Siddhartha Sarma is a journalist and historian. A former investigative reporter who covered insurgency, crime, law and foreign affairs, his debut novel, The Grasshopper's Run, received the Sahitya Akademi Award, 2011, for children's literature. His most recent non-fiction work is Carpenters and Kings: Western Christianity and the Idea of India. Twilight in a knotted World is his third novel.