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Souvik Ghosh / Writing

Author, poet & lyricist

Kolkata is where my fictional detectives look for clues and where a virologist in one of my novels first encounters a pathogen that learns. In Bengali verse, I can stay with a single thought for a whole poem.

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Published work

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Books I wrote

Books I translated

Work in progress

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Bengali verse · In revision

ছড়ায় সত্যানুসরণ

In Chhoray Satyanusaran, I take up Thakur’s Satyanusaran a passage at a time and render it in Bengali verse. During revision I keep the original passage beside each poem.

English nonfiction · In progress

Satyanusaran Decoded

A reader’s companion to the same text. In prose, I work through the sections in order and ask what each one might mean in everyday life.

Bengali detective fiction · In progress

The Sandipan Ray series

Sayak Roy and I are writing a detective series set in contemporary Kolkata. Sandipan notices what people overlook. His companion sees things with a filmmaker’s eye. We want the reader to have a fair chance of solving the mystery alongside them.

Poems, lyrics & essays

If you have a few minutes

বাংলা কবিতা

I write poems and lyrics, and I also work in the two-line form of the Hindi doha. I share my Bengali poems on my personal Facebook page .

From the lab to the public page

What happens when the policy moves faster than the hardware? That is the question behind Before the Qubits Are Ready, the Policy Has Arrived . You can read and subscribe to my articles on Substack.

Writing for Master Within

In What Does Not Move , I ask how to choose when the same act can help one person and harm another.

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