Bitan ChakrabortyBitan Chakraborty (b 1984) spent eight long years in learning and actively participating in Theater. He is essentially a story-teller, and has authored seven books: Avinetar Journal (prose), Santiram-er Cha (shorty story), Sharanarthi (Bengali rendering of Kiriti Sengupta's Reflections on Salvation), Chinha (shorty story), Haat Kata (novelette), Dhasa (novelette), Brishti Sahay (Bengali translation of Sanjeev Sethi's selected poems). Bitan has received much critical acclaim both in India and in the United States. Bougainvillea and Other Stories, and The Mark are two full-length collections of his short fiction, translated into English. Read More Read Less