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Born and brought up in Mumbai, Manoj Bhavnani passed out
from St. Xavier’s College with a degree in Statistics. But numbers
are his second love. His passion for telling stories drove him to join
advertising, where he has spent over a decade. He has worked on
some of the biggest brands in the country, and is currently a
creative director at Bates Asia. This is his first novel.

Andre Beteile is Professor Emeritus of Sociology in the university of Delhi. He has held visiting appointments at Cambridge, the London School of Economics, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, and various other institutions in Europe and America. He was also a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin, and a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities, Edinburgh. He was a Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow from 1968 to 1970, and received the Jawaharlal Nehru National Award of the Government of Madhya Pradesh in 1994.
Apart from his newspaper articles, he has piublished extensively in scholarly periodicals in India and abrad. His books include Caste, Class and Power, Studies in Agrarian Social Structure, and Society and Politics in India. The book readings entitled Social Inequality, edited by him and published by Penguin Books in 1969, has been used in the teaching of sociology worldwide. A previous collectionof newspaper articles was published by Penguin Books India in 2000 under the title Chronicles of Our Time.
Professor Beteille is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and an Honoraray Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Kavery Nambisan has written seven novels including The Scent of Pepper, On Wings of Butterflies and A Town Like Ours. She has also written several works of non-fiction including a medical memoir titled A Luxury Called Health and Cherry Red, Cherry Black: The Coffee Story. She was a Fellow at the International Writers Workshop in the University of Iowa in 2007 and was also one of the thirteen writers from various countries invited to Greece for a Fullbright-sponsored symposium on “Home/Homelands” in 2008.

A trained surgeon, she has worked in rural areas in Bihar, UP, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Kavery was married to the late poet and writer Vijay Nambisan.