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Kotia to Ketaki: At Home Away from Home

Authors: Ketaki Sarkar and Chandana Dey Pages: 186 Year of Publication: 2025 Price: ₹800 / $20 (USD) ISBN: 978-81-985733-0-8 (9788198573308) About the Authors Russian by birth, Ketaki Sarkar (1907-98) met and married Nitai Sarkar (1905-61) in Switzerland, following which both came to India in 1934. Ketaki taught French at the Alliance Française and Ramakrishna Mission in Calcutta, worked in the Government School (now College) of Art and made products for the Bengal Home Industries emporium. Chandana Dey, granddaughter of Ketaki, was […]

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Eros ~ Ruminations on Love in Prose and Verse

Author: Asad Latif Pages: 66 Year of Publication: 2022 Price: Rs 300 / $10 ISBN: 978-81-958199-6-6 (9788195819966) About the Author Asad-ul Iqbal Latif is an editorial writer for The Straits Times, Singapore. He was born in Calcutta in 1957 and studied at Calcutta Boys’ School. He graduated with Honours in English from Presidency College, Calcutta, and read History for his Master of Letters degree at Clare Hall, Cambridge, where he was a Chevening Scholar. He also was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar […]

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Amar Jiban (My Life)

Author: Rassundari Devi Translator: Enakshi Chatterjee Pages: 132 Year of Publication: First published 1999 (English translation), Reprint 2016, Corrected edition 2020, Corrected and expanded 3rd edition 2022 Price: Rs 300 ISBN: 978-81-958199-2-8 (9788195819928) About the Book The complete, unabridged translation of the Bengali text, with the original introductions by Jyotirindranath Tagore and Dinesh Chandra Sen. Sen remarks, “The account of this life can hardly be ignored as merely personal. It is a factual document of the life of an old Hindu woman … […]

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Amar Jiban (My Life)

Author: Rassundari Devi Translator: Enakshi Chatterjee Pages: 128 Year of Publication: First published 1999 (English translation), Reprint 2016, Corrected edition 2020 Price: Rs 300 ISBN: 978-81-944057-9-5 (9788194405795) About the Book The complete, unabridged translation of the Bengali text, with the original introductions by Jyotirindranath Tagore and Dinesh Chandra Sen. Sen remarks, “The account of this life can hardly be ignored as merely personal. It is a factual document of the life of an old Hindu woman … The book Amar Jiban is thus not […]

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Vignettes of Valour

Author: Abhijit C. Chandra Pages: 76 Year of Publication: 2019 Price: Rs 300 ISBN: 978-81-944057-1-9 (9788194405719) About the Author Born on February 19, 1975, Abhijit C. Chandra originally hails from Kolkata and has lived in Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad, Chennai and New Delhi. He completed his Bachelor of Arts in History in 1995 and began working as a freelance journalist in Delhi the following year. He joined the United News of India news agency in February 1998 and was posted at the company’s […]

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Books by Joe Winter

Joe Winter was born in London in 1943 and began writing poetry at the age of 19, as a university student. He taught English in secondary schools in London from 1967 to 1993 and between 2006 and 2011. He lived in Calcutta from 1994 to 2006 where he taught part-time as well. All his books of poems have been published by Writers Workshop, India, along with works of literary criticism and translations. You can visit his blog here. Poetry – Redbirds: Homage to […]

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The Mahabharata TV Film Script

Comprising 10 volumes, The Mahabharata TV Film Script covers the complete dialogues of all 93 episodes with synopses and scenario directions of the mammoth Doordarshan serial, translated by Satish Bhatnagar and Sashi Magan from the Hindi of Masoom Reza. Volume 10 also includes an extensive critique of the script by Dr Pradip Bhattacharya. For customers living within India, Volumes 1 to 9 are priced at Rs 150 each and Volume 10 at Rs 250. Shipping charges outside of Kolkata are additional. Customers […]

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A Speck in the Universe

Author: Nita B. George Pages: 136 Year of Publication: 2018 Price: Rs 300 ISBN: 978-93-5045-174-8 (9789350451748) About the Author Poet and short-story writer Nita B. George retired as an Associate Professor of English after an active teaching career of 37 years. She is a graduate from St. Francis College for Women, Secunderabad, and an alumnus of the Department of English, Arts College, Osmania University. She started writing late in her life and her first collection of poems, Reflections, was published in 2012. This was followed by […]

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The Concept of Equality

Author: Susmita Bhattacharya Pages: 244 Year of Publication: First published 2002, second edition 2018 Price: Rs 500 ISBN: 978-93-5045-170-0 (9789350451700) About the Author Susmita Bhattacharya was born in Calcutta in 1947. She received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Poona University in 1975. Her thesis, ‘A Critical Study of the Concept of Equality’ was awarded the university’s Gurudev Ranade Damle Prize. With a scholarship from AJC Bose College in Calcutta, she passed her B. Ed. in 1989. Dr. Bhattacharya combines her academic and social interests with […]

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Three Seasons

Author: Latha Anantharaman Pages: 128 Year of Publication: 2015 Price: Rs 250 ISBN: 978-93-5045-109-0 (9789350451090) About the Author Latha Anantharaman is a writer, editor, translator and perpetual student of literature. Her articles, essays and book reviews have appeared in The Hindu (where for four years she wrote a fortnightly column on books and reading), The Sunday Herald, The Indian Review of Books, Business Standard (which brought out her series on crime fiction) and many other publications. Her articles on travel have appeared […]

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