Roshan Ali is a novelist and a writer. He dropped out of college to write his critically acclaimed debut novel Ib’s Endless Search for Satisfaction which was published in 2019 and was shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Literature, The Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize and the Mathrabhumi Book of the Year Award. His work, fiction and non-fiction, has appeared in Scroll, The Indian Express, The Hindu, Reader’s Digest, Verve Magazine and Huffington Post India. He lives in Bangalore with his wife and their three dogs.