Sasthi Brata

Sasthibrata Chakravarti Bhattacharya (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.

Early life and education
Sasthibrata was educated at Calcutta Boys' School, Kolkata and then at Presidency College, Kolkata, where read Physics.

Post literary career
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. He died in 2015 at the age of 75.

Novels

 * 1971. Confessions of an Indian Woman Eater
 * 1973. She and He
 * 1980. The Sensuous Guru: The Making of a Mystic President

Short stories

 * 1978. Encounter

Poetry

 * 1960. Eleven Poems

Memoir and Autobiography

 * 1968. My God Died Young
 * 1975. A Search for Home
 * 1976. Traitor to India: A Search for Home

Travel

 * 1985 Labyrinths in the Lotus Land
 * 1986 India: The Perpetual Paradox