Researching Kamal Tanti

He is a nominated Member of Assamese Language Advisory Board of Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi. He belongs to the Tea-garden labour Community in Assam. His first collection of poetry Marangburu Amar Pita (Our Father Marangburu), published in 2007, won him the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar for 2012, and the Munin Barkotoki Literary Award for 2008. His second collection of Assamese poetry Uttar-Ouponibeshik Kabita (Post-colonial Poems) has been published recently in July, 2018 (Publisher: Papyrus, Guwahati). His Assamese poems have been included in various anthologies of Assamese poetry and featured in various journals in Assamese. He writes fiction occasionally and few of his short-stories have been included in several anthologies of Assamese fiction. Kamal’s first collection of prose in Assamese Nimnaborgo Somaaj Oitijya (Subaltern Society's Legacy), published in 2007, was composed of critical essays on Subaltern historiography and Post-colonial theory, with specific reference to colonial history and cultures of Assam. This book was selected as one of the "Ten Best Books" among all the Assamese books that has been published during the year 2007-08, by Grantha-Bandhab (Friends of Books), a well-known organization in Assam. His second collection of critical essays Uttar-Ouponibeshik Somaluchona (Post-colonial Criticism) is due for publication by the end of 2018.

Kamal’s English poems have appeared in many journals, including Indian Literature, The Little Magazine, Muse India, Kavya Bharati, Pyrta, Exchanges Literary Journal, Cerebration, NELit Review, Kritya, Visual Verse, Brown Critique, Steer Queer, etc. His poems also included in several anthologies of English poems, including 40 Under 40: an anthology of Post-Globalization Poetry, Shout It Out! Anthology, The World I Write In, etc.

Kamal has a PhD in Astronomy & Astrophysics, for which he worked at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai and Gauhati University, Guwahati. Kamal worked for a leading Telematics company in Mumbai, and was a Modeling and Simulation Engineer with a software company in Pune. He was also closely associated with the "Design, calibration & testing of Ultra-Violet Imaging Telescope (UVIT)", onboard Astrosat, the first Indian Multi-wavelength satellite for astronomical observations, to be launched by Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), in 2016. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor of Physics at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Assam Centre and lives in Sivasagar, Assam, India.