Dr. Amitabh Mitra

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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Book Reviews
A Remembrance and a Review
  - A Way Through the Woods - Aminuddin Khan 
Aminuddin Khan - A Hyderabadi Writer Par Excellence
Down Memory Lane - Ravi Govender 
Events in the Indian Mutiny of 1857 
Mortal Remains of an Indian Conscience 

Cinema   
Aparna Sens's 15 Park Avenue  

Literary Shelf 
The Search for Shangri - La    

Memoirs
Congo Connection  
JS - Not just a Magazine 
Remembering Zimbabwe of Old  

Opinion  
A Killing Most Foul  
A Road for Prof. Papiya Ghosh 
Chandan Mitra, The Real Winner 
Conspiracy Gwalior 
Faces from Gwalior 
Lalgarh - Is it liberated 
Papiya Ghosh: From JS to an End 

Photo Essay 
Glimpses of Gwalior  

Poetry
A Ghazal 
A Long Drawn Night     
A Poem  
Aavantika There...
An Evening  
And, I Love you More    
And, Then Again the Sun  
And You?  
Avantika and Beyond 
Can It Be You, Aavantika  
Cannabis Blues 
Chironji 
Darfur 
December in Johannesburg 
Do You Remember Then, Avantika?  
Dokkhiney Hawa (Translation)
Far 
Gwalior Again  
Gwalior There ...  
Gwalior Unraveled  
Haveli 
Home Again  
How Much Do You Miss Me?  
I Have Seen  
I Have Watched   
I Knew Him 
I Live For You  
I Never Knew of Such Seasons 
I Spoke to You Once  
It Has Been Raining 
It Rained 
It Was Yet Another Train 
It's Here...   
Jacaranda Flowers 
Koiee Hai  
Kolkata 
Kool Kats of Calcutta 
Loving You 
Manjit Bawa Passes Away 
Mumbai, I Bequeath My Death 
Musings of a Fractured Sunset - Tales from Gwalior
My Ma 
Nights 
Not Even A Noon Street 
Old Delhi Days 
On a Day Like This 
One Day  
Peepul Tree 
Please Don't Go Now 
Rain in Gwalior 
Red Flowers 
Remembering Papiya Ghosh 
Ritual Silences  
Secrets  
Sometimes It Happens  
Somewhere 
Summers 

Summers in Delhi 
Tapan Sinha Left us Today 
The Gwalior Fort 
The Mirror 
There is a River 
There Was A Rain Once  
Thimpu 
Train to Gwalior  
When, Aavantika 
When Did You Arrive? 
Winter Nights in Gwalior Hiding 
You 
You: A Love Poem 
Your Garara Emblazoned  
You had Told me 
Zubeida