Amitabha Bagchi was born in New Delhi and grew up there. He got his PhD in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins and moved back to New Delhi where he teaches in the Computer Science and Engineering department at IIT Delhi. His first novel, Above Average, was published in India by HarperCollins in 2007 and became a bestseller. His second novel, The Householder, has been published in India by Fourth Estate in April 2012.