Search results for 'a face of bengal : looking through the prism of basic education'
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₹220.00In the year 1926, Saroj-Nalini (in Bengali) got published, which bears the testimony to the life of the wife of eminent ICS GurusadayDutta. Learn More -
₹200.00This 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 -
₹350.00An anthology of essays of Bengal’s major writers and thinkers on the culture of reading, publishing and collecting books. Learn More -
₹200.00Here we find an account of the changes brought by Rammohan Roy, Vidyasagar, Bankimchandra, Rabindranath and Aurobinda in the social and political climate of Bengal. Learn More -
₹475.00One of the most remarkable autobiographies ever produced in Bengali literature. Learn More -
₹65.00This book redefines the idea of development with a steady focus on the need of ensuring the access of the common people to education, health care and other services. Learn More -
₹375.00‘What have you got up your sleeve? Some new poems?’ Apu’s old college friend Pulu asks him in Satyajit Ray’s Apur Sansar. ‘A wonderful novel,’ Apu muses. ‘It’s about a boy, a village boy... poor, but sensitive. His father is a priest. The father dies, the boy goes to the city... Not to become a priest. He wants to study. His study, his education, his hardships... broaden his mind, sharpen his intellect...’ ‘Well?’ Pulu chips in. ‘But where is the novel? It’s an autobiography!’ Yes, true. In fact, it is the autobiography of the Bengalis, since 19th century. But not the unabridged version; obscure, even contrary parts have been left out of it. In search of the missing narratives, the author has set out on a fascinating trip, listening to the tales of grit blood love and dreams of the people he has encountered, and has pieced together the life story of a young deltaic land. Like Parimal Bhattacharya’s earlier books, Apur Desh, too, has been fashioned out of the forms of fiction, memoir, reportage, travelogue and more: it is a journey. Learn More -
₹325.00Dui Bangali Ek Bangali deals with the complex history of Bengali Muslims as a community, their identity formation, the challenges they face and the invincibility of their spirit. The legendary fight of the people of Bangladesh for the recognition of Bengali language, the threat of communalism, their rich heritage of literature, art, music and theatre – all that characterize the cultural history of Bangladesh – have been sincerely examined. Learn More -
₹125.00This 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 -
₹425.00His 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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