This is a book of ‘conversations’ with educated, self-aware Bengalis, all of them born across a span of 40 years of the 20th century, from Rabindra Kumar Dasgupta, the litterateur, born in 1915, to Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, the novelist, born in 1956. It is a distinguished gallery of historians: Tapan Raychaudhuri, Dipesh Chakrabarty; filmmakers: Mrinal Sen, Buddhadeb Dasgupta; novelists: Kunal Basu, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni; playwrights: Mahasweta Devi, Badal Sircar; poets: Sankha Ghosh, Purushottam Lal and translators: France Bhattacharya, Martin Kampchen.
Social, Cultural Roots of the Bengali Intellectual
Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr
BROKEN MIRROR: CONVERSATIONS WITH ARTISTS AND THINKERS by By Chinmoy Guha. Translated into English from the original Bengali, and annotated by Zenith Roy Primus Books, 2025, 321 pp., INR ₹ 1250.00
June 2025, volume 49, No 6