As Time Goes By

Geoff Dyer’s many books include the novel Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi; But Beautiful (about jazz); Out of Sheer Rage (about DH. Lawrence); Yoga For People Who Can’t Be Bothered To Do It; The Last Days of Roger Federer and, most recently, Homework, a memoir. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College,  Oxford and a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. His books have won numerous prizes and have been translated into 26 languages. After 10 years as Writer-in-Residence at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, he has recently returned to live in London.

Arunabha Deb is Managing Partner of Avijit Deb Partners, a Kolkata-based law firm. He takes an interest in Hindustani music, on which he has written for multiple publications in India. He graduated in English Literature from St Stephen’s College, Delhi and obtained his LLB at Campus Law Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Delhi. He learnt to play the sarod under the tutelage of Pandit Buddhadev Das Gupta. Though an artiste with All India Radio, self-assessment prevents him from performing anywhere.