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Abhijit Sen
Abhijit Sen received the Bankimchandra Memorial Award for Rahu Chandaler Haar (1985) in 1992 and the Saratchandra Memorial Award from the University of Calcutta in 2005 and 2022 for his contribution to Bengali literature. Some of his widely known...
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Akshay Shroff
Akshay Shroff has served as the Administrator and Secretary General of the Indian Jaycees (now known as JCI India). He is a marketing professional and advertising and marketing consultant for several leading domestic and international media titles,...
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Amal Sarkar
Currently Executive Editor of The Wall, Amal Sarkar earlier worked for The Times of India, Eyi Samay, Bartaman, Aajkaal, Pratidin, Karma Kshetra, Bharatakatha and Aakashvani. He started writing from the time he did his MA in Journalism at Calcutta...
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Amar Mitra
Born on the 30th of August 1951, in village Dhulihar, near Satkhira, Bangladesh, he is regarded as one of the doyens of the contemporary literary field of short stories and novels. His first short story was published in 1974. Since then he has been...
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Amitava Nag
Amitava Nag is an independent film critic based in Kolkata and editor of Silhouette.
His most recent books on cinema are 75 Years 75 Films: India’s Cinematic Journey and The Cinema of Mrinal Sen: A Quest for the Unresolved (edited). His other books...
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Amrita D Mitter
Amrita D. Mitter is a social entrepreneur with a degree in law and a strong advocate for providing women with a secure and inclusive workspace. In her debut novel, she brings to life a world where women and men stand shoulder to shoulder, creating...
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Aniket Mishra
An MPhil in Comparative Literature from University of Delhi, Aniket Mishra currently works for the Asian Football Confederation. He was Head of Media for the Local Organising Committee of the U-17 World Cup in India, which in October 2017 became the...
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Anindita Banerji
Anindita Banerji has been writing and directing plays in three languages for two decades. This is her second book of plays after Life, Music, Action!, brought out by Writers Workshop, Kolkata.
Anindita likes to write grand musicals on universal...
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Antara Nanda Mondal
The Founder-Editor of Blue Pencil, a New Delhi-based publishing house, Antara wears many hats. A former business journalist, Antara writes extensively on the changing trends of music in cinema. She is Editor in Chief, ‘Learning and Creativity’ and...
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Aparna Singh
Dr Aparna Singh is an Assistant Professor of English at Diamond Harbour Women’s University. She has taught in various educational institutions across Kolkata in the last decade. Her area of interest includes Indian Writing in English and Dalit...
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Arin Banerjee
Arin loves to create new stories from his experiences and feelings. He expresses himself through his drawings and paintings.
He is passionate about cars and vehicles and enjoys making various kinds of LEGO robots, cars, aircraft’s and spaceships....
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Arinjay Ghosh
An MSc in Sports Industry Management from Emlyon Business School in France, Arinjay currently works in the media department for the Local Organising Committee of the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup India 2022. Previously, he served as Team Lead of the...
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Arpita Basak
Arpita Basak, an Early Childhood educator from Hong Kong, has been living in this lively city for the past eighteen years. She is a teacher, providing foundation for quality education to the young minds. She is a mother of two beautiful daughters....
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Asavari Bose
Asavari Bose is a Poet, Artist, Chef and the author and illustrator of My Thoughts and I: A Love Story, her debut collection of poems. She’s a lover of the Arts, be it literature, painting, music or Culinary.
She spent the better part of her life...
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Bimal Chadha
Born on February 21, 1946, in Rawalpindi, Undivided India, Bimal Chadha’s formative years unfolded across diverse Indian locations due to his father’s army postings.
His successful marketing career included notable roles at media giants...
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Binayak Bandyopadhyay
Binayak Bandyopadhyay who is widely accepted as one of the most promising young poets of India is now also regarded as the changing face of Bengali fiction. Binayak has received several awards for his poems and novels including the prestigious West...
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Biplab Ghosh
Biplab Ghosh is a multi-award winning, well-known poet and author who has several best selling Bengali books to his credit. MY LIFE MY WAY is his first English book written in an autobiographical format about his chequered life, marked at every step...
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Chandana Khan
She adores art as much as she does her work, be at cooking, writing or anything creative. Wondering who it is? Yes, it is none other than the dynamic retired IAS officer Chandana Khan, who has created a special place in the head of Hyderabadis. Born...
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Debanjan Chakrabarti
Debanjan Chakrabarti, 1957 born, an outstanding Bengali writer, had started writing in his teens. His eight volumes of poems, six volumes of short stories, three novels, and one travelogue have been appreciated by a wide section of readers. His...
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Debarun Ray
Starting from the seventies. Daily life of a journalist. Before that writing stories and poetry in Little Magazine. There was no such attempt to be a reporter. But the day of becoming one turned the corner. With fame, the love for the profession...
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Deepak Kumar Chattopadhyay
Deepak Kumar Chattopadhyay was working in the Army Education Department for a long time. He actively participated in the Indo-Pak War (1965) and the Bangladesh War of Independence (1971). Inspired by his wife Kaveri Chattopadhyay’s original...
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Dipesh Dipu
Dipesh Dipu is strategy and finance consultant with Jenissi Management Consultants, an entrepreneurial venture that works in the field of energy, infrastructure, and resources in India and abroad. He is a mining engineering graduate from the Indian...
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Dr Amit Shankar Saha
Amit Shankar Saha is a short story writer and poet. He is the author of three collections of poems, two non-fiction books and has co-edited a collection of short stories. His works have been included in Best Indian Poetry 2018, the Yearbook of...
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Dr Asit Kar
Dr Asit Kar is a famous General and Vascular Surgeon based in UK for more than 5 decades. He has had many accolades and awards in his medico life, significant being a gold medalist in medicine from RG Kar Medical College, Kolkata. Coming from a...
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Dr Bijay Patni
Dr. Bijay Patni, a distinguished Senior Physician, has dedicated his career to the field of diabetes and cardiometabolic health. With decades of hands-on experience in private practice and notable roles as a visiting consultant at respected...
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Dr Jonaki Mukherjee
Dr Jonaki Mukherjee is an award-winning educator who has spent over two decades teaching children of diverse age groups across multiple Indian cities. She is a certified counsellor from Stonebridge University, London. She has authored two books...
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Dr Nazrul Islam
Dr. Nazrul Islam holds an MBA from Jadavpur University and a PhD and D.Litt from the University of Calcutta. He is a retired IPS officer and the founder Chairman of Basantapur Education Society, which has established several schools and colleges.
He...
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Dr Sabarna Roy
Dr Sabarna Roy is a senior engineering professional, multi-award winning author, TEDX Speaker and an avid traveller by choice. As an industry leader he has worked across a plethora of organisations in senior position: as Senior Vice President...
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Dr Soumita Mitra
Dr. Soumita Mitra, is originally from Taki district of North 24 Parganas. She graduated in History from Victoria Institution College. She did her MA in Ancient Indian History and Culture from the University of Calcutta and her MPhil from the...
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Dr Tania Chakravertty
Academic turned administrator, critic, author and translator, Chakravertty is currently the Dean of Students Welfare, Diamond Harbour Women’s University.
Educated at Presidency College and Calcutta University, she has formerly taught UG and PG...
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Dustin Pickering
Dustin Pickering is the founder of Transcendent Zero Press. He has contributed writing to Huffington Post, The Statesman (India), The Colorado Review, World Literature Today, Asymptote, and several other publications. He was given the honor of...
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Gargi Roychowdhury
Gargi Roychowdhury was born in Kolkata in 1973. She completed her Ph.D. from the University of Calcutta in 2008. Since 2005, she has been professionally engaged in the field of public health and social epidemiology in India and abroad. She received...
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Geetha Shankar
Geetha Shankar is the Founder-Director of Center for Communication Excellence, Bengaluru, and National President, Public Relations Council of India (PRCI). A graduate from Mount Carmel College, she did her post graduation in Economics and has an...
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Gopal Lahiri
Gopal Lahiri is a bilingual poet, critic, editor, writer, and translator with 29 books published, (10 books in Bengali and 19 books in English) including six solo/jointly edited books and two joint books. His poetry and prose are published across...
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HQ Chowdhury
HQ Chowdhury is a freelance writer mostly on events and people covering the time frame of the 30s to 80s of the last century. He first wrote in the late 60s for the People, an English daily from Dhaka and then in the early 70s for Cine Advance,...
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Ipsita Ganguli
Ipsita Ganguli continues to wear many hats, but above all, she has, and will always be a student of the myriad experiences that life holds out. Ipsita writes…because she “must”. Her poems have been published in several national and...
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Isabella Dipesh
Twelve year old Isabella loves to write short stories. Her mission is to hold children spellbound with her stories. Princess Chinni Goes to School is her second published book which she hopes will evoke a love of reading in her young readers.
Jagari Mukherjee
Jagari Mukherjee is a gold medalist in English Literature, a Best of the Net 2018 nominee, a DAAD scholar from Technical University, Dresden, Germany, and a Bear River alumna. Her poems and other creative pieces have been published in different...
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K Shivalingappa Handihal
Dr. K. Shivalingappa Handihal has won the Sahitya Akademi’s Bal Sahitya Puraskar for the year 2025, in the Kannada category, for his anthology of children’s stories titled Notebook.
The Bala Sahitya Puraskar is the highest Indian literary award at...
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Kaberi Chattopadhyay
I am Kaberi Chattopadhyay, born and brought up in the state of Assam, renowned for its bewitching natural bounties. I did my schooling from Assam and completed my graduation B.A.(Hons) from Calcutta University. Peeping Through My Window narrates the...
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Krrish Mishra
Krrish Mishra is eight years old and lives in London, England with his parents, Debadutta Mishra and Priyanka Rath. Krrish goes to an Independent Boys school in Harrow, and is an avid reader.
From a young age, he has pursued creative studies –...
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Kumar Rana
Besides writing stories and essays, Kumar Rana also translated from Saotali, English and Hindi into Bengali. He has been involved in field research work on education, health, population, etc. for three decades. Graduated from Harvard Medical School...
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Lata Jagtiani
Lata Jagtiani has an MA in English Literature. She has authored 8 books — Guide, The Film: Perspectives, Temple Bells and Other Stories, Bhagavad Gita in 365 Days, Towards Light, Sindhi Reflections, Mumbai Terror Attacks, O P Nayyar, King of Melody...
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Lopamudra Banerjee
Lopamudra Banerjee is an author, poet, translator, editor with several critically acclaimed books and anthologies in fiction, nonfiction and poetry. She has received the Journey Awards (First Place category winner) for her memoir Thwarted Escape: An...
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Madhumay Pal
১৯৫২ সালে সাবেক পূর্ববঙ্গে জন্ম।
ভাষা আন্দোলনের বছর। সে বছর অন্তত দু-লাখ বাঙালি হিন্দু পূর্বের ভিটেমাটি থেকে উৎখাত হয়ে পশ্চিমে আসেন। মধুময়দের পরিবার সেই দুই লাখের কয়েকজন। প্রথম কুড়ি বছর কেটেছে কলকাতায় ক্যাম্পে, বস্তিতে। বাকিটা হুগলি জেলার ভদ্রেশ্বরে...
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Manek Premchand
Manek Premchand is a passionate aficionado of Hindi film music, with a special devotion to the Golden Era—from the mid-1940s to the late 1960s. He has taught Broadcasting and Visual Communications at St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai, and has conducted...
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Manjusri Bhattacharya
Gopal Lahiri is a bilingual poet, critic, editor, writer, and translator with 29 books published, (10 books in Bengali and 19 books in English) including six solo/jointly edited books and two joint books. His poetry and prose are published across...
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Mrinal Ghosh
Mrinal Ghosh is a Kolkata-based writer on the arts and a regular columnist and freelance art-critic in Ananda Bazar Patrika. His research on modern Indian painting and sculpture, specially the paintings of Ganesh Pyne, has been well acclaimed by art...
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Naheed Akhtar
Naheed Akhtar, an Assistant Professor of English, pursuing her PhD in ELT, and a bilingual poet, lives in the vibrant city of Hyderabad in Southern India. With a profound passion for poetry, Naheed has carved a niche for herself in the literary...
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Nanak Ganguly
Nanak Ganguly is an independent curator and art critic based in Kolkata. He has curated numerous exhibitions both in India and internationally, and has served on the selection committees for various international projects, including SITU-I and ELV...
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Nishi Pulugurtha
Nishi Pulugurtha is an academic, author and poet based in Kolkata. Her publications include a collection of essays on travel, Out in the Open; an edited volume of essays on travel, Across and Beyond; two volumes of poems, The Real and the Unreal and...
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Pankaj Saini
Gopal Lahiri is a bilingual poet, critic, editor, writer, and translator with 29 books published, (10 books in Bengali and 19 books in English) including six solo/jointly edited books and two joint books. His poetry and prose are published across...
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Partha Banerjee
Dr. Partha Bandyopadhyay has lived in the USA for 35 years. He is a well-known face of the labor, immigrant, environmental and anti-war movements there. After getting a PhD in Biology from the University of Illinois, he left science and studied...
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Partha Pratim Roy
Partha Pratim Roy is an artist, author, editor and art curator. He had curated the exhibition on Jamini Roy in Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad in 2015. Roy has co-edited the book Kaaler Probahe Bangladesh and his articles have been published in various...
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Patralekha Nath
Completing her post-graduate studies in Bengali literature from Calcutta University, Patralekha Nath proved her love for history by making history a subject of research. ‘The Influence of Indigo Rebellion on Bengali Literature’ – her research paper...
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Rajendra Khandelwal
Rajendra Khandelwal describes himself as an ordinary human being with extraordinary feelings for the suffering humanity. He is a true social worker and a successful entrepreneur, heading a chain of pharmacies named “Dhanwantary, which he...
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Rajorshi Patranabis
Rajorshi Patranabis is a multilingual poet, translator and editor delving into myriad forms of poetry. A food consultant by profession, and a Wiccan by philosophy, his collections boast of supernatural and metaphysical love poems (Crossover-love...
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Ramendra Kumar
Ramendra Kumar (Ramen) is an award-winning writer, a storyteller and an inspirational speaker with 38 books. His writings have been translated into 29 languages – both Indian and foreign. He has won 34 awards in the competition for writers of...
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Rhiti Chatterjee Bose
Rhiti is a forever old soul, lover of vintage Bollywood songs and a coffee addict. When she is not running after her two adorable children, she finds solace in art and books. She is an artist, writer and social entrepreneur based in Bhubaneswar,...
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Rituparna Khan
Rituparna Khan, by profession, is an academic. Presently she is posted at Bidhannagar College, Salt Lake, Kolkata and is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography. She is also a Rotarian (Member of Rotary Club of Calcutta Centenary). By...
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Sakti Sadhan Mukhopadhyay
১৯৫১ সালে মামার বাড়ি পাঁচড়ায় জন্ম। গ্রাম- জুতিহাটি, কেওটাড়া, পূর্ব বর্ধমান। পড়াশুনা – ঝাপানডাঙা পরেশনাথ বিদ্যামন্দির, পাঁচড়া সাগরচন্দ্র রক্ষিত। স্মৃতি বিদ্যামন্দির, বর্ধমান রাজ কলেজ, বর্ধমান বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়। হোমিওপ্যাথি ডিসপেনসারিতে কম্পাউন্ডারি...
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Sangam Banerjee
Sangam Banerjee is an experimental condensed matter physicist with extensive experience in studying the chemical and physical properties of bulk materials, thin films, nanomaterials, and bio-sensors. He has published numerous peer-reviewed journal...
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Sanjib Chaudhuri
Born in 1950, Calcutta. An avid global traveller, the author’s first love is the forest. Amidst his high-profile corporate responsibilities in India and abroad, he also pursued creative outlets like pen sketches, paintings, photography, and...
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Sanjukta Dasgupta
Dr. Sanjukta Dasgupta, Former Head, and Former Dean Faculty of Arts, Calcutta University Dept. of English, has been the recipient of the Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship and Fulbright Scholar in Residence grant, Australia India Council fellowship,...
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Santosh Bakaya
A die-hard believer in Martin Luther King Jr’s Dream and John Lennon’s Imagine, award-winning poet, academic, essayist, novelist, biographer, TEDx Speaker, and creative writing mentor, Santosh Bakaya, Ph.D., has been critically acclaimed for her...
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Satbir Chadha
Satbir Chadha was born in Naini Tal to a prosperous business family. Early schooling was a scattered experience but she finished school from the St. Teresa’s Convent High School, Santa Cruz, Bombay and went to college in Sophia College...
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Shagufta Hanaphie
Shagufta Hanaphie ie a living example of the famous song: The Winner Takes It All. Whatever challenge was thrown on her path, she could turn it into a success story like a winner. No wonder she has followed many such inspiring real-life stories of...
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Sharanya Banerjee
Sharanya Banerjee, who is known as Rimli at home, lives in Texas, USA with her family. She is almost 10 years old and will be in fifth grade soon. She won Honorable Mention at the Kappa Theta Writing Project of Lewisville ISD, Texas for her short...
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Shawkat Osman
Shawkat Osman, is a retired industrialist, has a passion for culinary art, swimming, adda-baji, and travelling. He wrote nine cookbooks (6 English & 3 Bengali), published in Bangladesh and India. Hosted and cooked in three TV cook shows, both in...
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Shiladitya Sarkar
Shiladitya Sarkar is a writer, painter, and art critic based in Mumbai.
His previous books include Thirst of a Minstrel, Abstract Reality, and Day’s End Stories: Life After Sundown in Small-Town India, an anthology where he is one of the featured...
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Shivaji Sengupta
Shivaji Sengupta’s life journey took him from the fast-paced world of corporate leadership in Mumbai to a more grounded calling as a Social Entrepreneur in Kolkata. He was a corporate leader, with a career marked by leadership, innovation, and...
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Shubhang Saurav
A content writer and project manager by day at a Toronto-based digital marketing agency, Shubhang has written for various websites, forums, and social media platforms under the pen name ‘Ronin’ and continues doing so.
Shubhang also goes by the pen...
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Smita Tiwari
Smita Tiwari holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering. She worked as a Technical Evangelist in Infosys Limited.
Despite her background in science and a successful career, Smita had always been captivated by...
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Sonali Chanda
Sonali Chanda is an eminent poet/writer/reviewer from Kolkata, India. She pursued her Post-graduate degree in English literature and language from Burdwan University. At present, she is pursuing her Ph.D. in Post-modern English Language, the...
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Soumyanetra
Soumyanetra is currently a faculty member of the Economic Research Unit (ERU) at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Kolkata. Previously she has held faculty positions at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) Mumbai and the...
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Sourodeep Sarkar
Born in the vibrant city of Calcutta and studying at the esteemed Don Bosco School (Kolkata), Sourodeep Sarkar (15) is your average GenZ teenager eager to establish his view of this world. Hypnotized by the elegant English of the Shakespearean era...
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Srijan De Sarker
Srijan De Sarker, born 4th September 1997 is a Research Fellow at The Asiatic Society. Currently a researcher at Jadavpur University, Department of Bengal, Srijan began writing at the age of 8. Starting with Anandabazar newspaper, Srijan has written...
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Subrata Kumar Das
২০১৩ সাল থেকে কানাডার টরন্টোতে সপরিবার অভিবাসী সুব্রতকুমার দাসের জন্ম বাংলাদেশের ফরিদপুর জেলার কামারখালীতে; ১৯৬৪ সালের ৪ মার্চ। ২০১৮ সালে আমেরিকার নিউ জার্সি শহর থেকে গায়ত্রী গ্যামার্স মেমোরিয়াল পুরস্কার লাভ করেন তিনি। ২০২৩ সালে আয়োজিত কানাডার...
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Suman Chattopadhyay
Suman Chattopadhyay started his career in journalism in 1981, in Aajkal. Till today, he has fulfilled many responsibilities in Anandabazar, ABP Anand, Kolkata TV, Tara Bangla, his own paper Ekdin and finally in Ei Samay. He has created a unique...
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Sumantra Chattopadhyay
Born in 1969, graduated from Jadavpur University, Sumantra is mainly known as a playwright and author of short stories. He has also directed quite a few short fiction films and documentaries. Sumantra has also penned a number of articles and...
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Supratik Chakraborty
Supratik Chakraborty was born and raised in the small rural town of Burdwan, West Bengal, India. After his schooling, he moved to the great metropolis of Calcutta and spent ten wonderful years at Calcutta Medical College, studying medicine. While...
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Tapan Kumar Ghosh
Dr. Tapan Kumar Ghosh is former Head of Department of English, Rabindra Bharti University and has participated as a speaker in various seminars abroad. His stories have been published and appreciated in various magazines in London and America.
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Trishna Basak
Trishna Basak, born in 1970, Kolkata, is a notable poet, story writer, novelist and essayist of modern Bengali Literature. A B.E. and M.Tech from Jadavpur University, Trishna left her lucrative career to pursue her passion for literature. Her 5 year...
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Trishna Saha
Trishna Saha is a 16-year-old writer who has completed her CBSE class 10 from Jubilee Hills Public School and is presently studying Psychology, History and Fashion from Glendale Academy. When she isn’t writing or reading her favourite fantasy and...
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Virasat Art Publications
Virasat Art Publication is a Kolkata-based multilingual publisher and distributor. Virasat Art publishes books on visual arts, literature, history, philosophy, science and other topics and various languages including English and Bengali.