Chandrachur Ghose is an author, columnist and public speaker on history, politics, economics, and environment. He graduated from Visva Bharati (Santiniketan) and the University of Sussex. He was a Fellow at the Foundation for Indian Historical and Cultural Research (FIHCR) during 2024-25.
Ghose left his two decades’ career as an environmentalist and a business strategy consultant in 2018 to become a full-time author. His books, all of which have been national bestsellers, include Conundrum: Subhas Bose’s Life After Death (2019, Vitasta Publishing, co-authored), the definitive biography of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, Bose: The Untold Story of an Inconvenient Nationalist (2022, Penguin Random House), 1947-57, India: The Birth of a Republic (2023, Penguin Random House) and The Bose Deception (Penguin Random House, co-authored with Anuj Dhar).
His latest book Many Shades of Saffron: Decoding 100 Years of RSS (Rupa Publications) is now available across bookstores.