Hyphen Publishers

01/02/2025

HYPHEN's books are available at the following stalls at International Kolkata Book Fair 2025.

Press Club of Kolkata (Stall 477)

Bingsho Shatabdi (Stall 459)

Dhyanbindu ( Stall 634)

Journalists' Club (Stall 453)

Thema (Stall 312)

Firma KLM (522)

29/01/2025

Hyphen Publishers is here with exciting forthcoming volumes!

18/01/2025

Introducing our latest volume to be published soon—
𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑼𝒏𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅: 𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔

edited by Prasanta Ray, Apalak Das and Sarmistha De.

Margins, marginality and marginalisation. These are terms that we have come to use widely nowadays, especially when we seek to address the question of deepening chasms in the society. Yet, we often fail to realise that the term ‘marginality’ is not always used in the economic sense, but can also refer to the relative position of communities in different geographical, political, social or cultural spaces. As a concept, marginality offers an avenue to see hierarchical structures of states, class societies, gender relations and many more aspects of our history in new light. HYPHEN's new endeavor attempts to take a step forward in that direction.

23/12/2024

Hyphen Publishers is here with a new release!

'Imaging Pains in the Social Margins' by Prasanta Ray is coming out soon!

This is a Pain Album containing two hundred and twenty five works of art mainly paintings, about the plight of a select marginalised people in Bengal and western Europe. It looks like a polyptych displaying one image with others sharing the one single theme or event like crucification of Christ, or humiliating medical tests on pr******tes. Like a synergistic symphony, poems and paintings, artists’ self-revelations including their literary appreciation, auction house markings of art works and art historians’ notes – all orchestrate to give us glimpses of pain. The victims of various pains focused here are the pr******te, the migrant, the mother-seekers, and various kinds of the outcast. The mother-seekers are Vincent van Gogh, legendary Karna, poet Buddhadeb Basu, and a late nineteenth orphan girl. Also discoursed are the outcasts are of various types: the mad, the nitwit, the eccentric, the idiot, the hypocrite, the common cheat, the envious, the child snatcher, the kleptomaniac, the arch-rascal, the abductor of women, the slanderer, the eavesdropper, the witch and the political losers. The entire exposition has a reference frame of time, temporality and spaces. The best singular representation of such dialogues is in the paintings of the Brazilian painter Adriana Varejão. This research is inspired by Pablo Picaso’s (1881-1973) belief that art is the son of sadness and suffering; and by a couplet by the Bengali poet, Krishna Chandra Mazumdar (1837-1907):

"They do not see
Can them with lives e’er serene,
‘en in passing, fathom pain?..
Ere in this world, my friend
You stand where I stand,
You shall pity, hear not heed, gaze not see
This anguished heartland."

The book is a companion volume to his 'Everyday Lifeworlds of Paintings:
Possibilities of Materialist Histories' (2024)

Prasanta Ray (b.1943) is Professor Emeritus in Sociology, Presidency University, Kolkata.

22/12/2024

We are happy to share the news that a review of Prasanta Ray's book, 'Everyday Lifeworlds of Paintings' by the esteemed historian Anuradha Roy has been published in the celebrated Art & Deal Magazine!

Check out the review through the following link:

https://artanddeal.in/everyday-lifeworlds-of-paintings-possibilities-of-materialist-histories-prasanta-ray-hyphen-kolkata-2024-by-anuradha-roy/

28/11/2024

20/06/2024

This Saturday, June 22 at The Bhawanipur Education Society College. No registration fee.

26/04/2024

Since there have been quite a few requests for the extension of deadline, send your abstract STRICTLY by April 30 (2024), 11:59 pm. The editorial board has already started shortlisting so we request you not to cross the final deadline.

Call for abstracts of papers for an edited book (with ISBN).

Save the abstract as MS Word File, with the name in the following format:
"Submitter's name - abstract"

Submit at: [email protected]
by 30 April 2024.

Website: https://www.hyphenpublishers.in/

14/04/2024

Call for abstracts of papers for an edited book (with ISBN).

Submit at: [email protected]
by 25 April 2024.

Website: https://www.hyphenpublishers.in/

29/03/2024

The Telegraph (29.3.24) reviews our latest book "Everyday Lifeworlds of Paintings" by Prasanta Ray.

09/03/2024

Today at Presidency University at the launch of Prasanta Ray's new book "Everyday Lifeworlds of Paintings: Possibilities of Materialist Histories". The book was inaugurated by Professor Amiya Kumar Bagchi, followed by discussions by Professor Anuradha Roy and Professor Rajarshi Dasgupta.

09/03/2024

আজকের "এই সময়"-এ।

08/03/2024

Join us for an enriching experience tomorrow!

26/01/2024

ONLY A FEW DAYS LEFT FOR KOLKATA BOOK FAIR! HAVE A GLANCE AT HYPHEN'S NEW BOOK BY PRASANTA RAY.

Everyday Lifeworlds of Paintings - Possibilities of Materialist Histories

Available at
• THEMA, stall 342
• Bingsha Shatabdi, stall 467
• Journalists Club, 386

The book, very rich in content and priceless images, explores a new dimension of art and artists. The groundbreaking innovative theme and prolific intellectual creativity of the author makes the book unique.

21/01/2024

Against the Current:
Essays from a Young Marxist
by
Shubham Sharma

available at
• Press Club of Kolkata, Stall Number 338
• Journalists Club, Stall Number 386
• বিংশ শতাব্দী, স্টল নম্বর ৪৬৭
• ধ্যানবিন্দু, স্টল নম্বর ৫৯৪
• গণশক্তি, স্টল নম্বর ৩৩২

The book is a collection of essays which seek to offer a strong rebuttal of the Hindutva-centered narrative of history and the communal takeover of Indian politics. The book offers a distinctive and fresh analysis from a Marxist-Left point of view. As you will flip through the pages of the book, the need for socialism to get us through the current impasse would be strongly felt.

Shubham Sharma is a doctoral candidate at the University of Connecticut, USA. He was previously at the University of Cambridge, UK. His interventions regularly appear in platforms like NewsClick.in, The Statesman, The Leaflet, Mainstream Weekly and Ganashakti.

Hyphen is much obliged to Professor Amiya Kumar Bagchi for his constant support!

19/01/2024

HYPHEN IS ONCE AGAIN IN KOLKATA BOOK FAIR!

Available at Stalls of :

• Press Club of Kolkata, Stall Number 338
• Journalists Club, Stall Number 386
• বিংশ শতাব্দী, স্টল নম্বর ৪৬৭
• ধ্যানবিন্দু, স্টল নম্বর ৫৯৪
• গণশক্তি, স্টল নম্বর ৩৩২

WITH 5 NEW LAUNCHES!

Exploring a new dimension of art and artists, we have:

1. Everyday Lifeworlds of Paintings - Possibilities of Materialist Histories, by Prasanta Ray

2. Against the Current - Essays from a Young Marxist, by Subham Sharma

3. Operations Research and Decision Sciences by Sandip Nandi and Sohom Majumdar

(মহিলাদের না বলতে পারা কথাগুলো দুমলাটে বন্দী করার কথা ভেবে, প্রয়াস করা হয়েছে মানবীকথার।)

4. আনন্দময়ী মুখোপাধ্যায় লিখেছেন 'অল্প অল্প গল্প'।

5. সন্ধ্যা ব্যানার্জি লিখেছেন 'আমার জীবনকথা'।

Also check out our existing collection:

• Women in the War for Freedom Unveiled - Bengal 1919-1947, by Madhurima Sen

• Situations and Contexts - Narratives on Nineteenth Century Bengal, ed. by Prasanta Ray

• Life is a Satire, by Subrata Ghoshhal

• Prey to Prostitution - Hindu Widows and Kulin Girls, by Bidisha Chakrabarty

18/01/2024

গল্প আমাদের ঘরে ঘরে। কান্নাহাসির গল্প, কষ্ট সুখের গল্প, না পাওয়া-পাওয়ার গল্প, ক্ষোভ- ভালবাসার গল্প, জেদ-লড়াইয়ের গল্প, স্বপ্ন দেখার গল্প, বেঁচে থাকার গল্প । ঘর গেরস্থালিতে মহিলাদের গল্পগুলো নিয়ে বেশির ভাগ ক্ষেত্রেই কেউ কখনও মাথা ঘামায় না। নেপথ্যে থেকে কখন যেন তারা উবে যায়। হারিয়ে যায় তাদের গল্প। তাদের না বলতে পারা কথাগুলো দুমলাটে বন্দী করার কথা ভেবেছে হাইফেন। এই প্রয়াসের একটা পোষাকি নামও ভাবা হয়েছে - মানবীকথা।
সন্ধ্যা ব্যানার্জি লিখেছেন 'আমার জীবনকথা'। হাইফেনের অভিনন্দন লেখিকাকে।
সন্ধ্যা ব্যানার্জির মত আরও অনেক মহিলা এগিয়ে আসুন, হারিয়ে যাওয়ার আগে নিজেদের কথা লিখুন, তাদের কথা দুমলাটে বন্দী করার দায়িত্ব হাইফেনের।