During his long academic career, Dinesh worked as a faculty member in a management institution and as the director of two institutions in Mumbai before retiring. He holds a Ph. D., wrote a textbook for the MBA programme and published several articles in scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, and on the social media platform – LinkedIn. Dinesh is passionate about writing on the regulation and administration of higher education. Confrontation and Conspiracy is his debut novel, in which he fictionalises incidents from his professional experiences spanning over forty years.