SWORDPLAY

Born in 1951, Bappaditya Chakravarty was educated at Delhi University and at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. After a working life that saw him journey from a Faculty position in IIM Calcutta to Director of one of the premier Management Institutes in the country, and ending as Director in the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, he joined the World Bank as a consultant, ending up as the Task Team Leader for a large education project in Afghanistan. In between, he also worked at a couple of PSUs. He spent more than two decades in the field of education and a total of fifteen years plus in Development Management and Institutional Development. He has worked in many countries as an individual consultant and on behalf of the World Bank, from the West coast of Africa to the Southeast of Asia. The idea of writing a book first came to him when he was posted in Goa as Director (Planning) of the Mormugao Port Trust. While touring North Goa, he discovered ruins of mining machinery in the jungles. Much later, it gave birth to a thriller in Bengali that was published in 2012, and which has now been comprehensively revised and will shortly be published in English. Having published three thrillers in Bengali, and one in English, and two historical fictions in English, he now considers himself a storyteller and has settled down to writing after more than two decades of traipsing around the globe. He has published around forty articles in Bengali, many of them based on his personal experience in development management. Bappaditya Chakravarty lives with his wife-a Danish Diplomat - and their two rescued cats, switching between New Delhi, Rishikesh, Bishkek, and Europe.