Sudhir Kakar is a psychoanalyst and writer who lives in Goa, India. Sudhir Kakar's seventeen books of non-fiction and five of fiction include 'Inner World', 'Culture and Psyche', 'Shamans', 'Mystics and Doctors', 'The Analyst and the Mystic', 'The Colors of Violence' as also the novels 'The Ascetic of Desire', 'Ecstacy'. and 'Mira and the Mahatma'. His books have been translated into twenty languages around the world.
