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Gaurab Dasgupta is a blue blooded seventy�s child, born late into the turbulant political decade in New Delhi, India. A student known for academic excellence and a strong will to succeed, this quiet child learned to embrace art, music and sports as he grew up into a new world of challenges.

Gaurab is not, by any means, your average born-to-the-inkpot writer who grew up with a passion for words. The urge to write hit this young author rather late, following the cathartic departure of his guru, friend and mentor, his father, in 2021.

At 45, and now on his second book, for Gaurab, life has found its own wonderful route, taking him from an inanimate intelligent machine to the animated wilful pen. The man has seen and traveled many shores gathering experiences and simple wisdoms across India and the Arab nations. He spent the first decade of his professional life in India and later relocated to the Middle East in 2012. For this creative nerd who works in marketing by day in Riyadh while his family stays in India, time is never a constraint in picking up something new. With Jhalmoori, the author wishes to share small, everyday insights and simple truths, which he hopes will help his readers and followers to savour and live up every moment, may they be hot, sour, bitter or sweet. Much like the iconic Jhalmoori of Calcutta, which takes it�s eternal place among the fiesty list of street foods of the world, as the one with the real *Spice of Life* !