AUTHORS

Author "Dash" uses this as his pen name. He was born to Dr Dharampal Deswal and Mrs Sukhdevi Malik Deswal in a village called ‘Ladhot', district Rohtak, state Haryana, in India. After his schooling in his native village and then in the city of Rohtak, Jhajjar, he went on to his college to study marine engineering in Calcutta. He is a regular seaman. He is a marine chief Engineer, as well as an examiner of engineers and an auditor. He is a published author of a book called Ankahi the Untold, and is a poet too. He is well-versed both in Hindi and English writing, and draws his inspiration from Paulo Coelho and Ayn Rand. He has had a long career at sea, for more than twenty-six years. He prefers writing stark truth and believes in the freedom of literary creativity.