Portal: The Curious Account of Achintya Bose

30 November, 2020

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Portal

The Curious Account of Achintya Bose

Compiled by Shantanu Bhattacharya

This book presents a fictional archive in the form of a diary, kept between 1994 and 1996, by a one-time owner of a small photography studio in Kolkata before his unexplained disappearance. It introduces fictional text based on real visual material, via photographic prints, letters, newspaper cuttings, ads and polaroids.

Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation and Tulika Books, Rs 1250, 112 pages

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