Barun Kumar Sahu, the author, is a senior Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer. He is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur. He has done MBA from IGNOU, with specialization in Finance. Born and brought up in West Bengal, his parents hail from Jharkhand. He is married, and has two daughters. This is his eighth book. He writes in English and Hindi.
The author has over twenty-five years of experience in the public service. It includes five years in vigilance as Chief Vigilance Officer in Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Limited (GRSE), Ordnance Factories Board (OFB) and Hindustan Paper Corporation Limited (HPC), and as Vice President of Vigilance Study Circle, Kolkata Chapter. The author handled the personnel matters of central armed police forces in Ministry of Home Affairs for almost four years.
