About the Author:

SobhanlalDatta Gupta (1948), former SurendraNath Banerjee Professor of Political Science, University of Calcutta, has an abiding interest in the political and intellectual history of Marxism. Some of his recentworks include Comintern and the Destiny of Communism in India: Dialectics of Real and a Possible History (Kolkata: Seribaan, 2006; revised and enlarged edition in 2011)[A Malayalam version published in 2010 and a German version in 2013], The Ryutin Platform(Stalin and the Crisis of Proletarian Dictatorship) (ed.) (Kolkata: Seribaan 2010), Marxism in Dark Times: Select Essays for the New Century (Delhi, London, New York:Anthem Press, 2012) and The Socialist Vision and the Silenced Voices of Democracy. Part I :Rosa Luxemburg (Kolkata:Seribaan, 2015).

Supriya Roy has worked in Rabindra-Bhavana, the Tagore Memorial Museum, Archives and Research Centre of Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan as a librarian and archivist for three decades. The Content Writer of Multimedia Encyclopedia on Tagore, her publications include, Rabindra-Bhavana Uttarayana: an introduction, Tagoreana in the Modern Review, Makers of a Mission; she has been series editor for the Tagore Travelogues for Visva-Bharati and has edited: Letters from a Sojourner in Europe; Journey to Persia and Iraq: 1932; Letters from Java: Rabindranath Tagore’s Tour of Southeast Asia and Talks in Japan, A Home in Urbana, and The Diaries of Rathindranath Tagore. With Sushobhan Adhikary, she has written Rabindranath Tagore: His World of Art.

Smt.Roy has curated exhibitions on Rabindranath in various places. In 2007, she organized a permanent gallery on the life and works of Rabindranath in Mauritius. In 2011, she curated an exhibition on Rabindranath in Kuala Lumpur. Other (ICCR) exhibitions which have travelled all over the world are: Rabindranath Tagore and the Romance of Travel, Rabindranath Tagore: Pilgrimages to the East and Rabindranath Tagore: An Encounter with Japan.