Ashok Niyogi on the other side of
the ragged EDGE...
Ashok Niyogi was born in 1955 and graduated with Honors in Economics from Presidency College, Kolkata. He has been in international trade and has traveled the world over including a 10-year stint as an expatriate in Yeltsin's Russia. Ashok has been and will be published in innumerable magazines (print and on-line) in the USA, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Europe. He has not been published in Africa, the Caribbean or his country of origin, India and this rankles. Ashok has two books of poetry published by A-4, India---'CROSSROADS' and 'REFLECTIONS IN THE DARK' and one 225 page paperback of poems ---'TENTATIVELY' from iUniverse, USA, (with Amazon, B&N, Borders etc.), out in March 2005, but which no one seems willing to pay $20 for. The e-book version of TENTATIVELY at $6 is doing better. Ashok was schooled in Irish Christian Brothers' schools and writes in Indian English, with whiffs of Russian, inevitable Americanisms and the odd Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and Bengali turn of phrase. He claims to have basic survival skills in these languages. He is unemployed since writing poetry is not a gainful occupation, and lives off his savings, charity, inheritances, gifts and his wife's earnings (she is a senior corporate manager in Delhi). He divides time between the Bay Area in San Francisco, where his daughters live, India, Russia, airplanes and wherever his poetry takes him. -------------------------------------------------------