Rakesh Agrawal 'Ridh'

The author, Rakesh Agrawal, has earned a doctorate thesis in international affairs from Jawaharlal Nehru University in 1995, now lives in Dehradun, where he writes grassroots developmental stories and carries out documentation on natural resource: land, water & forest, for voluntary sector and people’s groups, besides writing poems and short stories.

More than 17 years ago, in April 2003, he met with an accident and suffered with head injury, because of which he is paralytic from the left side of his body, but it hasn’t affected his jest and desire to travel to the remote corners of the country, meet people there and write about their dreams and desires!