Gaurav S. Bedi works alongside his father on every stage of a manuscript, and the sourcing on this book carries his fingerprints. He hunts articles the slow way, checking a claim across several records before it earns a place in a chapter, and he keeps the citation trail clean enough that a reader can walk it themselves. The bibliography at the back of this book is the visible half of that work.
Non-fiction is where he writes by choice. He is drawn to history, and inside history to the moments that decide what a generation of young people can become: the reforms that opened a door, the pressures that closed one, the arguments young citizens were expected to win on their own.
His other work sits somewhere unexpected for a legal research desk. He builds art and writes scenes for video games made for children, on the view that a child absorbs a moral problem faster through a story they can move around in than through a paragraph they are told to read.