Ayan Pal
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Human Resources |
| Occupation | IT Consultant, Author |
| Location | Kolkata, West Bengal, India |
| Introduction | Ayan Pal is an Author, Speaker, and IBM-Accredited IT professional with over a decade of experience across top IT organizations including IBM. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering (VTU, Karnataka) and has completed a course in Education Technology (SDSU, California). An an Author, he is best known for his novel ‘Confessions on an Island’ as well as his acclaimed short stories in the Amazon Bestselling anthologies ‘Chronicles of Urban Nomads’, ‘When They Spoke’, ‘Rudraksh’ and ‘21 Tales to Tell’. He has also co-authored India’s first composite novel, ‘Crossed and Knotted’ which made it into the Limca Book of Records under Literature. He has been ranked among India’s top new authors on Litagram, considered as the "Instagram of Literature", and was a finalist in the Orange Flower Digital Creative Superstar Awards, in association with Harper Collins, in the categories of ‘Creative Writing’, and ‘Humor’. He also contributes to the South Asian literary magazine ‘Open Road Review’, literary social forum ‘Readomania’, and Delhi-NCR based lifestyle magazine ‘ThnkMkt’. In resides in Kolkata, India with his wife, daughter, grandmother, and aunts. |
| Interests | Reading, Creative Writing, Watching TV Shows & Movies, Toastmasters |
| Favorite movies | English: Lord of the Rings trilogy, Titanic, Jurassic Park series, Signs, The Good the Bad and the Ugly trilogy, the X-Men series Hindi: Mera Naam Joker, Hum Aapke Hain Koun, Mr India, Masoom, Gumnaam, Kahaani Bengali: Apu trilogy, The Goopi Gayen Bagha Bayen series, Bhooter Bhabishyot, Feluda series Also - numerous animation films, especially by Studio Ghibli |
| Favorite music | Enrique Iglesius, JLO, Blue, Train, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, Dido, Backstreet Boys, Barobax, Lionel Richie |
| Favorite books | Wuthering Heights, Harry Potter series, Agatha Christie - all, The Kite Runner, Of Human Bondage, the Percy Jackson series, A Series of Unfortunate Events series, A Monster Calls, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Hobbit and LOTR, the Mitch Albom series |
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