Sudhir Kakar is a psychoanalyst and writer. He has been a Professor of Organizational Behaviour, IIMA, Head of Department of Humanities, IIT, Delhi, Lecturer at Harvard University, Research Fellow at Harvard Business School, Visiting Professor at the universities of Chicago, McGill, Melbourne, Hawaii, Vienna, Adjunct Professor, INSEAD (1994- 2014), Fellow at the Institutes of Advanced Study, Princeton, Berlin and Cologne. His many honors include the Bhabha, Nehru, ICSSR National Fellowships, Kardiner Award of Columbia University, Boyer Prize for Psychological Anthropology of the American Anthropological Association, Germany’s Goethe Medal, Merck-Tagore Award and Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, the country’s highest civilian honour. Kakar is the author/editor of eighteen books of non-fiction and six novels. His books have been translated into 20 languages.