A collection of essays on the leading lights of 19th Century Bengal Renaissance. Foreward by Biman Basu, introduction by Anunay Chattopadhyay PP 582 Price Rs. 250
First published in 1995 containing articles on 37 leading personalities of 19th century Bengal. Enlarged and revised 2nd edition published in 2007 containing articles on 49 personalities and a list of 484 names who are considered to have played important parts in Bengal’s social life.

Personalities who have been discussed are :

James Augustus Hicky, William Carey, Rammohun Roy, Lalan Fakir, David Hare, D.W. Bethune, Alexander Duff, Henry Louis Vivian Derozio, , Ishwarchandra Gupta, Radhanath Shikdar, Ramtanu Lahiri, Rev. Krishnamohan Bandyopadhyay, James Long, Pearychand Mitra, Ramgopal Ghosh, Dwarakanath Bidyabhusan, Akshaykumar Dutta, Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar, Rajendralal Mitra, Sashi Chandra Dutta, Michael Madhusudan Dutta, Harish Chandra Mukherjee, Lalbehari De, Rajnarayan Basu, Dinabandhu Mitra, Kangal Harinath, Mahendralal Sarkar, Hemchandra Bandyopadhyay, Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay, Kaliprasanna Singha, Sisir Kumar Ghosh, Girish Chandra Ghosh, Jogendranath Vidyabhusan, Shibnath Shastri, Mir Masharaf Hossain, Ramesh Chandra Dutt, Swarnakumar Debi, Ashwini Kumar Dutta, Taru Dutta, Jagadish Chandra Basu, Brahma Bandhab Upadhyay, Rabindranath Tagore, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy, Swami Vivekananda, Satish Chandra Mukhopadhyay, Sister Nivedita, Sarala Debi Chaudhurani, Begum Rokeya, Bhupendra Nath Dutta

A collection of 19 articles, 4 interviews, 8 reportages and one play – all dedicated to the memory of Safdar Hashmi, dramatist, theatre director, actor and political activist who was killed by goons engaged by the then ruling party of India and who would have been 50 in 2004. Writers include Satya Bandyopadhyay, Hiren Bhattacharya, Srijib Goswami, Indranath Bandyopadhyay, Kuntal Mukhopadhyay, Arun Mukhopadhyay, Prabir Guha, Sima Sarkar, Nripendra Saha, Tirthankar Chanda, Asish Goswami, Bisnu Basu, Arindam Chattopadhyay, Bhisam Sahni, Habib Tanvir, Sudhanwa Deshpande, Sagar Biswas, Mannan Hira, Israfin Shahin.

Interviews by Utpal Dutta (by Asish Datta), Chris Milado (by Lucy Barnes), Safdar Hasmi (one by Shudrak and the other by Eugene von Erven) are attractions of the book. Also contains a play (Rakta Theke Janma : Born out of Blood) by Shib Sharma.

Language : Bengali, First published 2006, pp 212, Price Rs. 80.00

A Collection of essays in memory of Sukanta Bhattacharya, published on the occasion of his 75th birth anniversary. Contains 16 articles, two reprints (one by Muzaffar Ahmed and the other by Manik Bandyopadhyay) and a life-sketch, with foreword by Hirenderanath Mukhopadhyay, eminent parliamentarian of India and a doyen in the progressive cultural movement. Writers include Kalpataru Sengupta, Arun Kumar Basu, Pabitra Sarkar, Hiren Bhattacharya, Ashok Bhattacharya, Manigopal Basu, Krishna Dhar, Pranab Chattopadhyay, Anunay Chattopadhyay, Jyotirmoy Ghosh, Samir Rakshit, Indranath Bandyopadhyay, Barid Baran Chakraborty, Anirban Datta, Kamal Aich and Arindam Chattopadhyay.

First published in April 2003 Cover Design by Kamal Aich Size : Demy Octavo PP 164 Price INR 75.00

A collection of 19 articles, 4 interviews, 8 reportages and one play – all dedicated to the memory of Safdar Hashmi, dramatist, theatre director, actor and political activist who was killed by goons engaged by the then ruling party of India and who would have been 50 in 2004. Writers include Satya Bandyopadhyay, Hiren Bhattacharya, Srijib Goswami, Indranath Bandyopadhyay, Kuntal Mukhopadhyay, Arun Mukhopadhyay, Prabir Guha, Sima Sarkar, Nripendra Saha, Tirthankar Chanda, Asish Goswami, Bisnu Basu, Arindam Chattopadhyay, Bhisam Sahni, Habib Tanvir, Sudhanwa Deshpande, Sagar Biswas, Mannan Hira, Israfin Shahin.

Interviews by Utpal Dutta (by Asish Datta), Chris Milado (by Lucy Barnes), Safdar Hasmi (one by Shudrak and the other by Eugene von Erven) are attractions of the book. Also contains a play (Rakta Theke Janma : Born out of Blood) by Shib Sharma.

Language : Bengali, First published 2006, pp 212, Price Rs. 80.00