Hemang Dixit

Hemang Dixit (born 11 June 1937) is a Nepalese educator, author, and consultant paediatrician.

[1] He worked as the Dean and Professor of Children's Health of the Tribhuvan University Institute of Medicine.

[2] He has written various medical textbooks, novels, children's books and poems.

Though a work of fiction, the author used the experience of his attempted murder by extortionists as a starting point for the story.

[3][4] Dixit graduated in Medicine from Charing Cross Hospital Medical School, London University.