Education
He was educated in India and at Columbia University, United States.
He was educated in India and at Columbia University, United States.
Deb began his career in journalism as a sports journalist in Calcutta in 1994 before moving to Delhi to continue regular journalism until 1998. His first novel, The Point of Return, is semi-autobiographical in nature and is set in a fictional hill-station that closely resembles Shillong in India"s Northeast. His first non-fiction book, The Beautiful And the Damned: A Portrait of the New India was published in June 2011 by He has also contributed to The Boston Globe, The Guardian, The Nation, New Statesman, Harper"s, the London Review of Books, and The Times Literary Supplement.
He currently teaches creative writing at The New School in New New York
2012 Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association/Open Book, The Beautiful and the Damned: Life in the New India.