Calcutta Then Kolkata Now

Pramod Kapoor is the founder and publisher of Roli Books. A sepia aficionado, he has over the course of his illustrious career conceived and produced award-winning books that have proven to be game changers in the publishing world. Anshika Varma is an artist, editor and curator for lens-based media. Working in multi-media, her practice questions our sense of identity in an ever-changing world. Her personal photographic works have been exhibited in India, Europe and the USA. She has also worked on book projects documenting social and cultural landscapes of the country. Sunanda K. Datta-Ray's first essay on Calcutta appeared in the Observer magazine, London, in October 1970. He was editor of the Statesman, Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and editor-in-residence at the East-West Centre, Honolulu, before moving to Singapore, where he spent more than a decade in journalistic research and academic positions. Indrajit Hazra is a writer and journalist. He is the author of the novels The Burnt Forehead of Max Saul (2000), The Garden of Earthly Delights (2003), and The Bioscope Man (2008), the last two set in the Kolkata of different eras. His Grand Delusions: A Short Biography of Kolkata was published in 2013. He writes the fortnightly column, 'Red Herring' in the Economic Times, and the weekly column, 'Indi Pop', in the Bengali daily Ei Samay.