Sanjay Kumar is a British Indian writer. He was born in Tripura, a region known as the Seven Sister States of India, during the aftermath of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
His lifelong interest in Indo-Pakistani conflicts, the Sino-Indian War of 1962, and the Cold War is rooted in his early childhood experiences of listening to family elders reflect and debate the day's politics.
A graduate of the Dickson Poon School of Law at King's College London, he specialised in international law, human rights, and transnational criminal syndicates. Between 1993 to 1996 his research focused on a number of studies on the use and abuse of secret intelligence in modern Indian and South Asian history. Sanjay Kumar brings his research and understanding of South Asian geopolitics, the Indian mafia, China, and Indo-Pacific security issues to bear in the India-themed Hari Vandra spy novels.
“Hari Vandra, Brighton’s intrepid crime reporter, came to me in Southsea, Portsmouth. It was 2009 and not a year I look back on with undiluted pleasure. It had turned out to be an Annus Horribilis. I was keeping company with strange people in low places: filthy-fingered curryhouse crooks; tax-dodging taxi drivers operating front companies; legal high shops selling exotic designer drugs; and a pot-bellied bent copper with bad breath on the take. Baksheesh was the name of the game. I learnt my lessons and returned home to my beloved Brighton. During long walks in Stanmer Park and the South Downs, the character of Hari Vandra began to galvanise. Lodhi Road: The Puntland Assignment is the debut Hari Vandra story. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I’ve loved writing it.”
A resident of Sussex since 1978, Sanjay Kumar currently lives near a nature reserve in the historical Regency city of Brighton in the English county of East Sussex.
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