Shom Biswas

Soumyadipta ‘Shom’ Biswas is a senior sales executive, a newspaper columnist, a short-story writer and a dabbler in sundry other things. He used to write a weekly column on books in The New Indian Express, and his short stories have been published in literary magazines in India and Singapore, notably the Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Out of Print, The Bombay Review and Spark. A regular quizzer, he was a semi-finalist at the University Challenge Quiz (2003–04) televised on BBC World.