Parimal Bhattacharya is a Kolkata-based bilingual writer who writes in Bangla and English, in a genre that mixes fiction and non-fiction, on subjects ranging from a remote Odisha tribe's fight for survival to Andrei Tarkovsky's cinematic art. He is an associate professor of English in West Bengal Education Service, currently posted at Maulana Azad College, Kolkata. Parimal went to teach in the Government College in Darjeeling in the 1990s and was smitten by the Himalaya. He has not recovered since; instead, he has written two books set in the mountains. He has also been a regular contributor to The Telegraph and Frontier. Parimal likes to divide his time between the city and Bhatpara, an ancient small town by the river Hooghly, where his ancestors had migrated four centuries ago from north India.