Kunal Basu Kushal Ray

Kunal Basu is the author of four critically acclaimed novels (The Opium Clerk; The Miniaturist; Racists; The Yellow Emperor's Cure, and a collection of stories - The Japanese Wife - the title story of which has been made into an award winning film. He has written poetry and screenplays; acted in films and on stage, and is arried with one daughter. He was born in Kolkata and teaches at Oxford University. Kushal Ray, a former sports journalist with The Telegraph, has taken part in several major international photography exhibitions. His work has been published in a number of prestigious photography magazines including Private and Punctum. He has also held two solo exhibitions of his paintings and drawings in Kolkata where he lives. He is associated with Drik India and ARTCO Gallery, Germany.