Arka Mukhopadhyay is a writer, scribbler, researcher, music composer, photographer, and procrastinator from Howrah, India. He has given up a career in media journalism to pursue a funded PhD in doomsday literature. When he is not knee-deep in a book he scarcely understands, he makes punk music with his friends in a collective called Bisher Doshok. His favorite pastime includes sleeping, cooking, watching documentaries, and chasing stray cats.