Pinaki Prasad Dhar, the author, enjoys a long-standing relationship with the English language as a teacher, a writer, a translator and an editor. He had the good fortune of teaching the language for the better part of half a century. Out of that, six years were spent suffering the pain of being an administrator as HOD English at St. Anthony’s College, Shillong. He had joined that college as a teacher in 1974. Retiring from the profession in 2018 from KLB College, Shillong, he came back to Kolkata, his hometown, and stays there now with his wife Monimala – also a writer of repute and an extremely able educator. His daughter and son-in-law are in Shanghai. Kolkata, the city of the birth of his consciousness, serves as the locale in Out of Joint. The heart-breaking and turbulent experiences of the late sixties and the early seventies of the last century had been with him as a sapling and then as a tree for all of fifty years. The fruit, therefore, should be ripe! Out of Joint is his second book.