Sunil Gupta began working as a junior officer in Tihar jail in 1981. He eventually rose to become the spokesperson and legal advisor of the jail. He is now practicing as a lawyer in the Supreme Court and the Delhi High Court. He has received the India Vision Award for his work on Prison Reforms and Administration. He is also the sole officer from the legal field to have received the President’s Correctional Medal for Meritorious and Distinguished Services. This is his second book.
Samanwaya Rautray has had a long and distinguished journalistic career spanning three decades in several reputed newspapers and publications. As a legal reporter, she has covered the Supreme Court, the Election Commission and Law Ministry, for over two decades, for newspapers such as The Statesman, The Hindustan Times, Reuters India, The Telegraph, and the Economic Times. With this book, she returns to her first love, writing. This is her first book.
Sayantan Ghosh is an author, journalist and academic based in Kolkata. He teaches journalism at St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, and has over eight years of professional experience, including work as a political correspondent in Delhi and as an associate fellow at the Delhi Assembly Research Centre. He is the author of The Aam Aadmi Party: The Untold Story of a Political Uprising and Its Undoing and writes for The Quint, Deccan Herald, Moneycontrol and the Free Press Journal.
Satyajit Ray (1921–1992) was one of the greatest filmmakers of his time and received the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1992. In the same year, he was honored with the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award. A true polymath, Ray was not only a visionary director but also a brilliant writer, illustrator, designer and music composer. His literary works, spanning short stories, novellas, poems and articles in Bengali, continue to captivate readers of all ages. A creator of the beloved Feluda series, he is also known for his widely popular writings for children, many of which have been translated and enjoyed by readers beyond Bengali literature. Most of his books remain widely read and appreciated even today.
