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₹200.00Genesis of eight selected short Stories by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay Learn More -
₹325.00A collection of essays on The Science and Art of Medical Care. Learn More -
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A montage of memories, legends and myths, the book discusses in detail, life and death, unnecessary egotism and man’s leaps before thought. To put it simply, it talks about the ebb and flow of human civilization as a whole. Ajoy Gupta’s soul-piercing style of writing, with hues of subtle humour echoes Gabriel Garcia Marquez as it reminds us, ‘Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it’. This book beckons not fear of living, but a grand celebration of life.
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₹325.00Many years after Baudelaire's aborted voyage to Calcutta, a child was born in a bylane of the city's suburb. He adopted a stray puppy and was himself adopted into a continent of words and images. One day, at a bend in the lane of his seedy, violence-torn neighbourhood, he discovered Garcia Marquez's Macondo. The magical journey has continued ever since: from cheap street fiction to Soviet-era literature, from the murky urban imagery of Jibananda Das's poetry to the cinema of Ingmar Bergman, it has taken him to a landscape that dreams up its own author, where a girl still waits amid the detritus of a lost civilization for the poet who had abandoned her. Genre-bending, and written in Parimal Bhattacharya's inimitable prose, Nahumer Gram O Onyanyo Museum celebrates artistic imagination in the teeth of dark times. Learn More -
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A collection of Prose in bengali by Swapan Chakravorty Learn More -
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Satgaonr Haoatantira : A Novel On the fish-shaped land between the rivers Hugli and Saraswati stood the ancient port city of Satgaon. For centuries, Arab, Chinese and European merchants have sailed in here, propelled by the mawsim winds. The Portuguese, the Dutch, the Danes and the French have set up trading posts. Here, upon this rich cosmopolitan landscape, a clan of Kanauji Brahmins had set up a home around a temple dedicated to Lord Ram. A girl from this clan marries a young archeologist, an East Bengalirefugee, who comes to Satgaon on a project. Bappaditya, their son, is the novel's hero. Since childhood, Bappa has been regularly coming with his motherto this magical land, riding a fairly-tale light railway train, a land where a church steeple caterwauls on windy days and women exchange sonic messages with their kin by taking a dip in the river, where Vedic scholars are turned into toads by the curse of an ogress who dwells in a well, and a young Parisian poet finds his flower of evil, where a Turkish warrior finds peace and stays back, and learns Sanskrit to write an ode to the Ganga, where members of the clan return after death, and even a firangi’s soul returns, reincarnated as a Javanese cockatoo. A new law threatens to eject Bappaditya from this fabulous enclave of memories. Can an affidavit woven with the illusory strands of history, myth and memories save him? A magnificent novel spanning seven hundred years, nine generations of a family, and including 49 main characters— among whom there is a cockatoo, a horse and a Harley Davidson motorbike. Learn More
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₹225.00The book contains letters and long rejoinders written by Debiprosad Chattopadhya in response to the articles of Satindranth Chakrabarti and Rabindra Gupta (pseudonym of Bhowani Sen). Click here to read an excerpt from the book. Learn More -
₹225.00Fragments of our social scenario of the last five confusing, upsetting and distressing decades presented mainly in the form of heart-rendering memoirs. Learn More -
₹240.0012 essays on science and its interaction with other aspects of human life. Examples : Science and superstitions, Science and social values, the realm of science, science and imagination, science and religion, science fiction. Learn More -
₹275.00Encrusted with British nostalgia and Bengali romanticism, Darjeeling is a melting pot of tribes and communities. Bhattacharya went to work there in early 1990s, when things were cooling down after a long and bloody agitation. Two decades later, the pot is on the boil again. Learn More -
₹350.00Anthropocene is here. A climate crisis is knocking at our doors. In less than two decades, large parts of the earth will become uninhabitable, countless species will vanish, the global food system will collapse. How is this affecting the thinking mind? Are there keys to survival? Or, ways to become extinct peacefully? A concern for environment leads Parimal Bhattacharya to broader themes of uprooting, memories, civilization and man’s place on earth. He has trawled the writings of nearly 40 writers of different countries and times to piece together a fascinating, and timely, narrative of anxiety, despair, dreams and hope.
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₹300.00A collection of prose on literature. Click here to read an excerpt from the book. Learn More -
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This collection of Gupta’s prose demonstrates his profound knowledge of man and the universe. Learn More -
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The author has an unfathomable love for the aboriginals and the endangered species living in this planet. He holds that the ultimate significance of man’s existence lies in his ability to remain as a part of the everlasting flow of trees, animals and water. This collection of Gupta’s prose demonstrates his profound knowledge of man and the universe.
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₹300.00A collection of prose on literature. Learn More -
₹200.00This book explores the subterranean dimensions of the relationship of Gora and Binoy. Learn More -
₹225.00An insightful and fascinating accout of molecular biology, genetics and genomics. The book trace back the historical and philosophical origin of the age of biology and bioeconomy. The approach is candid, readable, and original. Learn More -
₹200.00Marxbad jijnasa is a sequel to Bastubad jijnasa by the same author. It starts off with a denial of the view that Marxism is a system; on the contrary, it asserts that Marxism is a method, as Engels was never tired of repeating in his letters. The book explores various aspects of the Marxist worldview that are seldom encountered in similar works published in India and abroad. Learn More -
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₹275.00A collection of essays on Rabindranath Tagore by eminent writers. Learn More -
₹240.00Tagore is the direct and authentic negation of C.P.Snow’s ‘Two Cultures’ hypothesis. Learn More -
₹325.00Nestled in the Himalayas, Tibet was a forbidden land in the 19th century. But imperial interest tempted the British to send spies dressed up as Buddhist monks. In 1879 they sent a young Bengali schoolmaster. Learn More -
₹275.00This book posits that the Bengali mind is torn between two basic paradigms: the forward-looking rational-secular Vidyasagar paradigm and the retrograde irrational-religious Vivekananda paradigm. The former has been defeated hands down by the latter. Learn More -
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A collection of novels. Click here to read an excerpt from the book. Learn More -
₹280.00In this book, late professor Hemanta Gangopadhyay has focused on the Vedic analysis of theism and atheism in Mimansa Darshan. But he has also covered wider areas including Advaita Vedanta, contemporary western philosophy and even Marxism. Learn More
