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In the little Indian town of Bhagalpur, Bihar, Kumar Biswas was born on the day of an auspicious Saraswati puja. He attended a Christian convent run by the Patna Diocese when he was younger, and the Ramakrishna Mission at Narendrapur, West Bengal, India, was where he eventually finished his undergraduate studies. Under the guidance of two missionaries, he has been instilled with traits such as punctuality, ethics, rigorous discipline, altruism, etc.

His family is 'Indian'. His lone sibling is a Wing Commander (Retd.) from the Indian Air Force, and his late father worked for Indian Railways. He also spent almost a quarter of a century, working for Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. His time spent residing in and providing services for seven Indian states - Bihar, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal, has given him a unique perspective on the nation's rich cultural legacy. He has grown to deeply understand and respect the various traditions and rituals that make up the fabric of Indian society, as well as the natural beauty of each location.

Late Shri B B Biswas was his father. You can see his beloved Sen-Raleigh bicycle in the backdrop. It belonged to the millions of bicycles produced in the Kanyapur, Asansol facility, which was founded in 1952. For many years, the business dominated the Indian bicycle market as the sole producer and distributor.

(Picture courtesy: Late Shri Pranab Kumar Ghosh. Timeline: Early 1960s.)

Academically, he did double bachelors, viz., a B.Sc. with Chemistry Honours, followed by a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from the University of Calcutta, West Bengal. He completed his MBA in International Business from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi. Has undergone a logistics and supply chain management course in Oxford, U.K.

Professionally, as a technocrat, he was on deputation to the then Oil Coordination Committee and later at the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India, as Joint Director (Operations). Subsequently, he worked in the private sector of petroleum business in India and Africa. He gained rich international exposure for oil and gas businesses in East African countries, viz., Burundi, Congo, Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zambia, etc. In connection with petroleum business, he has travelled widely all over the country and across the world - Abu Dhabi and Dubai, Bhutan, France, Kenya, London and Oxford, Tanzania, Zanzibar, etc.

He is an energy philatelist, i.e. he collects postage stamps and allied materials on energy (oil, gas, and renewable energy) from all over the world. He participates in different state-level philately exhibitions in India.

He is a passionate blogger. On his blog page, with nearly 50 stories on various topics, global readership has crossed 29,000 marks by readers from more than 100 countries around the world.