Sasthi Brata

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Sasthibrata Chakravarti (1939–2015), known as Sasthi Brata, was a British-Indian Indo-Anglian writer of fiction. He is best known for his best selling novel Confessions of an Indian Woman Eater.

Early life and education[edit]

Sasthibrata was educated at Calcutta Boys' School, Kolkata and then at Presidency College, Kolkata, then affiliated with the University of Calcutta.[1][2][3]

Post literary career[edit]

Sasthibrata lived a checkered life. After his literary career, he had worked as a salesman for air conditioners, a lavatory attendant, a postman, a kitchen porter, to supplement his pension.[4] He died in 2015 at the age of 75.

Bibliography[edit]

  • My God Died Young
  • Confessions of an Indian Woman Eater
  • India: Labyrinths in the Lotus Land
  • Traitor to India: A search for home
  • India: The Perpetual Paradox

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "Seven types of Calcutta". The Telegraph. 21 December 2008. Retrieved 8 April 2010.
  2. ↑ COMANS, GRACE P (3 November 1968). "His World Divided". Hartford Courant. 3 November 1968. Retrieved 8 April 2010.
  3. ↑ "Sasthi Brata Biography". biography.jrank.org. Retrieved 8 April 2010.
  4. ↑ Rebel at seventy-one - Eternal quest of a thinking mind
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