Born in Naihati (a suburban town in North 24 Parganas in West Bengal) in a family of academicians, Mallar Chatterjee had special interest in mythology right from his childhood. Shakuni and The Dice of Doom is his second book of the Mahabharata series published by Readomania. His debut novel is Yudhisthira—The Unfallen Pandava (Book 1 of the Mahabharata series).