News Desk, News Nation 360 : Recently, Parul Prakashani, one of the biggest publishing houses in Eastern India, held a book launch and felicitation ceremony at B C Roy Auditorium, which is close to College Street, to commemorate the 75th birthday of its founder, Gourdas Saha. The book launch program featured the publication of Aparajito, a compilation of many pieces that chronicled Parul Prakashani's quick ascent under Saha's direction. Released by Swami Suparnananda Maharaj of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Golpark. Siddartha Sarnkar Ray, better known by his stage name Sidhu, was a special guest on this show. Edited by Chanchal Kumar Ghosh, a book chronicles the history of Parul Prakashani, founded in Agartala in 1981, marking its excellence in publishing text and reference books and its significant role in developing Bengali literature, such as Gourdas Saha's highly acclaimed work in reviving the historic Sandesh and Balak magazines and publishing a celebrated edition of the English Gitanjali, with their Muhurtakatha series, containing classic short stories by iconic authors like Sunil Gangopadhyay, Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, Buddhadeb Guha, Mahasweta Devi, Atin Bandyopadhyay, and Bani Basu, a game changer, where Gourdas Saha personally takes care of careful editing, perfect printing, and aesthetically enriched covers for each publication, having worked hand in hand with iconic authors and discovered new literary voices in his four-decade career, besides being a prime force behind modernizing Bengali comics and graphic novels; the same event also witnessed the Brain of Bengal Award, which was awarded to eleven eminent personalities for their outstanding contributions to various sectors, including Puranjan Prasad Chakraborty (Literature & Social Science), Prof. Asit Kumar Mondal (History & Social Studies), Dr. Subhas Chandra Ray (Education & Applied Psychology), Prof. Imankalyan Lahiri (Political & Social Science), Dr. Sandip Roy (Biological Science & Environmental Studies), Tapas Kumar Purkait (Mathematics & Statistics), Prof. Chittaranjan Sinha (Chemistry & Environmental Studies), Prof. Madan Mohan Bhattacharya (Biological Science & Environmental Studies), Prof. Baridbaran Ghosh (Literature & Social Science), Prof. Santosh Kumar Ghorai (Physics & Environmental Studies), and Prof. Sampat Mukherjee (Economics & Social Science).
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