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Author Highlight: Rajat Mitra Discusses his New Book ‘The Infidel Next Door’ and Stories from his Life

We are back with another author interview. Today, with us, we have Rajat Mitra – the author of ‘The Infidel Next Door’. In this interview, Rajat Mitra talks about his writing aspirations, the route to getting his book published, and his inclination towards humanity. Stay on...while we chat with him. Kindly tell us a bit about you. I am a Clinical Psychologist and have worked primarily with rights based issues of abuse and trauma, human rights, disability and mental illness of youth. At the start of my career I worked in a therapeutic center for schizophrenics, subsequently in prisons with violent offenders and finally I started an organization for providing care for traumatized individuals who were victims of heinous crimes and with human rights workers who face persecution across different countries of Asia. My work has been in unconventional surroundings where I have worked with the marginalized and traumatized people all my life. It was also mostly in situations that...