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.

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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. He died in 2015 at the age of 75.

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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

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

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