Many 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

Narrates a breathtaking journey into the inner basin of the eastern Nepal Himalayas and the ancient Tibetan villages there. This journey was inspired by historic Tibet-expedition of Pandit Sarat Chandra Das in the nineteenth century. It retraces and reimagines the ancient and modern routes, and maps the socio-cultural spectrum of Indo-Tibetan confluences. The description of traditional pathways to the north-western base camp of Kanchenjunga and the sublime experience at Pangpema give this journey a unique dimension. The dangerous trails, the sublimity of the mountains, the gomphas, the soulful music of life in the remote Himalayas make this a book to be cherished. Learn More

His early life in the intimate natural setting of Barisal and Silchar, the great Bengal famine of 1943, the violent legacy of Partition, and above all his experience of service in the armed forces went to the making of Manindra Gupta(1926-2018), one of the major architects of Bangla poetry in the post-Jibanananda era. He assimilated all that was best in his predecessors and carved out a style all his own. Dispensing with the conventional lyric mode marked by effusion, Gupta brought his intensive reading of world literature, critical thinking, and unsentimental worldview to bear on his unique style of presentation that is manifest in the deft employment of the occult and the absurd. This book offers an interpretation of Gupta's life, his texts and times.

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