Ken’s love of India began when he spent a college year in Varanasi. After earning his Ph.D. in Sanskrit and Indian Studies from Harvard, he spent two years in Pune, India translating Sanskrit love poetry. In his next incarnation, Ken worked in New Delhi as a consultant to high-tech and renewable energy companies. Thereafter, he served as Special Assistant to the Dean of Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Vice President of Brandeis, and special consultant to the US Department of Energy. In 2000, Ken founded EMSI, an international green building consulting company, which pioneered the green building industry in China. His writing has appeared in the Harvard Review, The Satirist, The Woven Tale, the Vineyard Gazette, Taj Mahal Review, and the Journal of the American Oriental Society.
“Meena noticed her husband’s eyes wander to the female servant, who shuffled into the room with a serving dish of rice and a bowl of egg curry. She was seventeen, black as fudge, with large breasts and a liquid waist. At fourteen, she had been forced to marry a forty-four-year-old gold trader. Two years later, she ran away and landed at Behera House with a deep scar on her cheek and burns on her arms.”
