Born on August 2, 1932, the author is currently an honorary fellow at the Center for South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A., an affiliation he took up after retiring as a Director of ...visualizza altroBorn on August 2, 1932, the author is currently an honorary fellow at the Center for South Asia, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A., an affiliation he took up after retiring as a Director of Rehabilitation Services. He has primarily been a South Asianist. He started his career as a lecturer in the Department of Hindi at Gaya College, Gaya, Sanskrit, and a Ph.D. He has extensive teaching, research, and publication to his credit in the fields of language, literature, and linguistics. His academic affiliations had been with Magadha University, Gaya, India; All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi; Delhi University, New Helhi; Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, India; Vishwabharati, Shantiniketan, West Bengal; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, U.S.A.; and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A. He had shown his literary flare at an early age of eleven. Since then, he had been writing poems and plays in his school and college days, all remaining unpublished. He took to writing fiction lately, only after his retirement. He has published a collection of short stories in Hindi entitled Adhure Sapne from Grantha Sadan, Delhi in 2003. He has completed a collection of short stories in English entitled Walls All Around. The present work is his first novel.visualizza meno