Gautaman Bhaskaran is a journalist and writer, having worked in two of India’s best-regarded daily newspapers, The Statesman and The Hindu, for thirty-five years. He teaches cinema at Manipal University and English at Chennai’s Loyola College. In Adoor Gopalakrishnan: A Life in Cinema, the first authorized biography of the Dada Saheb Phalke Award winner, Gautaman Bhaskaran traces the ebbs and flows of the life of this enigmatic director.