Anjana Basu Author

Anjana Basu - author Born 22.11.1957? Allahabad Uttar Pradesh India

Education

Muswell Hill Primary School London Senior Cambridge, Loreto House Calcutta, 1972, First Division BA English Hons. First Class, Loreto College, 1975-76 MA English, Second Class Second, Calcutta University, 1979 Special Student, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA, 1980

Educational Honours

Among the first 50 students in India for Senior Cambridge Second in University for BA Calcutta University Scholarship Student for MA Second in University for MA

Fellowships

Hawthornden Fellow, April 18 – May 15 2004

Publications

Novels

• Conspiracy of Aunts, Readomania, 2018
• Hide and Seek Tiger, TERI 2018
• Eighteen Tides and a Tiger, TERI 2017
• Leopard in the Laboratory, TERI, 2016
• In the Shadow of the Leaves, TERI 2013
• Rhythms of Darkness, Gyaana Books, 2012
• Chinku and the Wolfboy, Roli 2010
• Black Tongue. India Ink, Roli 2007
• Curses In Ivory. Harper Collins India Ltd. 2003

Short Stories

The White Mare. The Antigonish Review, Canada 2006 Footprints on the Ceiling. All Hallows, Canada, 2003 Smoke Gets In Your Eyes, BBC Short Story Programme, September 1999 The Great White Hunt. Australian Short Stories, Mooltan Press The Homecoming, Wolfhead Quarterly, Duluth, USA Dec 1997 E-zine and Print The Rich Are Different, The Amethyst Review, Canada, Nov 1997 The Court Dress, Statesman Festival Supplement, October 1996 The Pearl Buddha, serialised short story, published Times of India, 1968

Poetry

The Last Rock. Saltzburg Poetry Review Autumn 2007 Moth & Flame Istanbul Review, September 2007 Banalata Sen, Perihelion, January 1998 Ezine Paris Autumn. Pif, Ezine http://www.pifmagazine.com/SID/371/ Grandmother's Cushions. Recursive Angel, 1998 Ezine The Dark God, The Horsethief's Journal, Cayuse Press, USA, 2000 Spring Music Missed. The Phoenix Review. Australia, 1977 Words for Naren, Kunapipi, 1989

Short Fiction

Plastic Bucket Green, Brevity Illusions of Glamour, Gravity, 22nd Edition www.newtonsbaby.com/gravity/ab998.html Golden Skinned Green, Conspire, 2000. conspire.org/anjanab.html

Articles

Star Trek. Travel Plus November 2008 Great Scot. Travel Plus February 2008 Brown Sugar. Outlook Traveller. January 2007 The Great Eastern Melting Pot, Travel Plus, January 2007 The City Has Two Sides, Jetwings, October 2006 Hyderabad Blues. Travel Plus. July 2006 Land of Milk and Sugar. Good Housekeeping, India June 2006 Bangla Ranna, Good Housekeeping, India May 2006 Correspondent for Harmony Magazine 2004-2006 Kolkata, the City Built by Writers. The Edinburgh Review, 2006 Murshidabad, Travel Plus, July 2005 Hymn to the Highlands. Travel Plus. September 2004 The Great European Campsite. Outlook Heritage Holidays, April 2004 Barefoot on the Golf Course, Travel Plus, April 2004 Dyke Days, Travel Plus. July 2003 Watching the River Flow. Outlook Traveller, September 2001 Column on food for The Times of India, Kolkata edition, 1999 Reviews and articles for Gowanus, 1998 – 2004 Contributed to Women's International Net. 1998 and 1999 Column in Eighth Day, The Statesman. Face Value, Cosmopolitan, July 1998 Regular Contributor to The Telegraph between 1982 and 1991 The Seasons of Gariahat, India Magazine, March 1997 An Agency in Search of a Tubewell, India Magazine, October 1997 Also featured in Femina, Eve's Weekly, Signature

Collections

Picture Poems and Word Seasons. A collection of poems published by Authorpress. July 2009 The Agency Raga, a collection of short stories, published by Orient Longman 1994 Featured in The Best of Gowanus. Savvy Press, USA The Balancing Act. The Best of Eclectica. Electica Press, USA Included in Crow Poems published by the Fly by Night Press, USA Included in Will Work For Peace, a poetry anthology edited by Brett Axel, Xeropanik Press, USA Included in In Their Own Voice, a collection of Indian women's verse published by Penguin India, 1992 The Chess Players and other poems, Writer's Workshop, 1976

Film Work

Dialogues for The Last Lear with Rituparno Ghosh Subtiting for the feature film Dosar, 2006 Scripting and subtitling for the feature film Antarmahal, 2005 Subtitling and translating songs for the feature film Raincoat, 2004 Subtitling and translating songs for the feature film Chokher Bali, 2003 Wrote the subtitles for the feature film Dahan, 1997 Wrote the subtitles for the National Award Winning Film, Unishe April, 1996 Wrote the subtitles for Ascharya Pradip, Anik Dutta

Advertising Work

• Lintas: White Mischief Campaign ITC: Classic Golf and Racing Promotion work from 1990 to 1998 Campaigns for Tata Tubes Puppet show for Tata Tubes Campaigns for the launch of Gharana and Baan Thai restaurants MobileNet launch campaign in Calcutta Work for the successful IBM Ace pitch Work for the India Kings pitch Work for the launch of Classic Golf Essentials Work for the Wills Classic Launch • Response Margo: Skin that's younger than springtime Nick Nack Toys Launch Kaaleen Carpets Launch FunMunch Launch • HTA Wrote the jingle ‘She’s a Special Woman’ for Brooke Bond Red Label Special Partly wrote and worked on The Wills Books of Excellence, 1984, 1985 Dunlop Book of the Motor Car, 1985 Wrote the Wills Made for Each Other diaries from 1985 to 1988 Worked on Wills Golf Campaign for ICI : ‘Husbands dream in black and white…’ Kwality ads

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