Kriben Pillay is an associate professor in the Leadership Centre, University of KwaZulu-Natal, and is a writer across many genres. His poems appear in four South African anthologies, and his short stories appear in two. He was a finalist for the Bertrams African Literature Award in 1992, and was nominated for the 1995 CNA Literary Prize for his play Looking for Muruga, which now appears in a historic collection of plays from the South Asian diaspora – Beyond Bollywood and Broadway –  published by the University of Indiana Press (2009). His writings on nondual consciousness feature in a number of international publications. His latest scholarly work is Nondualism and Educational Drama and Theatre: A Perspective for Transformative Training. In 2009 Kriben presented Brain Scam –  an exploration of illusion and consciousness –  at the Third International Conference on Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts.