Altaf Tyrewala (born January 1977) is an Indian, English-language author. He lives in Mumbai. Altaf studied advertising and marketing in New York, he earned a BBA from Baruch College in 1995, before returning to Mumbai in 1999 to work on his critically acclaimed debut novel "No God in Sight". The novel, published by Penguin India in 2005, has been translated into Marathi, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch, and published in the US and Canada. Tyrewala's short stories have been included in several Indian and international anthologies. Altaf's work has been hailed as "more sophisticated and universal than Adiga’s" by some critics.Altaf Tyrewala has worked as a cashier, a telemarketer, a clerk and an instructional writer. He has written No God in Sight, Ministry of Hurt Sentiments and Engglishhh.