Shapoor BatliwallaShapoor Batliwalla was born in Mumbai, India in the 1950s, a halcyon and happy period in Indian history, following the discovery of Penicillin and before the advent of the IPL. He attended 6 schools in 5 different countries although he is adamant thi was more an outcome of his family's nomadic existence than any particular scholastic ineptitude. His only notable achievement through his entire boyhood appears to be that he once bowled 6 balls to Sir Geoff Boycott at the Royal Bangkok Sports Club cricket nets before being advised to take up Scrabble instead. In his 20s, Mr Batliwalla moved to Australia and loathing real work of any sort, turned to Australian TV and Cinema, playing a string of doctors, lawyers and assorted head-wobbling sub-continentals; minor character roles hardly substantial enough to satisfy stomach or soul. In time, as his daughters grew vocal enough to demand regular if not daily feeding, he was compelled to seek more reliable and regular employment. This he did by joining a leading Melbourne advertising agency as a copywriter. For the next 40 years, he managed to avoid scrutiny or detection by the simple yet long-heralded advertising tradition of going out to an early lunch and staying there. Eventually discovered hiding under a desk in 2018, he was summarily despatched into the timeless morass of tedium called retirement where he attempted to pass the time by writing, for the first time ever, without the misinformation of a brief, the misguidance of a planner or the misdirections of a client. Mr Batliwalla lives in Melbourne with his two daughters, two sons-in-law, two mortgages, two dogs, and two cats. He has however, in perhaps the only wise move of his entire life, limited himself to one wife. Read More Read Less