Dilip D’Souza has had a global education, including at Pilani, Providence, Delhi, Rishi Valley, Bombay, Cambridge, Austin. Once a computer scientist, he now writes about political and social issues, travel, sports and mathematics. He has won several awards, including the Statesman Rural Reporting award, the Outlook/Picador non-fiction prize and the Newsweek/Daily Beast South Asia Commentary Prize. He has published eight books, most recently The Deoliwallahs: The True Story of the 1962 Chinese-Indian Internment, in 2020.