The series will be bilingual, with the original Bengali texts also published. Leading Bengali poet and Jnanpith awardee Shankha Ghosh, who passed away in 2021, was a founding editor of the series. With Spivak, University Professor, Columbia University, who is originally from Kolkata, Abhijit Gupta, who teaches English at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and is director, Jadavpur University Press, and Thibaut d’Hubert, associate professor, University of Chicago, will serve as series editors of the series.

He added that he was drawn to the project because of the interest his father, Luxmi Estate chairman Dipankar Chatterjee, has in Bengali literature, because it is a Columbia University project and because a scholar of the stature of Spivak is leading it. “They are Rabindranath Tagore’s Kalantar, Michael Madhusudan Dutt’s Meghnadbadh Kavya and Chilekothar Sepai by Akhtarujjaman Elias,” said Chatterjee. Three books will be published at first, with the help of Chatterjee’s contribution. The Kolkata resident graduated with an MBA from Columbia Business School in 2004.

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