Pentacles

Sabarna Roy, 43, is a qualified Civil Engineer from Jadavpur University, Calcutta. He works in a senior management position in a manufacturing and engineering construction company. Sabarna is widely travelled in India and lives in Calcutta with his family. He is an avid reader and movie buff. He started writing during his university days, mostly English and Bengali poems. He stopped writing after he left university and took up employment. After a gap of 19 years, he started writing once again mostly to reconnect with himself. In the period of 19 years when he did not write, he spent his non-working hours reading, listening to music and watching world cinema. He loves reading Tolstoy, Chekhov, Rabinderanath, Eliot, Manik Bandopadhyay, Satyajit Ray, Kundera and Pamuk the most. He is hooked onto Mozart, Turkish and Egyptian music and M S Subbalaxmi. In cinema his favourites are Aparajito, Pratidwandi, Rashoman, Eight-and-a Half, Breathless, Head-on, Birds, Vertigo, Sunset Boulevard, Sacrifice, Garam Hawa and Tare Zameen Par.