Born and raised in the city of Poona, Siddharth Dasgupta left home at the age of seventeen and ended up spending the next decade, and then some, in foreign lands. After he’d had his fill of both southern Africa and Dubai, and after battling and then vanquishing a particularly tumultuous brain tumour, he returned to India and promptly set about putting pen to paper. He’s enjoyed a storied advertising career in which he’s led creative agencies as well as written for them, but writing for his own self has always been the most consequential journey. He regularly submits himself to the passions of wanderlust, the unexpectedness of conversations, and the whims of desire. Letters from an Indian Summer is Siddharth’s first novel.