Dinanath Manohar is a Marathi short story writer, novelist, with five novel at my credit, and several short stories. His first novel 'Robot' got Maharashtra state award, and recently 'Manvantar" got the Maharashtra Foundation Award. This is his first story in English. He is a social worker and has been full time activist in the working in a mass organization dealing with Bhil tribal laborers. Presently he is honorary editor of a fortnightly 'Parivartacha Vatsaru' published from Pune.