In its unique style, this book presents a chronicle of an ordinary middle class Bengali woman who penned down stories of her life but preferred to be anonymous to the reader. The pages of this cathartic diary carry the pathos of a dying woman’s sufferings out of rootlessness that she encountered in different junctures of her life. This is a story narrating the ups and downs of a little girl’s journey towards womanhood that might apparently sound insipid, but when read closely, is an account of a pervasive social canvas over a certain time period in history. The presentation of this anonymous autobiographical memoir before the readers by an individual other than the author herself adds a distinctive flavour to this book. More attractive it gets when some illustrations made by the author are included in it as pictorial expressions of her emotions, perceptions and thoughts. Learn More

The 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

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