Timeri N. Murari began his career as a reporter on a newspaper in Canada before joining The Guardian in London. He has also written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Sunday Times, London, The Observer, The Hindu, Indian Express, and other magazines. He has since written 14 novels. He has written the screenplay of the much acclaimed award-winning movie Daayraa (1997), which was voted one of the ten best films of 1997 by Time magazine. He adapted and directed it as a stage play, The Square Circle, at the Leicester Haymarket Theatre in November 1999, starring Parminder Nagra. His latest novel is called Chanakya Returns.