Subir Chowdhury

Subir Chowdhury When a Science Graduate with thirty-five-plus years of Bank service to his credit takes a plunge into the literary world at the age of over seventy after equipping himself with a couple of years of meticulous research and unbridled passion, its end-result is bound to be as amazing as this book. Subir has shaped the story mostly by compiling texts written by several experts and research scholars on some particular facet of our history at a given time. It is necessarily an assortment of information put together by Subir, blending several themes with his own words, to recreate a holistic story of Bengal starting from the ancient period to the contemporary days, peppered with some intriguing political as well as socio-religious issues. The story as narrated by Subir reflects a scientific approach with clear understanding, the sensitivity towards humanity in the entire storytelling, and a pragmatic attitude in assessing the cost-benefit analysis at the end of the day. He is confident that the informed readers will be objective in evaluating the story in the backdrop of what is documented in the book, and draw a comparison between the historical realities and what we are being told or taught so far.