Sunil K Poolani, a journalist for the last 12 years, has worked with The Sunday Observer, The Financial Express, Blitz and The Free Press Journal in senior editorial positions. He is a senior editor with www.domain-b.com and www.prdomain.com. He can be contacted at poolani@yahoo.co.uk

He has (un?)successfully survived a decade in Bombay, the city he loathes and loves. He was born in Kerala, the southern state of India, and is a fundamentalist when it comes to protecting Kerala culture, literature and cuisine.

His major worries in his life are his liver, Archana (wife), Julie (dog) - of course not in that order - and he loves all of them though he abuses them at certain times.

He has co-authored (with Supriya Madangarli) one book in English titled Narmada Diary, and has published a collection of poems in Malayalam, his mother tongue. He has acted in street plays, wrote screenplays, and painted and sculpted some vague artforms when he was young. He was associated with a radical left-wing movement, something he considers as a joke now.

He thinks his two books will come out in a couple of months from now, and has got a couple of scapegoat publishers to do the honours. One book is a collection of his interviews with literary figures (from Olivier Todd to O V Vijayan) and the second is a collection of his investigative reports that have appeared in several publications in the last decade.

Interests: Writing, reading, journalism, whisky (at times toddy), cinema, the Internet, lazing and fooling around, living dangerously

Read some of his short stories

Surprise, surprise...
In conversation with a dog
Bombay