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Mid-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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₹220.00An autobiography by Saradasundari Debi & Saratkumari Deb Learn More
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₹275.00A collection of prose on literature and interview. Learn More
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₹275.00A collection of prose in bengali by Ajoy Gupta Learn More
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₹325.00A collection of Prose in bengali by Ajoy Gupta Learn More
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A montage of memories, legends and myths, the book discusses in detail, life and death, unnecessary egotism and man’s leaps before thought. To put it simply, it talks about the ebb and flow of human civilization as a whole. Ajoy Gupta’s soul-piercing style of writing, with hues of subtle humour echoes Gabriel Garcia Marquez as it reminds us, ‘Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it’. This book beckons not fear of living, but a grand celebration of life.
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₹325.00The book contains 16 articles of different kinds. The only unifying theme of the collection is that each article discusses a single person. The style of discussion is varied. One of the articles is a reminiscence of a famous poet. Another is a critique of another famous poet, mixed with personal reminiscences. Then there are two fictional "interviews". Yet another article is a historical account of an interesting event. There are obituaries of some famous people written for newspapers and magazines. The rest are essays which are appraisals, in one way or other, of some people and their contributions to some field of activity. Learn More
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₹425.00
His 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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₹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
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₹450.00A collection of Prose in bengali by Swapan Chakravorty Learn More
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₹225.00The book contains letters and long rejoinders written by Debiprosad Chattopadhya in response to the articles of Satindranth Chakrabarti and Rabindra Gupta (pseudonym of Bhowani Sen). Click here to read an excerpt from the book. Learn More
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₹225.00Fragments of our social scenario of the last five confusing, upsetting and distressing decades presented mainly in the form of heart-rendering memoirs. Learn More
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₹140.0012 essays on science and its interaction with other aspects of human life. Examples : Science and superstitions, Science and social values, the realm of science, science and imagination, science and religion, science fiction. Learn More
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₹270.00Encrusted with British nostalgia and Bengali romanticism, Darjeeling is a melting pot of tribes and communities. Bhattacharya went to work there in early 1990s, when things were cooling down after a long and bloody agitation. Two decades later, the pot is on the boil again. Learn More
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Anthropocene 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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₹425.00This collection of Gupta’s prose demonstrates his profound knowledge of man and the universe. Learn More
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₹300.00A collection of prose on literature. Click here to read an excerpt from the book. Learn More
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₹250.00A collection of prose on literature. Learn More
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The author has an unfathomable love for the aboriginals and the endangered species living in this planet. He holds that the ultimate significance of man’s existence lies in his ability to remain as a part of the everlasting flow of trees, animals and water. This collection of Gupta’s prose demonstrates his profound knowledge of man and the universe.
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₹200.00This book explores the subterranean dimensions of the relationship of Gora and Binoy. Learn More
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₹225.00An insightful and fascinating accout of molecular biology, genetics and genomics. The book trace back the historical and philosophical origin of the age of biology and bioeconomy. The approach is candid, readable, and original. Learn More
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₹200.00Marxbad jijnasa is a sequel to Bastubad jijnasa by the same author. It starts off with a denial of the view that Marxism is a system; on the contrary, it asserts that Marxism is a method, as Engels was never tired of repeating in his letters. The book explores various aspects of the Marxist worldview that are seldom encountered in similar works published in India and abroad. Learn More
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₹275.00A collection of essays on Rabindranath Tagore by eminent writers. Learn More
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₹240.00Tagore is the direct and authentic negation of C.P.Snow’s ‘Two Cultures’ hypothesis. Learn More
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₹325.00Nestled in the Himalayas, Tibet was a forbidden land in the 19th century. But imperial interest tempted the British to send spies dressed up as Buddhist monks. In 1879 they sent a young Bengali schoolmaster. Learn More
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₹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
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₹400.00A collection of novels. Click here to read an excerpt from the book. Learn More
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In 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