Image from the back cover of his book " Of Men & Meher Baba " ( cropped )

Born :18 October 1931 - India

Died : 23 March 2012 - Jabalpur, India

Married : Gauri

Children : ( sons ) Meher & Aabir ( daughter )
Mehernandini

INDIAN

Photo of Hazra courtesy of TrustMeher.com

Amiya Kumar Hazra (18 October 1931 – 24 March 2012), noted
disciple of Meher Baba, was surely one of the heroes in Baba’s love. An English professor by profession, he published several Baba books in English: The
Memoirs of a Zetetic, Of Men and Meher Baba, Seekers of Love and Life is a Jest.

Trust Meher.org reported that Amiya Kumar Hazra passed away to join his Eternal Beloved on 24 March 2012 at approximately 11:00 a.m.
at his hometown of Jabalpur after a short illness. Hisis a disappointingly predictable, surprisingly jingoistic shaggy dog story about cyber crime and American party politics.

The most interesting thing about it is one half of the authorial partnership was once the President of the United States: a fascinating old job that has provided source material for this tall tale and its unexpectedly bland main protagonist.

Maybe that's the way it had to be for an ex-President writing fiction based on his experiences in office: all the interesting stuff was still too top secret to share, leaving only the most mundane aspects for us readers.

The upshot is a present-day fictional president called Jonathan Duncan, "the leader of the free world", who is perhaps the most characterless character to have ever been created in the name of fiction. It'd be wrong