Biku Ghosh

Born in Joteram village in West Bengal, India, Biku Ghosh worked in the UK as a specialist surgeon for over forty years and now lives in Ivybridge, Devon, UK. Apart from travelling to over seventy-five countries on all seven continents, he has worked as a volunteer in twelve countries on five continents. Biku continues to work as a community and international volunteer.

‘As you get older, three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two,’ said Norman Wisdom. His latest book, 'I was there – I think,' is a collection of fictional short stories about lives with dementia, other disabilities and global health inequalities. The principal theme of this collection is looking at a humane yet colourful world, in case we forget.

100% of the net proceeds from this book will go to Alzheimer’s Society

Biku was earlier awarded OBE in recognition of his Wales-based teams’ efforts in building and developing health links with Africa, particularly Ethiopia. But as a strong critic of imperialism’s historical, cultural, and political contexts and its international legacy, he later returned the honour given out in the name of a non-existent empire. His first book, published in 2018, ‘Indian Immigrant’, a historical fiction, tells stories of Indian immigrants over the last four centuries not as an offshoot of race relations but from their lived perspectives. ‘We looked for workers. We got people instead.’- wrote Max Frisch. This book depicts how colonialism powerfully altered what being ‘Indian’ meant culturally and legally in Britain for the immigrants themselves but from their lived perspectives.

His book ‘Around the world in 65 years’, published in 2020, is a memoir of travelling seven continents: visiting Antarctica, the North Pole, the Galapagos and climbing mountains. Also, about sharing the human spirit during volunteering in twelve countries on five continents.

His last book, published in 2021 for young adults, ‘How did it all start? Where did we come from?’ includes the origin of our universe, the evolution of life and the human journey on earth, plus 48 creation stories from our ancestors from every continent.