Manikarnika Lagu

The author was born in a highly educated matrilineal family of the lush green state of Kerala, India. After obtaining a Ph.D, she pursued a career in Physics as a teacher and researcher with interest in Condensed Matter and Non-linear Physics, at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. She has published several research papers in various scientific journals.

Breaking the traditional norms of Hindu society, she opted for an inter-caste and inter-state marriage, choosing a Maharashtrian Brahmin colleague as her life partner. She has only one son who is a corporate settled in N. America. After remaining an academic for two decades she took voluntary retirement to pursue her passion for writing.

Apart from knowledge hunting, reading and writing, she enjoys intellectual discussions on human brain, its potential and complexity and consciousness, an outcome of which is this book. She loves to live in new places all the time as it invigorates her and boosts her creative urge.

She is passionately involved in supporting helpless children all over India.