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After retiring from service, Lt. Col. Bhattacharya took the Ll.B. degree from Calcutta University to
prove to himself that his mental faculties were intact and practised in Bankshall Court and
Calcutta High Court till 1982. He also studied the B.Ed. course in St. Xavier’s College when
his son was a Lecturer in English there and also taught spoken English in the Institute of
English.
He also written extensively. His writings include:
The Prophet of Islam, inspired by Sri Aurobindo calling him “Yogi shrestha” (Best of yogis).
Krishna of the Gita: reflections and the necessity for re-grouping the text of the Gita
(www.writersworkshopindia.com).
A response to K.D. Sethna’s “Two Puzzles in the Gita” in the light of his own sadhana.
A seven act Bengali play on the last nawab of Bengal, Siraj-ud-daulah based on extensive
research (Dasgupta & Co. 54/3 College Street, Kolkata-700073).
A treatise on the Portuguese Empire in India (unpublished); Memoirs of his early years
(unpublished); On the parable of the widow’s mite in the Gospel of St. Mark for a book by
Fr. Oswald Summerton S.J.
Born in 1918, Lt. Col. Bhattacharya passed away in 1988
Lucy Purvey lives in Cambourne.
Lucyna Jachacy is an educator who lives in Adelaide with her husband and two boys.
Madhumita Mazumdar is a member of faculty of Dhirubai Ambani Institute of Information Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, Gujarat.
Malabika Roy is a freelance writer who lives in Kolkata.
Dr. Manash Chatterjee is a plant scientist based in Cambridge. He divides his time between UK and India.
Mandakranta Bose, D.Phil. (Oxon.), FRAS, FRSC is a Senior Fellow at the OxfordCentre for Hindu Studies, Professor Emerita and Former Director, Centre for Indiaand South Asia Research, Institute of Asian Research at the University of BritishColumbia. She studied Sanskrit at Sanskrit College, Calcutta, ComparativeLiterature at the University of British Columbia, and holds a D.Phil. in Sanskritfrom Oxford University. Her many fields of interest include dance and drama in theearly Sanskritic tradition, women’s location within the Hindu ethical and culturalworld, the Rāmāyaṇa, medieval Bengali poetry, and Rabindranath Tagore. In allthese areas Professor Bose has published numerous books and articles.
Some of hermost recent publications include:
Women in the Hindu World. San Rafael, CA: Oxford Centre for Hindu Studiesand Mandala, 2022. Forthcoming.
The Goddess, ed. Mandakranta Bose, a volume of the Oxford History ofHinduism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
The Ramayana in Bengali Folk Paintings. New Delhi: Niyogi Books, 2017.
A Woman's Rāmāyaṇa: Candrāvati's Bengali Epic. Eds. Mandakranta Bose &Sarika Priyadarshini Bose. Translated with introduction and annotations.London & New York: Routledge, 2013.
Women in the Hindu Tradition: Rules, Roles and Exceptions. London & New York:Routledge, 2010.
Saṅgītanārāyaṇa: A Critical Edition with translation. Kalamulasastra series, vols.53 & 54, pp. lii, 972. Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, &Motilal Banarsidass, 2009.
Professor Bose lives in Vancouver, Canada.
Maria Jesus Battaler Vidal is an IT professional who lives in Cambourne.
Marion Brown is retired and lives in Cambourne
Mohua Bhattacharya, following ineptly in her father's footsteps, works for the UK Civil Service and lives in Cambridge with her family.
Dr. Monjori Mitra is a leading pediatrician in Kolkata and the head of Medclin
Research, a clinical research organization. She also manages the nursery school in
Bardhaman founded by her mother. A frequent speaker at national and international
conferences, Dr. Mitra divides her time between Kolkata and Mumbai.
Mouli Basu is a scriptwriter and a voice artist. She is the founder of Shaalpiyalthat trains actors and organises plays and play readings. She lives in Kolkata.
Dr. Nandini Bhattacharyya Panda is a historian and author who works on hill communities of Darjeeling, Sikkim, Nepal and Northeastern India. She divides her time between New Delhi and Kolkata.
Dr. Nandita Ray Bhattacharya is a Pathologist. She lives in Kolkata.
Paula Brown lives in Cambourne, Cambridge, UK.
From Kolkata to Leeds, Mumbai to London, Pune to currently in Auckland, Dr Paula Ray has dabbled with writing - both academic and journalistic. She considers herself a zingare (Italian for a ‘gypsy woman’), with a global palate for creativity.
Pauline Clarke lives in Cambourne.
Payal Singh Mohanka is a journalist and writer based in Kolkata.