Biku Ghosh - From the Beginning to Somewhere
Sunday 16th October, 2022
14.45 – 15.45 Workshop 4: Biku Ghosh
'From the Beginning to Somewhere – Tell and Script Your Own Story about Living with Disability'
In this workshop we will share and hear stories about our lives, either living with disabilities ourselves or people that we care for (relatives or friends). We will then put those stories into our own writings to read to others.
Born in Joteram village, West Bengal, India, Biku Ghosh worked in the UK as a specialist surgeon for over forty years. Apart from travelling to over 75 countries on all seven continents, he has worked as a volunteer in twelve countries on five continents. While continuing with his international volunteering, currently, he also regularly works as a community volunteer.
Biku was earlier awarded OBE in recognition of his Wales-based teams’ efforts in building and developing health links with Africa, with Ethiopia in particular. But as a strong critic of imperialism’s historical, cultural, and political contexts and its international legacy, he later decided to return the honour given out in the name of a non-existent empire.
His first book, ‘Indian Immigrant’, historical fiction about how colonialism powerfully altered what being ‘Indian’ meant culturally and legally in Britain for the immigrants, was published in 2018. His travel memoir ‘Around the world in 65 years,’ was published in 2020. His book for young adults, ‘How did it all start? Where did we come from?’ published in 2021, includes the origin of our universe, the evolution of life and the human journey on earth, plus creation stories from our ancestors from every continent. His new book, ‘I think - I was there,’ is a collection of fictional stories about people with dementia, other disabilities and global health inequalities.
