About the author
Ankush Saikia was born in Tezpur, Assam in 1975. He grew up in Madison, Wisconsin; Assam; and Shillong, Meghalaya. He has worked for India Today magazine, Sage Publications and Dorling Kindersley. He was shortlisted for the fourth Outlook/Picador-India non-fiction writing award (2005) and is the author of two books: Jet City Woman (2007) and Spotting Veron and Other Stories (2011). He is currently based in Shillong, Meghalaya and Tezpur, Assam.?
