Thema Books , New Books

New Books:

	Anu Paramanu DEBABRATA DHAR
	23 x15 cm. Hb. 78pp, Bengali. 2024. RS. 200. ISBN 978-93-5104-596-0
	A Collection of sixteen short stories by Debabrata Dhar on the learning of music with a touch of science and a deep philosophical insight - amusing and reffective.

Samay Katuk Chhadiyey Chhada AMAL SANYAL
22.5 x14.5 cm. Hb. xiii+90pp, Bengali. 2024. RS. 200. ISBN 978-93-81703-97-7
Amal Sanyal, follows the tradition of Sukumar Roy , Subhas Mukhopadhyay etc to reach out to the troubled times that he sees around him and remembers in the past. He puts his thoughts in rhythm and challenges us to laugh with him.

	Seven Decades of My Tryst With Table Tennis Probir Mitra
	24.0 cm. x 16.4 cm, HB, 2024. Xiii+190 pp. English, 2024, Rs. 500/-, ISBN: 978-81-966889-7-4
	Seven Decades of My Tryst With Table Tennis is the story of the love and passion of a spiritually motivated individual for the beautiful sports discipline of Table Tennis which touched the soft chord of his mind as a child, when he witnessed his first table tennis match between two maestros of this beautiful game- a superb demonstration of their mastery of the craft, the dynamic movement of all the organs of their bodies producing virtual ballet on the green table and sheer joy for the spectators.

Despair and Defiance: The Worker in Indian Cinema Vidyarthy Chatterjee
Cover Design by Shankar S. 21.7x14.2cm. Pb. xiv+96 pp. English. 2023. Rs.250. ISBN 978-81-966889-0-5.
In his second book of film criticism, Vidyarthy Chatterjee opens up a little explored area of the New Indian Cinema-the representation of Indian worker in his / her various work situations, encounters, experience and attitudes.

	Dibasundari o anyanya sundarira SUPRIYA DAS GUPTA
	Cover Design by Ballari Mukherjee. 21.7x14 cm. Pb. iv+80pp. Bengali.2023. Rs.125 ISBN 978-81-966889-6-7.
	Why this book of fiction has remained virtually unnoticed for so long after its was first publishing twenty-five years ago in an absolute wonder. This expanded second edition deserves to be considered a discovery. Devastated by betrayal, deprivation, neglect, humiliation, the women in her stories are approaching death. Despite the wide variation in socio-economic status, the extreme loneliness of these women terrible. This remains the only literary work of fiction of Supriya Das Gupta (25th March 1922- 9th February 2010).

Takeoffs on Tagore Chidananda Das Gupta
Cover design by Ajay Gupta,19x12.6 cm. Hb. Viii+26pp. English.2023. Rs.125.
Better known as an outstanding cultural critic, and one of the founding fathers of film society movement in India, Chidananda Das Gupta (1921-2011) was an eminent translator of poetry, best known for his translation of Jibanananda Das , the iconic Bengali poet. In the seven translations from Tagore, found among his papers after his death, he captures a wide spectrum of the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore, covering his love poetry from the 1890’s, in the distinctive mythical-romantic mode, to his response in the late 1930’s to the gathering clouds of World War II.

	Visva-Bharati 1921-2021 A Vision Betrayed SUSHANTA DATTAGUPTA
	14.5x22 cm. xviii+179 pp. Hb. English.2021.Rs. 550. ISBN 978-93-81703-89-2.
	As Visva-Bharati at Santiniketan, the University with a difference that Rabindranath Tagore conceived and founded, completes a hundred years, a distinguished physicist and former Vice-Chancellor, shares in this unusual book his 'rediscovery' of this institution with its rich body of associations, memories and continuing traditions, even as he negotiated with its daily administration and curriculum alike; as well as his concern for its future, with signs of its decline showing up; the concern in its turn leading up to ground plan for its restitution.

THE ANT WARS Narrator MADHUCHHANDA KARLEKAR Illustration & Design ALAY KUMAR GHOSHAL
18.5x19.5 cm. Pb, 72 pp. English.2021.Rs. 150. ISBN 978-93-81703-85-4.
The red ants and the black prepare for battle. Read about these amazing creatures, their friends and foes, in the story by Girindra Shekhar Bose, translated by Madhuchhanda in verse and prose.

	Dakghar ("The Post Office, 1912) RABINDRANATH TAGORE Retold by KALYANI GHOSE Illustrated by DEBABRATA GHOSE
	18x19 cm.Pb. 34 pp.English.2023. Rs 120. ISBN 978-93-81703-95-3.
	A little boy, sick to the core, forbidden to step out of his house, spends his time at a window, making friends with strange passersby-a curd-seller, a fakir, a girl selling flowers, a group of boys, a postman, a timekeeper who rings his gong every hour- and imagines a whole rich world full of wonders that he will never visit. A sad story but full of the sheer magic of imagination, a masterpiece by Tagore.

Ei Je Pother Ei Dekha APARAJITA DASGUPTA
21 x 13.9cm.Pb. X+134pp.Bengali .2023. Rs.220.ISBN 978-93-81703-96-0.
On the way of life, the writer is touched by all the places and peoples and people who want to tie his little life in a strange magic bond, his pieces are captured in this book. Those places are sometimes Dhaka, Barisal, or Khulna, sometimes Bibhui across the sea, sometimes the suburbs or and on the outskirts of Calcutta. Sometimes all those people are his family members, sometimes Sikh taxi drivers immersed in Rabindranath, or sometimes the world-famous scientist Stephen Hawking. This book is gentle narrative of the wonderful wonders of life that are laid loosely in our consciousness by entwining all these things. Aparajita Dasgupta has taught history in various government colleges in the state and St. Mary’s College, USA, and is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the West Bengal State Book Board. In addition to researching and writing about women in Bengali Hindu gentry thought and Bengali nationalist movements in late 19th and early 20th centuries, Aparajita is a devoted exponent of Bengali literature, publishing stories such as Surer Smriti, Smritir Sur (2001) and Ichher Gach O Anaya(2014), and the novel Chayapath.(2009). Three more of her new books are being publishing this year, the novel Aakashpradeep, the collection of essays Batrish Bhaja, and the collection of juvenile texts Panchphodon.

	Human Resource Management in the days of John Company: 1790-1850 SHARMISTHA DE
	Cover design by Ajay Gupta, 24x16 cm Hb.xvi+260 pp,English.2023,Rs.695. ISBN 978-93-81703-90-8.
	Sarmistha De’s probing study of a rich body of archival material documenting the administrative and financial transactions of the British East India company in India, opens up for the first time the internal politics of a colonial system engaged in handling foreign and local employees sharing the burden of trading and governing simultaneously in unequal and discriminatory relations; and building up in the process the dynamics and culture of a proto-state to be eventually emulated in Britain itself slightly later.

Ei Je Pother Ei Dekha APARAJITA DASGUPTA
21 x 13.9cm.Pb. X+134pp.Bengali .2023. Rs.220.ISBN 978-93-81703-96-0.
On the way of life, the writer is touched by all the places and peoples and people who want to tie his little life in a strange magic bond, his pieces are captured in this book. Those places are sometimes Dhaka, Barisal, or Khulna, sometimes Bibhui across the sea, sometimes the suburbs or and on the outskirts of Calcutta. Sometimes all those people are his family members, sometimes Sikh taxi drivers immersed in Rabindranath, or sometimes the world-famous scientist Stephen Hawking. This book is gentle narrative of the wonderful wonders of life that are laid loosely in our consciousness by entwining all these things. Aparajita Dasgupta has taught history in various government colleges in the state and St. Mary’s College, USA, and is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the West Bengal State Book Board. In addition to researching and writing about women in Bengali Hindu gentry thought and Bengali nationalist movements in late 19th and early 20th centuries, Aparajita is a devoted exponent of Bengali literature, publishing stories such as Surer Smriti, Smritir Sur (2001) and Ichher Gach O Anaya(2014), and the novel Chayapath.(2009). Three more of her new books are being publishing this year, the novel Aakashpradeep, the collection of essays Batrish Bhaja, and the collection of juvenile texts Panchphodon.

	Shabhyatar Oshukh ANURADHA RAY
	Cover design by Ajay Gupta.21.3 x14.2cm.Pb. X+293pp. Bengali. 2022. Rs.300 .ISBN 978-93-81703-94-6.
	Anuradha Roy, Professor of History at Jadavpur University, has been researching and writing on the history of culture and thought, especially the nationalism and leftism of the Bengali middle-class gentry. Linking ethics to meditation, he now enters another line of inquiry, which he names research ‘deep history’, characterizing his methodology as ‘neurological history’. She describes its ‘an attempt to understand human history and more fundamentally human nature in the paradigm of the dialectic of body and culture, combining brain and body chemistry; And from there the search for the human liberation’. standing in the face of that searching journey, Anuradha Roy broke the familiar patten of essay and opened up the present time in a free argument of judgment and sympathy, in exchange of another type of dialogue, its huge variety.

Ekush shotoker Suchonaye: Rashtra, Poribesh, Narishwar Kalyan Moitra Smarak Bhashonmala 8-10 APARAJITA DASGUPTA, ANITA AGNIHOTRI, JAYA Maitra
Cover design by Ajay Gupta, 21.9 x14.2cm.Pb.56pp .Bengali.2023.Rs. 100. ISBN 978-93-81703-98-4.
In the third collection of speeches dedicated to the memory of Kalyan Maitra (1937-2010), the terrible shrinking of public rights and environment in the decade of the new century due to the evil entanglement and egocentricism of the state power of capital, and critical utterance and warnings of women’s voice from the bottom of the crisis. From the Forum for Film Studies and Allied Art and the Cine Academy.

	Chhorar Hanaye Shomoy Amar AMAL SANYAL
	Cover design by Ajay Gupta. 21.3x 13.9cm,Pb .vi+128pp,Bengali. 2023. Rs. 225. ISBN 978-93-81703-97-7.
	According to the worldview of the eminent economist Amal Sanyal, when various conflicts such as, India, space, imagination, science and technology, contemporary politics come up, then the thought transcends from just the theoretical thinking to a satire of daily reactions sprinkled with puns and flows into the old dimension of rhyme, sharpening the reader’s intellect, judgment and prompting questions. This is another form of examining contemporary.

Chhora Gulo aktu Kora ANURADHA RAY 22.5 x14.5 cm. Hb. xii+68pp, Bengali. 2023. Rs. 150. ISBN 978-93-81703-92-2.

Anuradha Roy, Professor of History at Jadavpur University, is a respected author of significant research and critique on the historical reconstruction and adjudication of the intertwining of left-wing thought and culture in undivided ‘Bengali’ and partitioned ‘West Bengal’. But every time she turned her attention, from the depths of that hard work to the changing society around her and the middle-class population stirred by the persecution of that time, her reaction was revealed with dark humour.

	Bangaler Lear Darshan (A Bangal reads Lear). EDWARD LEAR’s limericks translated by ARGHA
	72pp Rs. 150. ISBN 978-93-81703-81-6
	Bangaler Lear Darshan (A Bangal reads Lear). EDWARD LEAR’s limericks translated by ARGHA into Bangal, the patois spoken in the eastern part of Bengal, the present Bangladesh, and migrants from there to the present West Bengal. 2020. Rs 150.

Chomke dekhi aarey (What a surprise!) Limericks by DIPANKAR DASGUPTA
Pb.64 pp. Rs. 150. ISBN 978-93-81703-80-9
Chomke dekhi aarey (What a surprise!). Limericks by DIPANKAR DASGUPTA, distinguished economist, inspired by Ogden Nash, illustrated by yet another distinguished economist, AMAL SANYAL. 2020. Rs 150.

	Spooky Encounter Sumanta Banerjee , Transkated by Shampa Banerjee
	126 pp. Rs. 250. ISBN 978-93-81703-74-8

Asha-dir deowa khatakhani by Sampurna Devi
2020 PB Rs.350 ISBN 978-93-81703-77-9
Autobiographical fiction, occasional pieces, and poetry. A collection of autobiographical fiction, occasional pieces, and poetry by SAMPURA DEVI (1911-86), recovered from her unpublished manuscripts written in her sixties and seventies, after the death of her husband who had sternly told her on her wedding night that she would not be allowed to print anything she wrote. The last piece in the collection is a diary piece on suicide she wrote exactly 76 days before she set herself on fire and killed herself. Her return to writing was prompted by a notebook presented to her by her elder sister, Ashapurna Devi, a major novelist herself. 2019. Rs 350.

	Gato Diner Jato Katha: Sekalini Antahpurikader Jeebanbrittanto Kalyani Dutta
	136 pp. Rs. 175. ISBN 978-93-81703-72-4
	(Accounts from the past: the hidden lives of Bengali women, 1890s-1950s). A selection of case studies of a wide range of Bengali women, drawn from different social strata, from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, as documented by Kalyani Dutta (1927-2003), celebrated chronicler-historian of women in Bengal. 2018.

Moshgul Sibani Raychaudhury
Hb. 114 pp. 17 b/w photographs. Rs. 100. ISBN 978-93-81703-64-9
"Fiction for Young Readers"

	Ajitesh er shesh thikana by Ratna Bandyopadhyay
	Hb. Rs. 375. ISBN 978-93-81703-78-6
	Reminiscences of Ajitesh Bandyopadhyay (1933-1983) director-actor, in his last years Reminiscences of Ajitesh Bandyopadhyay (1933-83), an outstanding Bengali actor-director, in his last years, written by his partner, RATNA BANDYOPADHYAY, who passed away recently; the only authentic biography of the master. 2019. Rs 375.

Suryamukhir Alo Translated from original Russian
2020 PB Rs.160 ISBN 978-93-81703-82-3
Stories for children by Lev Tolstoi Original fables by LEV TOLSTOI, written for the school for peasants’ children he had started in Yasnaya Polyana, translated from the original Russian by KAUSHIK GUHA, illustrated by DEBABRATA GHOSH; with a short biography of the great writer, introducing the Master to children. 2020. Rs 160.

	Rabindragaaner Gabheerey by Rebanta Bose
	Hb. Rs. 300. ISBN 978-93-81703-79-3
	An in-depth spiritual reading of a selection of songs by Rabindranath Tagore

Alo Chhayar ranger Khela Sibani Raychaudhury With additional notes by Samik Bandyopadhyay
Pb.162 pp. Rs. 150. ISBN 978-93-81703-73-1
Stories about Leonardo. Monet, Cezanne, Degas and Van Gogh