Srinath Perur is the author of If It's Monday It Must Be Madurai (Penguin India, 2013), a book about travelling with groups. He is the translator, from Kannada to English, of Vivek Shanbhag's novel Ghachar Ghochar( Penguin USA, 2017) and the playwright Girish Karnad's memoirs This Life At Play (HarperCollins India, 2021). His writing, largely around science, travel and books, has appeared in publications including India Today, Fountain Ink, The Indian Quarterly, Guardian Cities, The Caravan, Hakai, Mosaic, n+1 andNature. He spends his time between Bengaluru and