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Ranjit Divakaran
I am a native of the Indian state of Kerala. Professionally, I am a maxillofacial surgeon serving at a university hospital in Bahrain. I have lived in the Middle East, in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, ...view moreI am a native of the Indian state of Kerala. Professionally, I am a maxillofacial surgeon serving at a university hospital in Bahrain. I have lived in the Middle East, in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, and Bahrain, for almost fourteen years. This time has given me ample opportunity to see and feel the pulse of the Indian expat community and inspired me to write this book. Though this may be fiction, it is a deep reflection about Indians in Gulf countries.
Pleasure cannot exist without pain, and pain has a unique way of enhancing pleasure. But when someone’s pleasure has to arise from another’s consistent pain, something is fundamentally wrong. This is the norm for hundreds of thousands of expatriate Indians living in the Gulf countries. Their families and societies back home derive financial pleasure from an expat’s struggle, the regularity of which blurs the line between need and greed. At work, an expat’s employer squeezes every bit of his sweat and blood from him, blurring the line between use and abuse. Indians have been going to the Middle East in search of financial success for the last three or four decades. That search, though started with hope, turns out for many to be a trap with no easy exit. As years are added to a colourless life, regret replaces hope. Against this backdrop, one man struggles to achieve his dreams in Algebra of Hope.
Writing has always been something I really enjoy. I have contributed to college magazines, professional journals, and newspapers, and this is my first book. I also enjoy painting.
I obtained a degree in art from Penn Foster in Pennsylvania. I have participated in many group and solo painting exhibitions both in India and in the Middle East.
My father, who passed on in 2011, was a highly decorated army officer, and my mother was a homemaker. My wife, a dentist, works in a defence hospital in Saudi Arabia. We are blessed with two kids, Nikitha, who is studying English literature, and Nihal, who is enjoying life in ninth grade.view less