Basic education, like a prism, refracts a spectrum of economic, political and cultural issues that usually remain knotted. The writer discovered this when he toured West Bengal – from the heart of Sundarbans to Shantiniketan, from the floodplains of dying rivers to the ochre plains of Jangalmahal. What emerges is a tapestry of sights, sounds and smells that often speak more than cold statistics. Learn More

This book is a record of the investigation conducted by Gautam Chattopadhyay into the impact of the November Revolution in Russia (1917) on Bengal. Originally published in 1967, the work has been reprinted to commemorate the centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution, with an Introduction by Ramkrishna Bhattacharya and notes by Siddhartha Dutta. Learn More