“sumanta sen”

He drew the curved thatched huts of rural Bengal and the grey, overladen sky of hte monsoons. Just as his landscapes echoed the moods of this land, his potraits captured the essence of a character. Painter, set designer, illustrator and fabulist, Abanindranath Tagore led the renaissance in Indian ar... More

Taking its title from Karl Marxs description of religion as the general theory of this world ……. [and] its logic in a popular form, this volume of essays explores the hidden logic behind the popular construction of certain myths, beliefs about godlings and spirits, and cross-religious cults, vie... More

Explores the world of the prostitutes in 19th century Bengal and traces how they came to dominate the centre-stage in Calcutta. It is a major contribution to the ongoing research on 19th century Bengal in general and feminist studies in particular. Hardbound... More

His father's untimely death from an assassin's bullet triggers Avijit's unforgettablequest for livelihood. It catapults him from a simple life in a small town to the volatile streets of calcutta, where love and longing, passion and greed, caste a never yeilding shadow on him. He joins the army in hi... More

This collection of Bangla short stories in English translation is an endeavour to present in a single volume a representative picture of Bengal of the recent past and of today, and to introduce the readers to some significant features of the life of its people, its society and culture. While sharing... More

Sumanta Banerjee analyses the development of the various forms offolk culture of the urban poor in the new metropolis of Calcutta, as a fallout of the process of urbanization in the wake of the establishment of the British colonial system in Bengal. Profu... More

Like other pre-colonial socio-economic formations, the profession of prostitution underwent a dramatic change in Bengal soon after the British take-over. Under the Raj explores the world of the prostitute in nineteenth century Bengal. It traces how, from the peripheries of pre-colonial Bengali rural... More

The author, after a long search, arrives at what in his judgement, is the most effective strategy to overcome the food-population hunger race and to win the war on poverty. The strategy is based on a simple proposition, namely, the natural resources of all developing countries must be systematically... More

First published in 1854, Hard Times is a novel about England’s Industrial Revolution and the ideology that sustained it. In his introduction, Sambudha Sen reads the novel as a splintered work, that draws upon the expressive resources of such popular forms as radical journalism to intensify its cri... More