Avik Chanda
Photo courtesy of the author.
Shearsman Titles
Footnotes
About the author
Born in Calcutta, Avik Chanda graduated from Presidency College and completed
his education at the Delhi School of Economics. Following a brief stint in
media, he has pursued a career in management consulting over the last ten years,
during which time he has also been moonlighting as a freelance journalist,
painter and more recently, a poet, writing in both English and his native Bengali.
After an excursion into writing poetry during his college days, and a subsequent
hiatus that lasted the greater part of a decade, Avik took up poetry again,
particularly during the years he spent in Europe and in the UK. His work has
been published in a number of journals, and Footnotes is his first collection
inb English.