Ghosh, Himel

Himel Ghosh, born in November 1996, graduated with B.Tech in Electronics and Communications Engineering (ECE) from FIEM, Kolkata, and is currently an IT professional at TCS. He is a writer and poet whose works have been published in online magazines and one of his short stories and poems were published in "Cradle Tales" Paperback Anthology series in 2019 on the Kolkata International Book Fair. Himel also uses his nickname Rick in many of his poems.

He is an avid reader and a cinephile. Himel’s movie and series reviews are often published in The Telegraph (T2).

He is majorly influenced by the literary works of Shakespeare, Blake, Wordsworth, John Keats, Rabindranath Tagore, Jibanananda Das, Ruskin Bond, Paulo Coelho and Dostoevsky among the many. Himel's poems are mostly themed on nature, philosophy, life, experiences and universe. He believes in the Universal Brotherhood like Octavio Paz and considers humanity as a single united entity like Carl Sagan believed.

Himel started writing proses from early childhood. He is always fascinated with the fantasy genre. His first successful short story was a fairy tale he wrote when he was in Class 2 and got an award for that. Himel wrote his first verse "The Seashore" when he studied in Class 9 and had that published in his School Magazine. He prefers to write both in metered verse and free verse.