Arun Joshi (1939-1993), son of a botanist and an eminent educationist, was born in Varanasi and educated in India and the U.S. After getting his Masters degree in Industrial Management from M.I.T., he returned to India to pursue a career in the corporate world.

Yet writing remained his passion. In the five novels he wrote he spun out some of the most though-provoking and outstanding fiction written in the twentieth century Indian literature and firmly established his credentials as a writer of rare talent and sensitivity.

The Last Labyrinth won him the Sahitya Akademi Award, India’s highest literary honour in 1982.