By profession, Devasis is a corporate reputation advisor and a brand strategist. By passion, he is a columnist and a writer. Devasis completed his graduation in commerce from Calcutta University, followed by a post-graduate diploma in PR, as well as executive certificate courses from IIM (Calcutta) and Harvard Business School. Initially, he chose his career in advertising, but later on, he took up Public Relations as his calling. Since the early 1980s, he has been writing freelance nonfiction features during his spare time for various Indian newspapers and magazines. After nearly two decades of writing, his articles became few and far between due to varied domestic and overseas senior executive roles and assignments, Currently, Devasis divides his time between Kolkata and Mumbai. Harry Hobbs of Kolkata and Other Forgotten Lives is his second book and first non-fiction. He wrote his first novel, Without Prejudice, in 2017.
