Bhatia was born to a mathematician father and a documentary-film-maker mother; he was raised in New Delhi. He attained his LL.B. from National Law School of India University in 2011, and went on to pursue a B.C.L. (2012) and M.Phil. (2013) from Balliol College, University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Books by Gautam Bhatia Silent Spaces And Other Stories of Architecture Short History of Everything Malaria Dreams And Other Stories A Moment in ArchitecturePunchtantra: Parables For the 21st Century Lie:a Traditional Tale Of Modern India Stories of Storeys: Art, Architecture and the City Blueprint Delirious City: Polity and Vanity in Urban India Laurie Baker The Wall The Transformative Constitution: A Radical Biography in Nine Acts