen and twelve.

Ruchir Joshi is the son of a Gujarati writer and dramatist Shivkumar Joshi. Born in 1960, he was brought up in Kolkata. He moved to New Delhi in 1997 and stayed there till 2007. Since then he has been shuttling between London and Delhi.

Apart from writing for regular columns in newspapers and magazines, Joshi made a film on Bauls in 1992. It is called Egaro Mile (Eleven Miles). Early in his life, when he was just out of school, he decided to take up acting and performed in an English play called You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown directed by Zarin Chaudhuri. He wrote a piece called Tracing Puppa which was published in Granta 109 in a series of recollections regarding fathers.