Born on April 1st, 1952, Alexander Raju began his career as a freelance journalist as early as 1974, after completing his higher studies in the Universities of Kerala and Saugar, Madhya Pradesh. Touring almost every nook and corner of India, he acquired a firsthand knowledge of the Indian ways of life among various ethnic groups who differed totally in their culture, religion and language. When Sikkim became the twenty-second State of India, he joined the staff of Sikkim Express as one of its sub-editors and later became the editor of Bullet, a newsweekly published from Gangtok. “A decade of my wanderings through the length and breadth of India and my not too brief sojourn in the Himalayan Valley gave me an everlasting mine of ideas and a continuous source of inspiration that would last a whole lifespan of a creative writer,” says the author.

Returning to his native state of Kerala, he worked as a lawyer for a short while. In 1981, he joined the Faculty of English at Baselius College, Kottayam, Kerala, his own alma mater, as a lecturer. During 1996 to 1999, he worked as an Inspector of English, giving training to English teachers, under the Ministry of Education, Sultanate of Oman. For three years, from 2006 to 2009, he served as Associate Professor of English in Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia. Currently he is Professor of English in Al Fateh University, Tripoli, Libya.

Alexander Raju, an Indian English critic, poet, novelist, short story writer and columnist, has many books to his credit. Ripples and Pebbles (1989), Sprouts of Indignation (2003) and Magic Chasm (2007) are collections of his poems. His first novel The Haunted Man came out in 1996 and its second edition in 2009. Upon This Bank and Shoal, a philosophical novel, came out in 2008. The Psycho-Social Interface in British Fiction (2000) is a critical work. The Voice of Ethiopia and Other Pieces of Literature, an edited work came out in 2008.