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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Professor, Researcher, Writer and Poet |
| Location | Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Introduction | Dr. Amit Shankar Saha is a faculty member in the Department of English at Seacom Skills University. He is also a researcher, a critic, a short story writer and a poet. He was earlier a course coordinator and guest professor teaching in the distance education programme of Madras University. His love for literature led him to obtain a PhD in English from Calcutta University. His doctoral dissertation is titled “The Indian Diaspora in Transition: Reading Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, Sunetra Gupta and Jhumpa Lahiri.” His research articles have appeared in journals and anthologies nationally and internationally. He has won prizes at a number of creative writing competitions which include Poiesis Award for Excellence in Literature (Short story-2015), Wordweavers Prize (Poetry-2011, Short story-2014), The Leaky Pot - Stranger than Fiction Prize (2014), Asian Cha – Void Poetry Prize (2014), International Reuel Prize for Poetry (Shortlisted-2016). Dr. Amit Shankar Saha is the co-founder and coordinator of Rhythm Divine Poets, a Kolkata-based poets group dedicated to the promotion of poetry. His debut collection of poems is titled "Balconies of Time". |
| Interests | Reading, Writing, Researching. |
| Favorite Movies | Dersu Uzala, - Dir. Akira Kurosawa, Sense and Sensibility, - Dir. Ang Lee, Monsoon Wedding, - Dir. Mira Nair, English August, - Dir. Dev Benegal, Sonar Kella, - Dir. Satyajit Ray, La Outra Conquista, - Dir. Salvador Carrasco, The Making of the Mahatma, - Dir. Shyam Benegal, Chokher Bali, - Dir. Rituparno Ghosh, The Lord of the Rings, (Trilogy) - Dir. Peter Jackson, Jab We Met, - Dir. Imtiaz Ali. (This list is indicative and not exhaustive) |
| Favorite Music | Sunrise, from Feels Like Home by Norah Jones, Raaga Bhoop, by Kishori Amonkar, Hoyto Tomari Janyo, from Teen Bhubaner Parey by Manna Dey, Choti Si Kahani Se, from Izazaat by Asha Bhonsle/R. D. Burman, Tu Hi Re, from Bombay by Hariharan/A. R. Rahman. (Indicative list) |
| Favorite Books | The Mill on the Floss, by George Eliot, Sons and Lovers, by D. H. Lawrence, Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert, An Equal Music, by Vikram Seth, The Shadow Lines, by Amitav Ghosh, Interpreter of Maladies, by Jhumpa Lahiri, So Good in Black, by Sunetra Gupta, Clear Light of Day, by Anita Desai, The Plague, by Albert Camus, The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy. (This list is indicative and not exhaustive) |