Niti Sampat Patel has a Ph.D in Literature and Cinema Studies from New York University and has taught both film and literature in the USA and India. Her first book, Postcolonial Masquerades: Culture and Politics in Literature, Film, Video and Photography was published by Garland/Routledge in 2001. Subsequently she was part of the editorial team for the Encyclopedia of South Asian Writing published by Greenwood Press and has contributed scholarly articles to various anthologies and journals around the world. She lives and writes in Bombay and the US and is currently working on her second novel, The Color of Sunset. Write to Niti