Bikash Sangraula is a journalist based in Kathmandu. After over a decade with Nepal’s leading English dailies during which he honed his writing skills, he quit in 2012 to find time for his soul-project: fiction writing. Sangraula has written for The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, and Inter Press Service. He now works for the Japanese news agency Kyodo News as Nepal correspondent. This is his debut novel.