A banking and finance professional, an engineer & MBA, by accident, from a peppy part of Mumbai, Upendra Namburi has taken his love for numbers and turned it into a success story spanning a chequered career of 15 years in banking, finance and FMCG sectors. Upendra is married and has a son. He currently lives in Gurgaon, but remains a Mumbaikar at heart. He first bit the writing bug when he was invited by one of India’s leading finance dailies – Mint – to write for it. It turned into a love affair that has turned him into an avid blogger and finally made him take the plunge into the unchartered waters of the written word. Upendra now devotes his time to take complex and dry ideas like loans, foreclosures etc and turn them into nail-biting thrillers which make the same numbers come alive. But he really hasn’t shifted his focus too far away and still thinks of his books as numbers: 31, 60, 8 and so on. ‘Thirty one’ is his first in the series.