Arnab Ray | |
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Born | Kolkata, India |
Pen name | Greatbong |
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Language | English |
Nationality | Indian |
Education | BE, Jadavpur University PhD, Stony Brook University |
Genre | Satire Horror Crime-thriller Drama |
Years active | 2004–present |
Notable works | The Greatbong Blog May I Hebb Your Attention Pliss The Mine |
Website | |
greatbong |
Arnab Ray is an Indian novelist, blogger, podcaster who currently lives in the United States. While finishing his PhD at Stony Brook University,[1] he started his blog with the name Random Thoughts of a Demented Mind, in August 2004,[2] using Greatbong (bong is an Indian slang for Bengali) as his pen name. The blog focuses on satirical social and political commentary.
Ray embarked on his writing career with May I Hebb Your Attention Pliss, a non-fiction book that came out in 2010, and contained much of the commentary that Ray was known for by then through his blog. This was followed by The Mine, a psychological horror novel that came out in 2012, followed by books in the drama[3] and crime-thriller[4] genres. His last novel The Mahabharata Murders was adapted as a web series Mahabharat Murders on the Bengali OTT platform Hoichoi.[5][6]
In 2019, Ray renamed his blog as The Greatbong Blog and started a podcast called Attention Pliss!.[7][8][9]