Sasthi Brata

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| name = Sasthibrata Chakravarti

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| birth_date = 1939

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| death_date = 2015

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| occupation = Writer

| nationality = British-Indian

| education = Calcutta Boys' School, Presidency College (Physics)

| genre = Fiction, short stories, poetry, memoir, travel

| notable_works = Confessions of an Indian Woman Eater

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Sasthibrata Chakravarti (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.{{cite web|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090920/jsp/7days/story_11518890.jsp|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090928144634/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090920/jsp/7days/story_11518890.jsp|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 September 2009|title=Seven types of Calcutta|date=21 December 2008|work=The Telegraph|accessdate=8 April 2010}}{{cite news|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/939724152.html?dids=939724152:939724152&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Nov+03%2C+1968&author=&pub=Hartford+Courant&desc=His+World+Divided&pqatl=google|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026085819/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/courant/access/939724152.html?dids=939724152:939724152&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Nov+03,+1968&author=&pub=Hartford+Courant&desc=His+World+Divided&pqatl=google|url-status=dead|archive-date=26 October 2012|title=His World Divided|last= COMANS|first=GRACE P|work=Hartford Courant|publisher=3 November 1968|accessdate=8 April 2010 | date=3 November 1968}}

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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.[https://web.archive.org/web/20160227115147/http://www.telegraphindia.com/1160227/jsp/opinion/story_71509.jsp#.VtG-jPl97IU Rebel at seventy-one - Eternal quest of a thinking mind] He died in 2015 at the age of 75.