Manil Suri, The Death of Vishnu Manil Suri was born in July, 1959 in Bombay. He studied mathematics in India and in the US, and is currently a mathematics professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He started The Death of Vishnu as a short story in 1995. An excerpt, titled The Seven Circles, was published by The New Yorker in 1998. Visit the author's site at http://www.manilsuri.com