Amitabh Mitra is an Orthopedic Surgeon / Aviation Medicine Expert in a busy hospital in East London in South Africa. A widely published poet in the web and print, Amitabh has been hailed as one of the most popular Indian poet writing in English today by the Skyline Literary Review, New York.

A powerful voice dispersing a reverie of time and heritage, his love poems with a backdrop of feudal Gwalior and Delhi takes you on a sentimental journey to old family homes, forts and palaces where he grew up.

His unique style of fusing words into almost lyrical dream like images, exploring muted corners of life taken over by a sudden rush hour time, Amitabh brings forth poetry that seem to peep from behind veils and shadows, waylaid in a mind state in Johannesburg and New York, all merging in an unforgettable ecstatic experience.

His first book of poems was published in 1980 under the title of Ritual Silences.

Dr. Mitra figures in the International Roster of Physician Poets, a massive roster of ancient and contemporary poets / writers maintained by Dr. Daniel Bryant and assisted by Dr. Suzanne Poirer, Professor of Literature and Medical Education, University of Illinois, USA. 

Contact: AMitra@boloji.net

Ramblings   
Ramblings of a Bone Setter   
South Africa, A New Destiny   
Yohhh! Boloji  

Stories    
The Last Prince  

Society  
Being Amar Singh
  - Stress Disorder Among Indian Politicians 
Dumile Feni - An Artist Misunderstood 
George Pemba
  - Not Just a South African Township Artist 
Happy Birthday Madiba 
Isaac Witkin
  - The South African Mozart of Bronze 
Mandela at 91
Naxalbari, a Village Remembered 
The Passing Away of Giants  
 

Selected as Poet of the Week
on October 23, 2005
on September 16, 2007
on August 31, 2008

Poetic Articles and Interviews
A Dialogue with Poet Sahar Rizvi 
A dialogue with the Canadian Poet
    Aurora Antonovic  
A Dialogue with Victoria Valentine  
Children's Poetry and
   The Making of a Good Poem  
End of a Rite, Kamala Das Passes Away
Fantasy Poetry and Much More   
Kashmiriyat and a New Dawn in Kashmir 
Love, Struggle and the Poetry of Nepal 
Royal Heritage: A Legacy in Poetry 
The Poetic Style of Jan Oscar Hansen 
The Poetry in the Moors  
The Romance that is Kolkata  
Turn, Turn, Turn to the Rain Again ...  
Unforgettable Times:
    Indo English Poetry in the Seventies    
William Sharp of the Scindia School
    - Tales from Gwalior

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