✎ Writer · CSR Professional · Animal Incident Survivor

Anamitra
Dasgupta

Normal person.  Writer.  Owner of 3 8 28 animals.

I write about living with animals — which turns out to be mostly writing about love, chaos, grief, and the specific kind of loyalty that knocks your coffee off the table and then looks at you like you did it.

Debut book out February 2026 · f-words.in
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Anamitra Dasgupta with her animals
"I am a tenant.
Rent is paid in
broken lamps."
28 animals.
Zero regrets.
Several mops.
About

Who Am I

Anamitra Dasgupta
✎  Author — debut Feb 2026
🍳  Founder, Kmcho Canine
📍  Ahmedabad, Gujarat

I'm Anamitra. I write because my former boss Pankaj Ballabh once looked genuinely horrified that I hadn't read All Creatures Great and Small. That conversation became a book. The book became this website. The animals were already happening and nobody could stop them.

My writing lives at the precise intersection of real life and absolute bedlam — grief that is also funny, love that chews through a laptop charger, and loss you couldn't have prepared for even with nine years of professional crisis communications training.

← I have tried. They are not impressed by credentials.

By day — until recently — I was a communications professional with 9+ years of strategic storytelling across some of India's biggest corporates and NGOs — Bajaj Auto, WNS Global Services, Sightsavers, Care India, Akshaya Patra, and most recently IIM Ahmedabad. I'm an IIMC alumna. I know how to shape a message.

I left all of that a few months ago to start Kmcho Canine — a cloud kitchen for dogs. The animals, for once, appear to approve of a decision I've made.

Founder — Kmcho Canine (cloud kitchen for dogs)
Former Sr. Manager Communications — IIM Ahmedabad Endowment Fund
Ex-CSR & Communications Lead — Bajaj Auto Limited
Former CSR Head — WNS Global Services
Sightsavers · Care India · Akshaya Patra Foundation
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC) Alumna
The Real Reason

Why I Write

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Because love is messy and that's the point

Every animal I've ever lived with has been inconvenient, expensive, and completely irreplaceable. Writing is how I figure out what that means — and why I keep doing it anyway.

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Because grief is also a part of life

Loss doesn't always arrive with appropriate music. Sometimes it arrives while you're mopping the floor at 2am. I write about both the mop and the grief, because pretending one doesn't happen alongside the other is a lie.

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Because someone has to document this

There are 28 animals in this house, each with opinions, schedules, and deeply held views on where I am and am not allowed to sit. Future historians will need a record. I am simply doing my civic duty.

Writing

Things I've Put on Paper

Essays from inside a house that is 40% fur, 30% chaos, 20% genuine emotion, and 10% unidentifiable stains. All true. Mostly.

Life With Animals
The House of Hormones: When Everyone Is In Heat (Including Me)
It started with a blob of blood on the living room floor. My first thought was cats. Obviously. I was wrong.
4 Feb 2025 · from the book
Things That Hurt
Today I Bid Farewell to 10-Day-Old Violet
Some stories need to be told. Not because they end well, but because they happened, and that matters.
from the book, Chapter 4
Dry Observations
Honestly? Pixie Is Having a Better Love Life Than I Am
The Persian has three suitors. I'm defending a plate of momos with my elbows. This is Valentine's Day at my house.
14 Feb 2025 · from the book
Collateral Damage
It Was Fine. Until It Wasn't.
A porcelain lamp. A computer monitor. Two pet cameras. The sofa. A washing machine cover. A partial inventory of things that used to exist in my home.
from the book
On Grief
When Grief Changes Your Shape
You don't get over it. You get a different shape around it. The animals taught me that, each time I had to bury one.
from the book
On Leadership
The Secret Leadership Skills Every Pet Owner Develops
Negotiation. Crisis management. The ability to issue a command and be completely ignored. It's basically an MBA, except the faculty bites.
from the book · final section
Real Talk
India's Pet Market Is Worth Billions. I Still Hide My Cat from the Landlord.
On the indignity of loving animals in a country that hasn't decided how it feels about them.
from the book
Feminism, Loosely Defined
Mansplaining? My Pets Would Never.
Jagga has never once explained something to me I already knew. He just stares. Which is worse. But at least it's honest.
from the book
Love, Actually
No Strings Attached: How My Pets Perfected the Art of Agenda-Free Giving
They don't give you love because they want something back. They give you love, and then immediately want a biscuit. It's different.
from the book
Press & Media

What People Are Saying

A selection of coverage, endorsements, and things people said loudly enough that I wrote them down.

Bigfoot Publications
Furiously funny, quietly devastating, and entirely unlike anything we have published before. We say that with great affection.
— Publisher's note, First Edition 2026
Pankaj Ballabh, Former Manager
She did, eventually, read All Creatures Great and Small.
— The man who is an inspiration in himself
The Animals (collective statement)
We have no comment at this time. We were not consulted. The dedication is acceptable.
— Kaya, Jagga, Jiya, Coral, et al.
Hobbes the Cat, Upon Being Shown the Book Cover
Knocked it off the table. Could mean anything.
— Interpreted as a mixed review
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Want to say something about the book? Find me on Instagram @gangs_of_tailpur or on LinkedIn. I do read everything. Response times depend on who is sitting on the phone.
Official Record

Things I No Longer Own

A partial inventory. Updated regularly. Not by choice.

The sofa
Gone
Chewed into what I now call "sculptural seating." Guests are warned.
Laptop charger #1
Gone
Jiya. Cord hunting is her sport. She has a personal best.
Laptop charger #2
Gone
Coral, in solidarity.
Two pet cameras
Gone
Installed to monitor the pets. Destroyed by the pets. The irony remains unaddressed.
The computer monitor
Technically alive
Hobbes walked past. Just walked past. The screen now has opinions about brightness.
The washing machine cover
Gone
No witnesses. Strong suspicions. No confession forthcoming.
The balcony garden
Gone
The cats nap on the plants. The dogs pull them out for sport. It was lovely while it lasted (briefly).
A porcelain lamp
Gone
Hobbes spotted an insect above it. The lamp did not survive the investigation.
My dignity
Partial
Still present. Gets smaller every time I explain, at a dinner party, why I have 28 animals.
Sleep (uninterrupted)
Gone
Kaya logs on at 3am for reasons she has declined to share.

* This list does not include books, because that would require a separate page.

Frequently Asked Questions

As Answered by the Animals

Some questions come up a lot. I asked the residents to address them. Results below.

Q: Is it true you have 28 animals?
— Kaya, German Shepherd (possibly)
That number feels low to me personally but I cannot confirm as I have lost count of myself.
Q: How does Anamitra manage to write with all of you around?
— Hobbes, Ginger Cat
She sits at the desk. I sit on the keyboard. We have a system. I do not know what she is complaining about.
Q: Who is the most well-behaved?
— Jiya, Self-Appointed Household Authority
Me. Objectively. The others are chaos. I am simply territorial, which is different.
Q: Is the book accurate?
— Jagga, the Lone Male
I have not read it. I cannot read. But I have been told there is a chapter about me and I am choosing to feel neutral about this.
Q: What would you say to people thinking of getting a pet?
— Coral, Shih Tzu Who Thinks She Is a Cat
Do it. Get several. The human adjusts.
Q: Has living with animals changed Anamitra as a person?
— Aslan, The only ginger with a single brain cell
She cries at things more readily. She laughs at things more readily. She buys more mops. I think this is called growth.
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These days, when I'm not writing, I'm running Kmcho Canine — a cloud kitchen I started for dogs, because 28 animals will do that to a person. Turns out everything I learned about love, loyalty, and what animals actually need eventually had to go somewhere practical.

Instagram · Main
@gangs_of_tailpur
Daily dispatches from a house of 28. Fur on every surface. Accurate documentation of the ongoing situation.
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Instagram · Dogs
@kmcho_canine
Dedicated to the dogs, who have never acknowledged this account exists but would absolutely take credit for it.
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LinkedIn
Anamitra Dasgupta
For collaborations, speaking, communications work, or discussing the book. The animals don't have LinkedIn. Yet.
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The Book Website
Fur, Faith & Other F-Words That Followed
Cover, chapters, excerpts, and the buy link — all at f-words.in ↗. The book is also available on Amazon India.