About

Amitabh Mitra is Professor and Head of Emergency Medicine and Gender Based Violence in a busy public hospital in East London, South Africa.

A widely published poet in the web and print, Amitabh has been hailed as one of the most popular South African poets writing in English today by the Skyline Literary Review, New York.

Amitabh, now settled in South Africa, uses his experience of social interaction and cultural impact from countries like India, Bhutan, Niger and Zimbabwe where he worked under varying conditions, in his art and poetry.

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, palaces and places where he grew up.

A Slow Train to Gwalior is his collection of art and love poetry, published in a book, made into a film and exhibited as a solo exhibition titled, 'Gwalior, A City Within'