Tapan K Ghosh was a professor in Department of English, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata. After completing his term as Head of the Department, he took voluntary retirement and turned to creative writing. His stories have since then been published in the US and UK journals, one of them earning a place among the top-10 stories in a competitive event held in England, and later published in the anthology The Bus Stop Scheherazade and Other Stories.