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'''Sasthibrata Chakravarti''' (1939–2015), known as '''Sasthi Brata''', was a [[British-Indian]] [[Indo-Anglian]] writer of fiction. He is best known for his best selling novel ''Confessions of an Indian Woman Eater''. <br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
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Sasthibrata was educated at [[Calcutta Boys' School]], Kolkata and then at [[Presidency College, Kolkata]], then affiliated with the [[University of Calcutta]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090920/jsp/7days/story_11518890.jsp|title=Seven types of Calcutta|date=21 December 2008|work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]|accessdate=8 April 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/939724152.html?dids=939724152:939724152&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Nov+03%2C+1968&author=&pub=Hartford+Courant&desc=His+World+Divided&pqatl=google|title=His World Divided|last= COMANS|first=GRACE P|work=[[Hartford Courant]]|publisher=3 November 1968|accessdate=8 April 2010 | date=3 November 1968}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4178/Brata-Sasthi.html|title=Sasthi Brata Biography|work=biography.jrank.org|accessdate=8 April 2010}}</ref><br />
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==Post literary career==<br />
Sasthibrata lived a checkered life. After his literary career, he had worked as a salesman for air conditioners, a lavatory attendant, a postman, a kitchen porter, to supplement his pension.<ref name=TT>[http://www.telegraphindia.com/1160227/jsp/opinion/story_71509.jsp#.VtG-jPl97IU Rebel at seventy-one - Eternal quest of a thinking mind]</ref> He died in 2015 at the age of 75.<br />
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==Bibliograp{{}}hy==<br />
* ''My God Died Young''<br />
* ''Confessions of an Indian Woman Eater''<br />
* ''India: Labyrinths in the Lotus Land''<br />
* ''Traitor to India: A search for home''<br />
* ''India: The Perpetual Paradox''<br />
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[[Category:British people of Bengali descent]]<br />
[[Category:Indian emigrants to England]]<br />
[[Category:Bengali writers]]<br />
[[Category:Indian male novelists]]<br />
[[Category:Writers from Kolkata]]<br />
[[Category:Presidency University, Kolkata alumni]]<br />
[[Category:University of Calcutta alumni]]<br />
[[Category:1939 births]]<br />
[[Category:2015 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian novelists]]<br />
[[Category:Novelists from West Bengal]]<br />
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