Dr. Umesh Shrivastava is a teacher, entrepreneur, and unapologetic questioner of life’s grand illusions. After a decade running a manufacturing unit that supplied hydropower giants, he discovered resilience is learned not in classrooms but on noisy shop floors where a 0.02 mm error can cost everything. His research explores how disadvantaged entrepreneurs survive chaos, but his writing takes a darker, funnier turn—skewering our obsessions with God, success, and self-help. A lifelong reader and wanderer of ideas, he writes with equal parts sarcasm and sincerity. The Art of Dying Before You’re Dead is his debut, daring readers to laugh at life’s seriousness.