The author has had a lifelong relationship with India. Raised in childhood on a relative’s stories of panthers, scorpions and snakes, he jumped at the chance to travel to rural Bihar as a volunteer worker living on a leprosy hospital in 1978. He read philosophy, his other lifelong passion, at the University of Sussex and has since travelled extensively in South Asia pursuing his interest in Eastern philosophy. After a career in IT spanning thirty years, it is perhaps no surprise that he has ended up working for one of modern India’s new technology behemoths. ‘The Polygamist’ is his debut novel.The back story to the novel is discussed in the interview on this link:http://www.thecrazymind.com/2016/11/the-polygamist.html