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Mukherjee, and Advait Shelke for inviting me into their workplaces. Thanks
also to Amlu and Girish Vidyanath for their warm hospitality in Bombay.
My editor Eric Zinner’s patience and faith in the project has meant a lot to
me all along. And to Ciara McLaughlin and Alicia Nadkarni at NYU Press,
whose care and diligence kept everything moving forward, thanks in no
small measure.
I have been fortunate to have the love and support of friends and relatives
too numerous to mention. Without their care and affection, not to men-
tion the countless phone calls and emails some endured, it would have been
impossible to write this book. Some of them are: Parmesh Shahani, Shashank
Saksena, Mobina Hashmi, Swati Bandi, Vikas John, Samina Raja, Chris Lee,
Niharika Banerjee, Amrita Chanda, Ben Aslinger, Derek Johnson, Jonathan
Gray, Manishita Dass, Varuni Bhatia, Toy (Sharmadip Basu), Sri Nair, and
Ram Mahalingam. My family provides the kind of everyday care and love
that makes all this possible: thanks to Anita, Arvind, Mahika, Kavel, and
Vanur; Mihir and Geeta Banerjee, Somnath, Sramana, Priya, and Dhruv; and
most of all, Mandira Banerjee and Ameya Punathambekar, without whom
I would be deprived of the pleasures that make this vocation possible and
meaningful. Finally, I would not have been able to accomplish this without
my parents’ blessings. I would like to dedicate this book to my mother and in
loving memory of my father.