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₹275.00Mid-nineteenth century had brought in the hope that science was set to usher in the golden era of a humane world free from pain and exploitation. But soon it transpired that while scientific truths might be objective, the practice of science was certainly not above imperialist class interests. How then to reconcile science with human values? How then to assert that to lose faith in science is sin? Wise and compassionate scientists never stopped worrying about this crucial question. Great minds such as Joseph Needham, Linus Pauling and Dorothy Hodgkin delved deep into history, philosophy, religion and politics in order to redeem humanity's confidence in science. Each such scientist had to face imperialist persecution and harrassment despite attaining dizzy heights in their respective fields. Each had also to fight against highly talented but tragically paranoid and pro-imperialist scientists such as Edward Teller, for whom finishing off the USSR in a nuclear war was the ultimate idea of peace on earth. This book is a fascinating and inspiring account of that tumultuous struggle involving the two sides of science - the benign and the grotesque, much of it in the scientists' own words translated into Bengali with ample notes and prefaced with knowledgeable introductions. The book takes a fresh look not only at the history of science but at that of the anti-imperialist and anti-fascist struggles of the twentieth century.
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₹125.00This book makes an attempt to erase the popular misconceptions about the identity-formation of the Bengali speaking people, their language and culture. Learn More -
₹450.00The contributors include Anisujjaman, Goutam Bhadra, Alok Roy, Shamik Bandopadhyay and Ashis Khastogir. 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 -
₹240.00Tagore is the direct and authentic negation of C.P.Snow’s ‘Two Cultures’ hypothesis. Learn More -
₹200.00In 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 -
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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 -
₹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
