Articles by Amit Shankar Saha
Amit Shankar Saha is an academic researcher and a creative writer. He has a PhD in English Literature from Calcutta University. His works have appeared in journals and magazines like Cerebration, Rupkatha, Muse India, Humanicus, Pegasus, Families, Research and Criticism, The Criterion, Boloji, Desi Lit, Asia Writes, Kritya, Pens on Fire, Word Catalyst, Palki, etc. He has also written for the Chicken Soup for the Soul series. He lives in Kolkata and blogs at www.amitss6.blogspot.com
[I attended a two-day Creative Writing Workshop organized by the British Council and conducted by Richa Wahi and Chetan Joshi. In the last session of the workshop the participants were to write a story and ...
Shashi was a boy, who like all other boys went to school. But, unlike most boys, he was not allowed to decide for his own future. It was his father who decided what he will …
Shri Gopal Krishna Gandhi was the governor of West Bengal between 2004 and 2009. The state of West Bengal was privileged to have him as the governor not only because of his illustrious lineage, being …
It was John Keats’ birthday when I became a member of British Council Library, Kolkata, in 1996. I had tried to become a member of the British Council Library earlier but the library officials stated …
It was the season of change and infectious diseases when even close bosom friends would avoid looking at your maturing infection. Into this change of season, one day, I let myself awake with my eyelids …
Dussehra marks the triumph of good over evil. But symbolically the festival is representative of all good tidings in life. And such was the case with me this Dussehra – the twenty-eighth of September. Early …
Luckily it did not rain on the “Rakhi” day – also the day of the Penguin Annual Lecture. So, when I reached Nandan, the auditorium was almost full. But a kind usher found a vacant …
How do you manufacture chance? The two very words, “manufacture” and “chance”, occurring side by side is an oxymoron. Yet that was the very idea that struck my teen mind that day in 1992, when …
