Tapan Chattopadhyay is the author of some pioneering books of research in both English and Bengali. He has also written popular novels and short stories in Bengali. His earliest published work was a book of poems, Galita Periye (Crossing the Alley), Best Books, Kolkata, 1977. He has since mostly written prose and occasionally penned poems, some of which have been compiled in a volume, Akta Samay Ashe (A Time Comes), Patralekha, Kolkata, in 2005..... more