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Somdip Datta

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in Kolkata, India

Website

http://www.lilboox.com

Genre

Graphic Novels, Historical Fiction, Ebooks

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Somdip Datta combines his two interests - comic books, and Indian literature into creating graphic novels for the digital age.

He is an electrical engineer by education, with a B.Tech from I.I.T Kharagpur and a PhD from Princeton University. He has been a quantitative strategist in wall street for the last 13 years.

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	Seeds of War (The Lilboox Mahabharata Book 1) 3.98 avg rating — 153 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Illustrated Lilavati by Bhāskarācārya, Somdip Datta (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.64 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ambition (The Lilboox Mahabharata Book 2) 4.22 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lilboox Durga 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Wee willie winkie, under the deodars, the phantom rickshaw

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