Vaibhav Srivastav

"Born in a small town of UP called Gonda, Vaibhav Srivastav spent his childhood in small cities like Sonpur, Lucknow and Baroda, studied in Banaras and Delhi, and worked in Bangalore and Mumbai. He has devoured a veritable feast of novels and short stories from an early age.

During this journey of living in a wide variety of cities and towns he has collected innumerable experiences, and these experiences have helped him put his stories on paper. Vaibhav presently works as the Area Business Manager of Mumbai for Titan Company Ltd. He has studied management from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Delhi and engineering from Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University.

He runs a blog on films called Filmistani (www.philmistani.in) and is also a moderator of a popular socio-political humour page on Facebook called Bhak Sala which is currently followed by more than 5 and a half lakh people.

The collection deals with tales of magical realism, stories wherein ordinary humans are placed in extraordinary conditions, reflections on mortality, divinity and also certain stories about love, longing and nostalgia"