User:Amit Sen



Hi, I'm Amit Sen alias Amitava Sengupta, a sexagenerian, desperately seeking foothold on a long breathtaking social ladder which, incidentally, amuses me these days thanks to the painstaking efforts of my young friends who think I'm fit for this belated climb or scramble ! Let me introduce myself in brief. I did my postgraduation and worked with different organizations like the AUC Calcutta (not Kolkata forty years back),the Regional News Unit, AIR Calcutta for nearly 8 years from 1975 till 1983. These were all contractual assignments which I could continue, taking leave from my mother concern FCI where I had joined in 1978. I left goverment job in 1999 and took up travel writing in the Aajkal group from 2001 and continued there till 2004. Then I left and joined the Uttar Banga Sambad at its Bardhan office  as a sub. I stayed there for 2 years. Then again I worked with a travel magazine published from Howrah for a very brief period when it struck me that I'm not suited for jobs that have regulatory bindings. I came back home and started working on a book on the history of Jewish diaspora, a topic I was interested in since 1985. My Bengali book "Ehudi katha" was the result of more than 2years research. It was published in 2015 by Rupali Prakashan,Kolkata and had won academic acclaims since. I'm currently working on my second book, a brief history of the silkroads from BC 200 till the 14th century. Since the early days of my career I had nurtured a passion for nature and wildlife photography and that led me on occasions to less trodden tracks for the last 15 years. Humbly speaking I possess a good personal repository of photos of creatures and wildernesses which I had loved most and will continue to love as long as I live.



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