Manil Suri, the author of The Death of Vishnu and The Age of Shiva, is a mathematics professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. His new novel is The City of Devi

Infinite Jest

That was what math professor Manil Suri concluded after looking over his charts and notes in the midst of writing his new novel, The City of Devi. But then he realized that, with all logical possibilities exhausted, he was free.