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After retiring from service, Lt. Col. Bhattacharya took the Ll.B. degree from Calcutta University to
prove to himself that his mental faculties were intact and practised in Bankshall Court and
Calcutta High Court till 1982. He also studied the B.Ed. course in St. Xavier’s College when
his son was a Lecturer in English there and also taught spoken English in the Institute of
English.

He also written extensively. His writings include:

The Prophet of Islam, inspired by Sri Aurobindo calling him “Yogi shrestha” (Best of yogis).
Krishna of the Gita: reflections and the necessity for re-grouping the text of the Gita
(www.writersworkshopindia.com).
A response to K.D. Sethna’s “Two Puzzles in the Gita” in the light of his own sadhana.

A seven act Bengali play on the last nawab of Bengal, Siraj-ud-daulah based on extensive
research (Dasgupta & Co. 54/3 College Street, Kolkata-700073).
A treatise on the Portuguese Empire in India (unpublished); Memoirs of his early years
(unpublished); On the parable of the widow’s mite in the Gospel of St. Mark for a book by
Fr. Oswald Summerton S.J.

Born in 1918, Lt. Col. Bhattacharya passed away in 1988

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Madhumita Mazumdar is a member of faculty of Dhirubai Ambani Institute of Information Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, Gujarat.

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Malabika Roy is a freelance writer who lives in Kolkata.

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Dr. Manash Chatterjee is a plant scientist based in Cambridge. He divides his time between UK and India.

 

 

 

 

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Mandakranta Bose, D.Phil. (Oxon.), FRAS, FRSC is a Senior Fellow at the OxfordCentre for Hindu Studies, Professor Emerita and Former Director, Centre for Indiaand South Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research at the University of BritishColumbia. She studied Sanskrit at Sanskrit College, Calcutta, ComparativeLiterature at the University of British Columbia, and holds a D.Phil. in Sanskritfrom Oxford University. Her many fields of interest include dance and drama in theearly Sanskritic tradition, women’s location within the Hindu ethical and culturalworld, the Rāmāyaṇa, medieval Bengali poetry, and Rabindranath Tagore. In allthese areas Professor Bose has published numerous books and articles.

Some of hermost recent publications include: 

Women in the Hindu World. San Rafael, CA: Oxford Centre for Hindu Studiesand Mandala, 2022. Forthcoming.

 The Goddess, ed. Mandakranta Bose, a volume of the Oxford History ofHinduism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

The Ramayana in Bengali Folk Paintings. New Delhi: Niyogi Books, 2017.

A Woman's Rāmāyaṇa: Candrāvati's  Bengali Epic. Eds. Mandakranta Bose &Sarika Priyadarshini Bose. Translated with introduction and annotations.London & New York: Routledge, 2013.

Women in the Hindu Tradition: Rules, Roles and Exceptions. London & New York:Routledge, 2010.

Saṅgītanārāyaṇa: A Critical Edition with translation. Kalamulasastra series, vols.53 & 54, pp. lii, 972. Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, &Motilal Banarsidass, 2009.

 

Professor Bose lives in Vancouver, Canada.