Sudarshan Srinivasan, ‘Suds’ to his friends is a teenage author. A voracious reader since childhood, he has always been interested in writing. A few years back, he bagged the first prize for the most creative writer in an interschool competition held in Bangalore. All these have fructified eventually into this book ‘The man behind the shadow’, a crime thriller novella, at the age of 16. It offers a glimpse into the young author’s fertile imagination and the scope of his immense talent.

Sudarshan is an avid football enthusiast and plays with his friends when time permits. His other hobbies include listening to western music, making funny videos, and of course reading a variety of books and writing. He intends to pursue computer science and writing.

He lives in Bangalore with his parents who run a charitable foundation for educating underprivileged kids to which he has pledged all the proceeds from this book.