Bishwanath Ghosh (born 26 December 1970) is an Indian writer, journalist and poet, best known for his literary travelogues which describe the real essence of India. His most recent book is ''Jiyo Banaras'' (2021), a collection of Hindi poems on Banaras. He is also the author of the bestselling ''Aimless in Banaras: Wanderings in India’s Holiest City'', published in December 2019. In August 2017 he published ''Gazing at Neighbours: Travels Along the Line That Partitioned India'', to coincide with seventy years of

Partition of India The Partition of British India in 1947 was the Partition (politics), change of political borders and the division of other assets that accompanied the dissolution of the British Raj in South Asia and the creation of two independent dominions: ...

. He is also the author of ''Longing, Belonging: An Outsider at Home in Calcutta'' (2014), which is a portrait of present-day

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, and the acclaimed ''Tamarind City: Where Modern India Began'' (2012), which is a portrait of

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, now known as

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. In 2009 he published the hugely popular ''Chai, Chai: Travels in Places Where You Stop but Never Get Off'', which

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called "a delightful travelogue with a difference" and which was subsequently translated into Hindi and Marathi. He was born in

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, where he started his career as a journalist in 1993 with ''The Pioneer''. He subsequently worked with the

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and ''

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'' in

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. He moved to

in 2001 to join the

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group. He joined ''

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'' in 2008 when the newspaper launched its Chennai edition. At present he is an associate editor with ''

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'' and lives in

, having made the city is home in August 2018 after nearly 18 years in

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* http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/68993/Going+offtrack.html * http://bytheganges.blogspot.com ''On the Ganga Mail'', Bishwanath Ghosh's blog {{DEFAULTSORT:Ghosh, Bishwanath Indian male journalists Indian travel writers English-language writers from India Living people 1970 births Writers from Chennai

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