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Manil Suri

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. 

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Mathematically Impossible

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

Manil Suri

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