Pravat Kumar Mandal Biography

Pravat Kumar Mandal, born on 2nd November,1970 in a small village Sankuria in the district of Murshidabad, State - West Bengal, Country - India, is an assistant teacher of a Government High. As a teacher he worked in Gayespur High School and Bagmara B.B.M. Vidyaniketan in the Murshidabad district, West Bengal, India, and at present he is working in Cossimbazar Mahajan Samity High School in the same district.
He currently lives at Berhampore, West Bengal, India with his wife Bobby Mandal, his daughter Arunima Mandal and his son Ayash Mandal. His mother lives in the village along with his two younger brothers and his other brother lives at a town named Balurghat in a nearby district. He received his primary education from his village pathsala where his father was the Headmaster. Then he studied at Amritakunda K. K. Vidyamandir and passed M.P. in 1987 under WBBSE and then H.S. Examination from Krishnath College School, Berhampore under WBCHSE. He passed B.A. Hons in English from Rampurhat College from The University of Burdwan in 1993. In this time he met an accident. Finally he received his M.A. degree in English from the same university in 1995. In 2001 he had been appointed as an assistant teacher. He received B.Ed. training from Katwa College in the same university in 2006.
Since childhood he is interested in literature, especially English Literature. He started creating poetry since childhood but they were few in number. Now he writes poems, essays, short stories both in Bengali and English. He has had several poems published and posted in facebook, poemhunter.com and many Bilingual Magazines.
His first book of Bengali poetry ATMASTHA, EK PRATIBAD was published in Mushidabad Book Fair 2020, Berhampore. This book consists of 61 poems. In between teaching he spends all his spare time writing poems and his poems have been read widely on the Internet and in print.