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	'''Bishwanath Ghosh''' (born 26 December 1970) is an Indian writer and ~~journalist~~, best known for his literary travelogues which describe the real essence of India. His most recent book is the bestselling ''Aimless in Banaras: Wanderings in India’s Holiest City'', published in December 2019. In August 2017 he published ''Gazing at Neighbours: Travels Along the Line That Partitioned India'', to coincide with seventy years of [[Partition of India]]. He is also the author of ''Longing, Belonging: An Outsider at Home in Calcutta'' (2014), which is a portrait of present-day [[Kolkata]], and the acclaimed ''Tamarind City: Where Modern India Began'' (2012), which is a portrait of [[Madras]], now known as [[Chennai]]. In 2009 he published the hugely popular ''Chai, Chai: Travels in Places Where You Stop but Never Get Off'', which [[The Telegraph (Kolkata)]] called "a delightful travelogue with a difference"<ref>{{Cite news\|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1091023/jsp/opinion/story_11631917.jsp\|publisher=[[The Telegraph (Kolkata)\|The Telegraph]]\|title=From here to Eternity\|date=2009-10-23}}</ref> and which was subsequently translated into Hindi and Marathi.		'''Bishwanath Ghosh''' (born 26 December 1970) is an Indian writer, journalist and poet, best known for his literary travelogues which describe the real essence of India. His most recent book is ''Jiyo Banaras'' (2021), a collection of Hindi poems on Banaras. He is also the author of the bestselling ''Aimless in Banaras: Wanderings in India’s Holiest City'', published in December 2019. In August 2017 he published ''Gazing at Neighbours: Travels Along the Line That Partitioned India'', to coincide with seventy years of [[Partition of India]]. He is also the author of ''Longing, Belonging: An Outsider at Home in Calcutta'' (2014), which is a portrait of present-day [[Kolkata]], and the acclaimed ''Tamarind City: Where Modern India Began'' (2012), which is a portrait of [[Madras]], now known as [[Chennai]]. In 2009 he published the hugely popular ''Chai, Chai: Travels in Places Where You Stop but Never Get Off'', which [[The Telegraph (Kolkata)]] called "a delightful travelogue with a difference"<ref>{{Cite news\|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1091023/jsp/opinion/story_11631917.jsp\|publisher=[[The Telegraph (Kolkata)\|The Telegraph]]\|title=From here to Eternity\|date=2009-10-23}}</ref> and which was subsequently translated into Hindi and Marathi.

	He was born in [[Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh]], where he started his career as a journalist in 1993 with [[The Pioneer (Indian newspaper)\|The Pioneer]]. He subsequently worked with the [[Press Trust of India]] and [[The Asian Age]] in [[New Delhi]]. He moved to [[Chennai]] in 2001 to join the [[New Indian Express]] group. He joined [[The Times of India]] in 2008 when the newspaper launched its Chennai edition. At present he is an Associate Editor with [[The Hindu]] and lives in [[Kolkata]], having made the city is home in August 2018 after nearly 18 years in [[Chennai]].		He was born in [[Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh]], where he started his career as a journalist in 1993 with [[The Pioneer (Indian newspaper)\|The Pioneer]]. He subsequently worked with the [[Press Trust of India]] and [[The Asian Age]] in [[New Delhi]]. He moved to [[Chennai]] in 2001 to join the [[New Indian Express]] group. He joined [[The Times of India]] in 2008 when the newspaper launched its Chennai edition. At present he is an Associate Editor with [[The Hindu]] and lives in [[Kolkata]], having made the city is home in August 2018 after nearly 18 years in [[Chennai]].

			== See also ==
			* [[List of Indian writers]]

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'''Bishwanath Ghosh''' (born 26 December 1970) is an Indian writer and journalist, best known for his literary travelogues which describe the real essence of India. His most recent book is the bestselling ''Aimless in Banaras: Wanderings in India’s Holiest City'', published in December 2019. In August 2017 he published ''Gazing at Neighbours: Travels Along the Line That Partitioned India'', to coincide with seventy years of [[Partition of India]]. He is also the author of ''Longing, Belonging: An Outsider at Home in Calcutta'' (2014), which is a portrait of present-day [[Kolkata]], and the acclaimed ''Tamarind City: Where Modern India Began'' (2012), which is a portrait of [[Madras]], now known as [[Chennai]]. In 2009 he published the hugely popular ''Chai, Chai: Travels in Places Where You Stop but Never Get Off'', which [[The Telegraph (Kolkata)]] called "a delightful travelogue with a difference"<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1091023/jsp/opinion/story_11631917.jsp|publisher=[[The Telegraph (Kolkata)|The Telegraph]]|title=From here to Eternity|date=2009-10-23}}</ref> and which was subsequently translated into Hindi and Marathi.

He was born in [[Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh]], where he started his career as a journalist in 1993 with [[The Pioneer (Indian newspaper)|The Pioneer]]. He subsequently worked with the [[Press Trust of India]] and [[The Asian Age]] in [[New Delhi]]. He moved to [[Chennai]] in 2001 to join the [[New Indian Express]] group. He joined [[The Times of India]] in 2008 when the newspaper launched its Chennai edition. At present he is an Associate Editor with [[The Hindu]] and lives in [[Kolkata]], having made the city is home in August 2018 after nearly 18 years in [[Chennai]].

== References ==

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==External links==
* http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/68993/Going+offtrack.html
* http://bytheganges.blogspot.com ''On the Ganga Mail'', Bishwanath Ghosh's blog
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