Ehsaan Nashad is a Toronto-based author of Indian origin with an engineering degree from BITS Pilani and a background in philosophy and English. He is the author of several works including the romantic tragedy True, Lies and Hump (2011), the bestselling In Search of Love (2014), the poetry anthology PLS: Poems, Love Letters and Songs (2015), and the Bitter Half trilogy (2020). Sahib: Parables of a Companion, published by Endpoint Publishing House, collects 101 parables drawn from the spiritual journey of a companion, each distilling a moral from the encounters between a teacher, his disciples, and others.