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20/09/2025

Hyphen is delighted to announce the launch of 𝐼𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑃𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎 - 𝐴 𝑀𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑝ℎ at the Bhawanipur Education Society College today. Authored by Professor Prasanta Ray, 𝐼𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑃𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎 is an extraordinary monograph that stands at the confluence of history and literature, traversing the painted visages of emperors and the unpainted griefs of their subjects. The event was graced by the presence of Prof. Ratnabali Chattopadhyay and Prof. Anuradha Roy, alongside the author himself. In their reflections, the speakers not only engaged with the richness of the monograph but also drew attention to Prof. Ray’s two earlier iconographic works published by Hyphen previously:
𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝐿𝑖𝑓𝑒𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑃𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠
𝐼𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑃𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑀𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑠

11/08/2025

Hyphen is delighted to announce the forthcoming release of Imperial Persona, presented by the Bhawanipur Education Society College. Originating as a series of lectures by Prof. Prasanta Ray under the joint initiative of the Departments of Sociology and Bengali in June 2025, this work has evolved into a remarkable text that stands at the confluence of history, sociology, art history, and, above all, literary imagination.
In essence, Imperial Persona is an extraordinary monograph by Professor Ray—rooted in history, yet elevated by the grace of literature. It journeys across the painted faces of emperors and the unpainted griefs of their subjects. At its heart lies the concept of the imperial face: not merely a biological visage, but a carefully curated surface—an iconographic project that embodies power, memory, and myth.

06/08/2025

Huge loss. Rest in peace, Professor Rajat Kanta Ray.

11/06/2025

হাইফেনের মানবী কথা সিরিজের শুরু ২০২৪ এর কলকাতা বইমেলায়। আশি ছুঁই ছুঁই সন্ধ্যা ব্যানার্জ্জী লিখলেন 'আমার জীবন কথা' আর সত্তর ছুঁই ছুঁই আনন্দময়ী মুখোপাধ্যায় লিখলেন 'অল্প অল্প গল্প'।
মানবী কথা। মহিলাদের নিজেদের কথা। কথা সবার থাকে। কেউ বলতে চায় কেউ চায় না। পুরুষতন্ত্র অবশ্য দীর্ঘকাল ধরে বলে এসেছে মহিলারা বলবে না, শুধু শুনবে। সেই অনুশাসন ভেঙেছিল কেউ কেউ। হেঁশেলের হাঁড়ি ঠেলতে ঠেলতে, আতুর ঘরের তীব্র যন্ত্রণায় বিনিদ্র রাতের চোখের জলে, জীবনভর তাচ্ছিল্যে বিদ্ধ হতে হতে কেউ কেউ হাতে তুলে নিয়েছিল কলম। লিখেছিল মনের কথা। তেমনই দুটি অমূল্য নথি হাইফেনের মুখ্য সম্পাদকের কাছে সযত্নে রাখা ছিল। সেই ১৯১৮ সালে অকাল মৃত মেয়ের শোকে বিলাপ গাঁথা লিখেছিলেন এক মা। ভাবা যায়? এই পোষ্টের মাধ্যমে হাইফেন সেইসব পরিবারের কাছে অনুরোধ জানাচ্ছে, যাদের পারিবারিক বা ব্যক্তিগত সংগ্রহে এমন অমূল্য নথিপত্র রয়েছে দয়া করে আমাদের সুযোগ দিন সেইসব নথি দু মলাটে সুরক্ষিত করে সবার কাছে পৌঁছে দেওয়ার।

08/06/2025

Hyphen's publication — Everyday Lifeworlds of Paintings: Possibilities of Materialist Histories by Prasanta Ray — is now part of the Getty Library Catalog! Check it out here:
https://primo.getty.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=GETTY_ALMA21273482590001551&context=L&vid=GRI&lang=en_US

11/05/2025

HYPHEN's Third Book Launch at Presidency University on May 10, 2025:

This was also HYPHEN’s first event without its mentor, Professor Amiya Kumar Bagchi, whose absence was deeply felt.

We were honoured to have Professor Rajat Kanta Ray with us, whose reflections anchored the event. The discussions were further enriched by thought-provoking talks from Professor Priya Sangameswaran and Professor Arabinda Samanta. But Sekhar Bandyopadhyay could not be present with us. His absence was especially felt, as he wrote the foreword to one of the volumes released.

The event was graced by many distinguished scholars as well as young students and researchers. Copies of the edited book were distributed to all contributors as a small token of appreciation.

The books released:
1. Imaging Pains in the Social Margins by Prasanta Ray
2. Heard and Unheard: Miscellany of Marginalities, edited by Prasanta Ray and Apalak Das

06/05/2025

Heard and Unheard: Miscellany of Marginalities
Edited by Prasanta Ray and Apalak Das
Foreworded by Sekhar Bandyopadhyay

The most important aspect of the present volume is its potential to create space for early-career researchers who seek to amplify the suppressed voices of the silent masses. The essays in this collection delve into various dimensions of marginalisation, primarily in Bengal from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. They examine the roles and positions of women, shifting hierarchies under Mughal and British rule, and the exclusion experienced by communities in the eastern Himalayas and northeast India based on their geography, religion, ethnicity, and class. The volume also explores how emerging legal frameworks produced new marginalities and how literature—from oral traditions to canonical texts—depicted, challenged, or reinforced these processes of marginalisation.

04/05/2025

Imaging Pains in the Social Margins by Prasanta Ray

This book contains 228 artworks, mainly paintings, that focus on the struggles of marginalized people from Bengal and Western Europe. The book is like a series of connected images. The people whose suffering is shown include prostitutes, migrants, people searching for their mothers. Also discussed are the various kinds of outcasts: the mad, the nitwit, the eccentric, the idiot, the hypocrite, the common cheat, the envious, the child-snatcher, the arc-rascal, the abductor of women, the slanderer, eavesdropper, the witch and the political loser.

Hyphen is once again privileged to announce the companion volume of the author’s Everyday Lifeworlds of Paintings: Possibilities of Materialist Histories. (Hyphen, 2024)

01/05/2025

রবীন্দ্রনাথ প্রশ্ন করেছেন: 'বিজ্ঞানবিদ কি কেবল দূরবীক্ষণ ও অণুবীক্ষণের সাহায্যেই বিজ্ঞানের সত্য আবিষ্কার করেন, তাঁহার কাছে যে অনুরাগবীক্ষন আছে তাহা কি কেউ হিসাবের মধ্যে আনিবেন না?'
লেখক অভিজিৎ মিত্র লিখছেন, আধুনিক চিন্তনে আদি মধ্য অন্ত সবটা জুড়েই বিজ্ঞান। মানুষ নেই। তার বৃত্তি প্রবৃত্তি, চাওয়া পাওয়া আবেগ অনুরাগেরও স্থান নেই। দূরবীক্ষণ অণুবীক্ষণ অন্তরতর অন্তরতম প্রকৃতির সন্ধান দিতে পারেনা,পারে অনুরাগবীক্ষণ। মানুষকে মানুষ বলে জানা মানুষ বলে বোঝার ক্ষমতা দেয়। মানুষকে দোষ মার্জনা করার ক্ষমতা দেয়। মনে করিয়ে দেয় বসুধৈব কুটুম্বকম মন্ত্র। আজকের এই দেশ-দুনিয়াজোড়া বিভেদ, হিংসা,অসহিষ্ণুতা, ধ্বংসের আবহে বড়ই প্রয়োজন ছিল বইটির। বিষয় নির্বাচন বলিষ্ঠ এবং প্রাসঙ্গিক। সুপাঠ্য প্রবন্ধ গুলো লেখকের নিজস্ব ভাবনায় ঋদ্ধ।
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26/04/2025

You are warmly invited to attend the launch of our two new books:

1. Imaging Pains in the Social Margins by Prasanta Ray

2. Heard & Unheard: Miscellany of Marginalities edited by Prasanta Ray and Apalak Das.

Book Launch and Discussion by:
Professor Rajat Kanta Ray, Professor Arabinda Samanta and Professor Priya Sangameswaran.

Date: May 10, 2025 (Saturday)
Time: 1:00–3:00 pm
Venue: A.K. Basak Auditorium, Ground Floor, Main Building, Presidency University, Kolkata.

Looking forward to meeting you soon!

Warm regards,
Team Hyphen

23/03/2025

Hyphen is honoured to be supported by the eminent historian Sekhar Bandyopadhyay in its small endeavour to address those who, because of their relative positions in society, have always been overshadowed by more visible aspects of our past. We have been blessed to have someone like Professor Bandyopadhyay, who took out time from his busy schedule to write the foreword and steer us in this direction.

Immensely grateful to our editors, Prasanta Ray and Apalak Das!

Many thanks to our contributors, a group of young enthusiastic scholars:
Agniva Sengupta
Archishman Biswas
Archisman Kundu
Arunita Sanyal
Antareepa Mandal
Debdut Mondal
Debraj Ghatak
Esh*ta Dastidar
Iti Roychowdhury
Maninee Maity
Poushali Bhar
Rudranil Chattopadhyay
Saddam Hossain
Sandipana Dhar
Saukarya Samad
Sayan Lodh
Sharanya Baidya
Sharanya Banerjee
Sharmila Chanda
Sneha Haque
Souraditya Banerjee
Soham Dalui
Soham Das
Subhrodal Ghosh
Supriya
Sweta Dutta
Udita Mitra

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