Sasthi Brata
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Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Indian English Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Main other 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
Sasthibrata was educated at Calcutta Boys' School, Kolkata and then at Presidency College, Kolkata, where read Physics.[1][2] [3]
Post literary career
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.
Works
Novels
- 1971. Confessions of an Indian Woman Eater
- 1973. She and He
- 1980. The Sensuous Guru: The Making of a Mystic President
Short stories
- 1978. Encounter
Poetry
- 1960. Eleven Poems
Memoir and Autobiography
- 1968. My God Died Young
- 1975. A Search for Home
- 1976. Traitor to India: A Search for Home
Travel
- 1985 Labyrinths in the Lotus Land
- 1986 India: The Perpetual Paradox
References
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- British people of Bengali descent
- Indian emigrants to England
- Bengali writers
- Indian male novelists
- Writers from Kolkata
- Presidency University, Kolkata alumni
- University of Calcutta alumni
- 1939 births
- 2015 deaths
- 20th-century Indian novelists
- Novelists from West Bengal
- 20th-century Indian male writers