Chanchal Sanyal is an entrepreneur in the live events and activation space of the advertising industry, currently based in Gurgaon. He has been at various times�sometimes concurrently�college lecturer, itinerant traveller, mainline advertising professional, business owner and now a writer. A resident of Delhi since his childhood, he has seen the city grow, evolve, mutate and spawn a Noida and a Gurgaon in hastily contracted marriages with its neighbouring states. The city and its peoples are a source of endless fascination for him. While this is his first novel, he has as he says��been writing fiction for twenty years�after all, I have been in the advertising business for over two decades.� Chanchal Sanyal is based in Gurgaon.