Bio
In his own words – Born in Shillong, Meghalaya, a place very close to my heart for the excellent childhood spent in that now slightly defaced hill station. Studied in St Edmund’s School and College where sports and erratic reading took up most of my time. Graduated with honours in economics and later my masters in the same subject from Gauhati varsity. Took to writing fiction from an early age( while in school) and did a stint as the editor for the college magazine during 1975-76. After several jobs, including that of a salesman in Delhi and a teacher in a venture college later joined the Assam Civil Service in 1983 and inducted into the Indian Administrative Service in 2000. Presently posted a s The Secretary, Tourism and urban Development Departments, Assam I had earlier done my usual bureaucratic stints as a field officer. I travel a lot, primarily because, short as I am of the innate imaginative qualities required of a fiction-writer, the experience gathered from the mostly unplanned travelling is fodder for the whatever written works that I have managed to bring out. Have written over 60 short stories published in various magazines(First Proof, New Frontiers, etc) and newspapers( Sunday sections). In 2006, 2010 and 2014, Penguin India Ltd published A Bowstring Winter (novel), Luck (short story collection), Sons Of Brahma (novel), respectively. Received the Katha Award for Fiction in English in 1996. Am also a proud founder-member of the vibrant North East Writers’ Forum, established in 1997, comprising a disparate writers, poets from Arunachal, Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Meghalaya, Tripura and Sikkim. The Forum promotes original writings in the English language as well as promoting translations. Our present membership exceeds 350.