Stories Behind the Faces is Yasir Rizvi's debut book: a collection of short stories, an anthology of interconnected true accounts gathered across a lifetime of travel. It began with a simple conviction, that with billions of people on earth, there is a history behind every face, and most of those histories never get told.

From the banks of the Nile to strangers met in cities he would never forget, Yasir writes down the lives he crossed paths with. Each chapter is a face, and each face is a life lesson: in trust, in determination, in humility, and in love. The result is part travelogue, part literary fiction, a meditation on what makes us human across cultures.

One of the few short story books by an Indian writer that spans continents rather than a single culture, Stories Behind the Faces sits alongside the great traditions of Indian short stories while reaching far beyond them. Written by a procurement and supply chain leader who spends his days in boardrooms and his evenings in airports, the book is a reminder that the most important things are never on the spreadsheet. They are in the people standing behind it.