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₹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
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₹220.00The term ,“jaibanik”, literally meaning “biological”, was coined and used by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in his book of scientific essays , Bigyan Rahashyo . In Bigyan Rahashyo , Bankim pioneered a tradition of critical and cross-cultural scrutiny of modern science which is unfortunately being ignored or sidetracked both by the Bankim scholars as well as the general readers today . This has created a major lacunae not only in Bankim- studies but also in the studies of Bangal intellectual tradition . On the 175th anniversary of Bankimchandra , this book , which is an unique combination of History of Science and frontiers of Science , pays a small and a bit late tribute to Bankim . Essays included here revisits some of the scientific problems Bankim commented upon in Bigyan Rahashyo in his time , and records current advances in those areas . The Areas include current hot biological topics such as Synthetic Biology and Metabolomics Learn More -
₹100.00The present book has departed from the analysis of author's views but emphasised on re-reading Amiya Bhushan Majumdar's novels leading to the interaction between the author and the reader. Since there is no singularity of meaning due to the unending dynamics of sinified and signifier the present book has opened avenues for further analysis through re-reading the texts. Learn More -
₹300.00A collection of prose on literature. Click here to read an excerpt from the book. Learn More -
₹400.00A collection of novels. Click here to read an excerpt from the book. Learn More -
₹300.00Anthropocene 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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₹325.00Instead of offering a neat, coherent ideological perspective, this book uses various conflicting strands of feminist, postcolonial and postmodern thought to comment on the politics of embodiment and its cultural implications. In an attempt to understand how the body is put into discourse and organized in multiple ways, the short prose fragments in this book deal with issues like voyeuristic gaze, masterbation, fetishism, nudity, objectification, ageing, body-mind dualism, forms of otherness, ingredients of intimacies in interpersonal spheres and altered states of consciousness. The issues range from these to the uses of the body as a contested space in matters relating to the ethos of ascetic purity, trends in esoteric cults, management of death and reproduction, practices of mindfulness as a form of self-care and the links between the performance of power and the constitution of self. Click here to read an excerpt from the book. Learn More -
₹340.00An autobiography by Debdas Acharya. Click here to read an excerpt from the book. Learn More -
₹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 -
₹225.00Narrates 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
