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access to the upper reaches of Mumbai and yet, the trains he traveled on, journeyed through some of the poorest urban areas of India. He decided to take up writing once again. His second short story, a decade after the first, got published in a
Bengali daily. In 2014, Shamik left his job and returned to Kolkata to concentrate on writing and film-making.
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Shamik Ghosh was born in
Kolkata, West Bengal India to University Professor father Alok Kumar Ghosh and mother Dipika Ghosh. His family moved from Jessore of present-day Bangladesh during the Partition of India. Shamik spent his early childhood in a mixed locality surrounded by slums and befriended
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The writing of Shamik Ghosh is characterized by short sentences, vividly visual description and continuous changes of time and space. Some argue that he delves into postmodern fiction. He doesn't believe in the normal interpretation of reality and wants to bend reality to reveal unseen elements of
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After graduation, Shamik joined a
Private Sector Bank in Kolkata. After a small stint he moved and joined another PSU Bank and was posted in Ahmedabad and then went to Mumbai in the Corporate Strategy and Communication Department of the same Bank. As a Corporate Communication professional he had
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Shamik did his undergraduate studies in physics from
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our own hidden self. He speaks about loners in the society, each unique with a distinct marginality.
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