Ankur Agarwal is from India. He holds a master’s in microprocessor systems and applications and is a gold medalist in electrical engineering (bachelor’s). Working in the publishing industry since the past five years, his other interests include cinema, languages & cultures, poetry, and the gray cyber world. He is a self-employed professional, reviews European cinema for DearCinema, and writes poetry and micro fiction/flash fiction. He even gets published occasionally! He loves traveling, playing sheepshead, bridge, bezique, and gin rummy, settling in new places, fishing out critical mistakes in manuscripts, speaking French, and walking on hill paths and seashores.

His favorite authors include Dostoyevsky, Dickens, Sir Walter Scott, RL Stevenson, and Henrik Ibsen. His favorite films include Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, Ben Hur, Children of a Lesser God, Hiroshima Mon Amour, La Guerre Est Finie, Kings Row, Blue, Red, The Subject Was Roses, and Mackenna’s Gold.