Tathagata Roy was born in 1945 in Kolkata into a humble middleclass East Bengali Hindu family. Even as a student, he was brilliant at observing life around him, which has found expression in this book. Roy is something of a polymath. He began life as a civil engineer, joined the Indian railways and played a significant role in building India’s first Metro in Kolkata. He then branched off into law, enquiring into the intersection of law and engineering, the subject
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