Akhil Kakkar is the Founder and Chief Storyteller at Dufer.in. He has an M.A. in Creative Writing from Brunel University (London) and an M.Sc. in Management from Lancaster University (UK). He was also the writer-in-residence at Burren College of Art (Ireland) in 2017. His work has been published in Bangalore Mirror, Scroll, The Criterion, Voices From The Attic, The Madras Mag and Arré.