A graduate and Fellow of the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, Bappaditya Chakravarty has been a professor, business executive, bureaucrat, and consultant, over a career spanning more than thirty-five years. He has worked for the Government of India and the World Bank and has traveled extensively all over the world. The Sahitya Akademi in its literary journal published his short collection of poems in English. He has written extensively in his native language Bengali including a techno-thriller. The English version of the thriller, titled The Goa Connection was published in 2014. He divides his time between writing, consulting and vacationing with his family. He currently lives in Brussels with his wife and two loved cats rescued from Dhaka streets.