Nilotpal Kumar Dutta, a sales professional with around 25 years of experience in the Indian IT Industry, has worked with some of the biggest names in the business. An avid reader and a mechanical engineer from BITS, Ranchi, he grew up in the mining town Dhanbad, where his imagination ran riot along with the events and characters he read about. His first book, ‘In Retrospect’, largely based on personal experiences, was well received. Outsiders are Everywhere is his first novel. Nilotpal lives in Bangalore with his wife.