Ronen Chatterjee of Class 12-S is arguably India’s youngest published author of English fiction. On his
15th birthday on August 7th, 2007 he released his first book “Fire Within”, a collection of tennis stories
encompassing three generations of a family. The second part consisted of a human trafficking story and
one on smuggling and animal poaching.
Ronen’s second literary offering, ”Ready to Rock” was released on October 23rd, 2009 by internationally
acclaimed film and TV star Kabir Bedi at the Ambassador Hotel, New Delhi. Also present on the
occasion were Ambassadors, business leaders, administrators, including the Chief Election Commissioner
S.Y. Qureshi, broadcaster Sunit Tandon, CEO of the Lok Sabha Channel and journalists Sanjay Kapoor
and Chandan Mitra. Expressing his admiration for Ronen, Kabir Bedi said, “Ronen has written not one,
but two books….I hope that Ronen one day graduates to the level of noted authors like Arundhati Roy
and Arvind Adiga.”
“Ready To Rock” centres around Arjun and his friends who study at a boarding school, Sherwood
College, Nainital, whose alumni include Amitabh Bachchan, Kabir Bedi and the author’s father.
YPS has acknowledged Ronen’s creativity by awarding him a Red Coat for his outstanding literary skills
in November 2008.