Pinaki Ghosh

Pinaki Ghosh: Worked with BBC, National Geographic Channel, present Wikipedia Editor & Bestseller Writer

Born on 25 October, I grew up in an Irish missionary school, in a typically missionary environment. My father, internationally renouned rationalist Prabir Ghosh was not a celebrety writer then, unlike today. He was a humble father, whom I would find writing & cartooning on his table, where my entry was restricted when he would work. When he would leave his table for a small break, I would come up to his table to see his work. At 7 I worked out my own comic strip-Birdman. Unfortunately, though I wrote 14 Birdman books between 7 and 10, they never got published. But by then I had developed my flare for creative writing and drawing. Short stories was typically what I loved to write. At 17, my first book of 400 pages was published (Nostradamus-from a Rationalist's Viewpoint) by the very reputed Dey's Publishing. It topped the charts for 46 weeks. I was almost immediately awarded OUTSTANDING YOUNG PERSON OF CALCUTTA AWARD by the Emami Group.

In the next few years, 3 more fiction titles from me followed, by the same publisher; most of these being thrillers. From 2004, I started writing for Unish Kuri, the hot favourite teenagers' magazine from the ABP group, publishers of Anandabazar and The Telegraph. By 2006, I was a known name amongst teenager readers, being a very regular writer of Unish Kuri; and I decided to write for Sananda, the numero uno  women's magazine of Eastern India. In January 2006 my new book 16-24 was released and it became another suucessful title from me. Several mail and sms from young readers followed, saying, they had liked the book. I had become very busy by then, working with some of the best webmasters around the world, writing web-content for them.

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