Rajeev Balasubramanyam (1974) is the prize-winning author of In Beautiful Disguises and Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss. He has lived in London, Manchester, Suffolk, Kathmandu and Hong Kong, where he was a Research Scholar in the Society of Scholars at Hong Kong University. He was a fellow of the Hemera Foundation, for writers with a meditation practice, and has been writer-in-residence at Crestone Zen Mountain Center and the Zen Center of New York City. His journalism and short fiction have appeared in the Washington Post, The Economist, New Statesman, London Review of Books, Paris Review, McSweeney’s and many others. He currently lives in Berlin.
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