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Samit Basu

Samit Basu
Born December 14, 1979 (1979-12-14) (age 28)
Kolkata, India
Occupation Novelist
Nationality Indian
Writing period 2002–
Genres Fantasy
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Samit Basu is the author of The Simoqin Prophecies, The Manticore's Secret and The Unwaba Revelations, the three parts of The GameWorld Trilogy, a fantasy trilogy published by Penguin Books, India. Events 1287 - St Lucia's flood: The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses killing over 50000 people Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. Nationality is a relationship between a Person and their State of Origin, Culture, association Affiliation and/or Loyalty A literary genre is a category of literary composition Genres may be determined by Literary technique, tone, Content, or even (as in the case of fiction Terence David John Pratchett, OBE (born 28 April 1948 is an English fantasy, Science fiction, and children's author. The Simoqin Prophecies (2004 Penguin India is a Fantasy novel in English written by Indian author Samit Basu, and is the first novel in The Manticore's Secret (2005 is the second novel in Indian fantasy author Samit Basu 's GameWorld trilogy Samit Basu is the author of The Simoqin Prophecies, The Manticore's Secret and The Unwaba Revelations, the three parts Fantasy is a Genre that uses magic and other Supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting Penguin Books is a British Publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane. He currently lives and works in Delhi, India. Delhi (दिल्ली ਦਿੱਲੀ دلی d̪ɪlːiː sometimes referred to as Dilli) is the second largest metropolis of India, with a population

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Biography

Born December 14th, 1979, Basu grew up in Calcutta, where he studied at Don Bosco School, and later Presidency College, Kolkata, where he obtained a degree in Economics. Events 1287 - St Lucia's flood: The Zuider Zee sea wall in the Netherlands collapses killing over 50000 people Year 1979 ( MCMLXXIX) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1979 Gregorian calendar) Don Bosco School Park Circus, situated at 23 Darga Road Kolkata, is an all-boys English medium school imparting education from first through twelfth Presidency College Kolkata is one of the affiliated colleges and a co-founding college of the University of Calcutta. Economics is the social science that studies the production distribution, and consumption of goods and services. He dropped out of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and then went on to complete a course in broadcasting and documentary filmmaking at the University of Westminster, London. The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM Ahmedabad also known as IIMA is considered to be the premier institute of management education in India For the band see Broadcast (band Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and/or Video signals which transmit Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt in one fashion or another to " Document " reality The University of Westminster is a university in London, England, formed in 1992 as a result of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, which allowed London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom.

Writing career

The Simoqin Prophecies was written when Basu was 22 and published when he was 23, making him one of India's youngest successful authors. In 2003, Basu was in Outlook magazine's list of 16 Indian achievers under 25. He has contributed to The Harper Collins Anthology of New Indian Writing (2004). He has also written short stories for children, which appear in the Puffin Book of Bedtime stories (2005), the Puffin Book of Funny Stories (2005) and 'Seven Science Fiction Stories' (Scholastic India, 2006). In 2006, Basu published a series of articles and interviews on Indian speculative fiction called The Trousers of Time: Possible futures of Indian speculative fiction in English on a fellowship from Sarai In 2007, Basu contributed to 'Superhero!', a collection of stories about Indian superheroes published by Scholastic India and was declared, along with other prominent young Indians such as Rahul Gandhi and Vidya Balan, one of India's most promising 'Emerging Indians' by a survey conducted by IMRB and The Week magazine, India. Speculative fiction is a term used as an inclusive descriptor covering a group of Fiction Genres that speculate about worlds that are unlike the real world in Rahul Gandhi (born 19 June 1970) is an Indian politician and member of the Parliament of India, representing the Amethi constituency Vidya Balan ( Tamil: வித்யா பாலன் Malayalam: വിദ്യ ബാല൯ Hindi: विद्या बालन born January 1

The Simoqin Prophecies, written in English, has been published in Swedish by Ordbilder, and German (from Piper Verlag) and Spanish translations of the GameWorld trilogy are on their way. English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States Swedish ( is a North Germanic language spoken by more than nine million people predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along the The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. Piper Verlag is a German publisher based in Munich, printing both fiction and non-fiction works Translations is a three-act play by Irish Playwright Brian Friel written in 1980.

Apart from his novel writing, Basu is a popular columnist, scriptwriter, documentary filmmaker and freelance journalist writing on travel, film, books and pop culture. A columnist is a Journalist who writes material on a regular basis for publication in a series A freelancer, freelance worker, or freelance is a person who pursues a profession without a long-term commitment to any one employer A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends He also runs a popular weblog. A blog (a contraction of the term " Web log " is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary descriptions of Basu has also started writing comics for Virgin Comics. Comics (via Latin from the Greek "" kōmikos, of or pertaining to "comedy" from kōmos "revel" Virgin Comics LLC is a Comic book company founded in 2006 which produces stories (many of which are Indian culture related for an international audience His initial projects with them are Devi (#3-#10) and The Tall Tales of Vishnu Sharma based on the Panchatantra

Writing style

Basu follows a unique writing style in the GameWorld trilogy. Devi is the fictional character created by Shekhar Kapur and Virgin Comics, as part of their debut Shakti line which focuses on Indian settings The Tall Tales of Vishnu Sharma is an upcoming comic created by Virgin Comics, loosely based on the Panchatantra There are innumerable allusions to literary works from all over the world, including fantasy fiction and other fiction, to tales of superheroes and occasionally even to movies. An allusion is a figure of speech that makes a reference or representation of or to a well-known person place event literary work myth, or work of art Fantasy is a Genre that uses magic and other Supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting Fiction is the telling of stories which are not real More specifically fiction is an imaginative form of Narrative, one of the four basic Rhetorical modes. A superhero (sometimes rendered super-hero or super hero) is a Fictional character "of unprecedented physical prowess dedicated to acts of derring-do He draws inspiration heavily from Indian and Greek mythology, Indian folklore and modern fantasy fiction works. Hindu mythology is the large body of Mythology related to Hinduism, notably as contained in Sanskrit literature, such as the Sanskrit epics and Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the ancient Greeks concerning their gods and Heroes the nature of the world and the origins and significance This article is about the folklore of the Indian subcontinent. This medley of ideas creates a comic and absurd world. Basu liberally uses puns, tangential references, and situational humour to augment the hilarity. At the same time, the text is interspersed with pithy observations and revelations.

Bibliography

Name Group Publisher ISBN Publishing date
The Simoqin Prophecies The Gameworld Trilogy Penguin Books India ISBN 0-14-303043-4 2004
The Manticore's Secret The Gameworld Trilogy Penguin Books India ISBN 0-14-400067-9 2005
The Unwaba Revelations The Gameworld Trilogy Penguin Books India ISBN 0-14-310352-0 2007

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Tehelka is an Indian Weekly Magazine under the editorship of Tarun Tejpal Hari Mohan Nath Kunzru (born 1969 is a British novelist and journalist Author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission and My Revolutions
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