Manju Jaidka has worked as a Professor and Chairperson of the Department of English at Panjab University, Chandigarh, and is now a Senior Professor at Shoolini University in Himachal Pradesh. A leading academician with postdoctoral experience at universities like Harvard and Yale, she is the recipient of several national and international fellowships. The author of more than a dozen academic books and sixty research papers in reputed national and international journals, she is also an award-winning creative writer, having published fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama. This is her fourth novel.