Aju Mukhopadhyay is an award winning poet, writer and critic. He regularly contributes to various media in India and abroad. He has so far authored 40 books including 10 books of poems in English. The present volume of poems is his eleventh book of poems in English. Large numbers of reviews and articles on his poems in books and magazines have so far been published. Besides many poetry and other awards he has received the Albert Camus Centenary Writing Award, the Laureate Award in Best Author category (Non-Fiction) and the Glory of India Award (Indian Achievers’ Forum).