Jane Borges is a Mumbai-based journalist. She currently writes on books, heritage and urban planning for Sunday mid-day, the weekend edition of mid-day newspaper. Her debut novel, Bombay Balchão, was published in November 2019 by Westland Books. The book was recently shortlisted for the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puruskar and Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival award. In 2011, she co-authored Mafia Queens of Mumbai: Stories of Women from the Ganglands with S. Hussain Zaidi, which was shortlisted for The Economist Crossword Book award. Her fiction has been featured in the 2013 New Asian Writing Short Story Anthology and The Hindu BusinessLine's BL Ink magazine.