Award-winning novelist, short story writer, poet, translator, journalist and citizen at large of Mahim, Mumbai, Jerry Pinto’s most widely appreciated novel is Em and the Big Hoom (2012), which foregrounded bipolar disorder and its effect on families ― generally a taboo subject in India. His latest books are A Good Life: The Power of Palliative Care (2025), and the translated works of the sharply edgy Hindi author Swadesh Deepak, A Bouquet of Dead Flowers: Stories and Court Martial and Other Plays (2024).