I was born on April 8, 1951. Early Life I lived and grew up in Calcutta for 34 years in anticipation of growing old in that lovely city. Chase of unrewarding and or else contemptible career took me away from the city. The longing to write and the intent to do so had been perched in my cerebrum, and I carried a lingering within my psyche for many years with some distrust in my aptitude. The push forward to take my own writing with more legitimacy came around when my daughter Daminee chanced upon some of my scarps with no real permission to do so. She kind of approved the work and gave the energy to shape them up. My short Stories Pulsate of Calcutta - Evocatively Salil Mathur is published at Amazon Kindle (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pulsates-Calcutta-Evocatively-Mathur-ebook/dp/B007HOD4P0) it is a sort of look out from my veranda and some what free wheeling of my mind. I did mix different characters that were exposed to me at different times but they had overwhelmed me for their moral fiber or actually for the lack of it. Some of these faces only supplemented my utmost dislike for the morally uprights. In short, I left my overall mindset to stroll freely so most of the tales come off as annotations and are low in didactic. I have carefully avoided my work to look like an exotic ethnic cookbook but apron strings are all over; for I believe that the feminine gender is quite an extra serving of the sauce. All stories, twelve of them, have Calcutta, the city I loved as their landscape. They talk of forceful human value and curiosity.
Some of the highlights are: 1. Whose Obituary is it anyway? The author a journalist updating obituaries in newspaper, in anticipation of famous people dying at some time, unexpectedly becomes privy to an astonishing but shocking disclosure by a prominent businessperson of his accidental surrender to his lust for his secretary. Life offered to this unlucky man one of the most singular spectacles in the human comedy without a warning. To help his former secretary now dying of cancer and saddled as single mother he commits suicide to will away portion of his fortune to her child born out of him without a wedlock. 2. Jodhpur and early Signposts is author’s quest into his own pedigree. 3. Song of the Road – Evocative of Papa unfolds the saga of the making of Pather Panchali by the Master Film Director Satyajit Ray. The author’s father in his role as the Director publicity also acted as the executive plays a pivotal role in the film’s success but remained an unsung hero. 4. Mahatma Gandhi’s miracle at Sodepur – How Attenborough’s Gandhi misestimates Surhawardy’s Role and Persona a front-row eyewitness story puts to perspective by father of the author.
Today I am an atheist so I am never piously. There is nothing untypical about my middle class Indian family of mutual care and concern and none too grand small dream. My wife Rama and I draw immense fulfillment from the success of our kids Daminee and Anand. I work as a head of IT Company in Chandigarh.