Sreyash Sarkar is a poet, a qualified painter, a practising Hindustani Classical musician, and an aspiring electrical engineer. Educated in Kolkata and Bangalore, he has been a student correspondent at The Statesman, Kolkata, from his school, South Point. In 2012, in an international poetry competition organized in memory of Yeats, his poem was shortlisted among 40 other poets from all over the world. His interview was published in the The Arty Legume, where he was asked to speak on cubism, existentialism in art and intrusion in painting. He has been extensively featured in The Gooseberry Bushes, Muses, The Literary Jewels, Tagore for us, The Country Cake-Stall, The Orange Orchard, etc. Besides, being a freelance writer for several magazines, he is the editor-in-chief of Kalomer Kalomishak, a bilingual magazine, which he founded in 2013. Read his poems: The Optical Symphony and The Cage.
