Sahityer Yearbook ( ThikanaPanji 2026) (Bengali Version)

PurbaPrakashaniBook Details

• Author: Biswanath Bhattacharya

• Publisher: Purba Prakashani

• Language: English

• Pages: 400

• Edition: Latest

• ISBN: 9788176941532

About the Book

I had just entered my professional life then. On holidays, wandering through College Street and book markets was my passion. While roaming around one day, I discovered the Literary Yearbook. I kept turning its pages, staring intently—like a postman lost in the forest of poet Mashprarthi Hemanta. I knew very well that the name of an unknown person like me was not supposed to be there, and yet I kept looking.

A group of friends gathered around. Snatching the yearbook from my hands, they flipped through it and said,
“No, your name isn’t here.”

The Literary Yearbook is not merely a collection of addresses and phone numbers. Rather, it is a grand archive. Names are arranged in strict alphabetical order—no one is greater, no one is smaller. The famous and the newcomers stand side by side, equally present within the same chapters.

Literature is the music of an individual soul and demands selfless practice—there is no doubt about that. For years, the Literary Yearbook has brought poets, artists, editors, journalists, and publishers together under a single cover. Every year, at the beginning of the English New Year, a new edition is published, gaining its complete form through the ever-evolving cover designs by artist Hiron Mitra.

With every new edition, many new writers, poets, storytellers, artists, journalists, and editors are added. I, too, was included—as a fiction writer. After that, it was no longer just a flood of phone calls, but a tsunami: requests for writing, invitations to meet, appeals for book signings, and invitations to attend events as guest, chief guest, or special guest.

Those who are included in the Literary Yearbook bear a great responsibility. The flame of creativity has always been lit by literary practitioners. Literature is not merely a personal elegy—though it may be a solo performance, its true harmony lies in a magnificent symphony.

Thus, the Literary Yearbook shines like a golden radiance—its generous light crossing states, spreading across the country, and extending into the world. Perhaps across this very world live people who speak our Bengali language.

Rabindranath Tagore once said that the history of the Bengali language is essentially the history of Bengali literature. In the gatherings of the yearbook, a permanent archive is created—containing the addresses and phone numbers of writers, poets, artists, editors, and publishers.

And accompanying this archive are its final companions—letters, postcards, and colorful envelopes, with the quiet anticipation once reserved even for a simple market letter.