Kolkata: to Be Young Was Paradise

Author’s reminiscences of his life and times in Kolkata in the late 1940’s and early 1950’s, in effect a political and sociocultural history of postworld war II and postpartition India, make a scholarly tome laced with deep studies and gripping accounts of a wide range of subjectsorigin of Kolkata, controvery over traditional differences between people of east and west Bengal, Portrayals of cultural, political , literary, academic, coffee house culture economic and personages national and international, a unique tome.