Described by Khushwant Singh as India’s Art Buchwald, Jug Suraiya is perhaps best known for his free-wheeling column, ‘Jugular Vein’, which appears every Friday on the editorial page of the Times of India.  He also writes a weekly contrarian column on topical issues, called ‘Second Opinion’, which appears every Wednesday, also on the editorial page of Tthe Times of India, in which he deals with social, literary and political themes.

Among his many avatars, he is—together with artist Neelabh Banerjee—the co-creator of the comic strip Duniya Ke Neta, which appears daily in the Times of India. A separate collaboration with cartoonist Ajit Ninan has seen the creation of Like That Only, a twice-weekly cartoon commenting on our life and times.

He is the author of several books and his previous titles include Mind Matters, a collection of editorial page articles; Juggling Act, an anthology of humorous writings; Calcutta: a city remembered; and A Tika for Jung Bahadur, a collection of short stories.

His most recent book, JS & The Times of My Life: a worm’s eye view of Indian journalism, a recounting of his 44 years in journalism, is now available in bookshops and online.

An inveterate traveller, Jug Suraiya is the first Asian to have won the Grand Prize for Travel Writing awarded by the Pacific Area Travel Association (PATA).

He lives in Gurgaon with his wife, Bunny.