Kunal Basu

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kunal Basu
Occupation	Author
Date Of Birth	May 4, 1956(1956-05-04)
Age	68
Birthplace	Kolkata
Country	India
Birth City	West Bengal
Horoscope	Taurus

Kunal Basu Biography

Kunal Basu is one of the most popular and richest Author who was born on May 4, 1956 in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

1855: on a deserted island off the coast of Africa, the most audacious experiment ever envisaged is about to begin. To settle an argument that has raged inconclusively for decades, two scientists decide to raise a pair of infants, one black, one white, on a barren island, exposed to the dangers all around them, tended only by a young nurse whose muteness renders her incapable of influencing them in any way, for good or for bad. They will grow up without speech, without civilisation, without punishment or play. In this primitive environment, the children will develop as their primitive natures dictate.

Hiran, the eponymous clerk of the title, is born in 1857: the year of Mutiny and the year his father dies. Brought to Calcutta by his widowed mother he turns out to have few talents, apart from an uncanny ability to read a man’s lies in his palm. When luck gets him a job at the auction house, Hiran finds himself embroiled in a mysterious trade, and even more deeply embroiled in the affairs of his nefarious superior, the infamous Mr. Jonathan Crabbe and his opium addicted wife. An unlikely hero, Hiran is caught up in rebellion and war, buffeted by storms at sea, by love and intrigue, innocently implicated in fraud and dark dealings.

Kunal Basu Net Worth

Kunal Basu is one of the richest Author from India. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kunal Basu 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Basu is one of the very few Indian practitioners of historical fiction. Apart from his love of history, it has something to do with the influence of his favourite author, the Bengali novelist Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (1838–94). Bankim (himself heavily influenced by Walter Scott) was a writer of historical novels, as were many other Bengali writers of the 19th and 20th centuries whom Basu avidly read as a child, like Ramesh Chandra Dutta and Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay. But more than anything, he has said what draws him most to this genre is the “romantic possibilities of the historical novel”, the scope to inhabit other places and times and thus enable the reader to romance the strange.

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According to our records, Kunal Basu married to Susmita Basu. As of December 1, 2023, Kunal Basu’s is not dating anyone.

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Following his doctoral degree, he was a professor at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, from 1986–1999. His 13 years at McGill were interrupted only by a brief stint at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, in 1989. Since 1999, he has been teaching at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School. He has also written financial pieces for business publications such as Fast Company and MIT Sloan Management Review.

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Kwon Ranked on the list of most popular Author. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in India. Kunal Basu celebrates birthday on May 4 of every year.

Romancing the Strange: The Fiction of Kunal Basu. Ed. Subir Dhar et al. Calcutta: SSEI/TGI, 2004.