Signet Press
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Signet Press in Kolkata (previously Calcutta), West Bengal, India, is a publishing house established by (popularly known as D. K.) in 1943. Located at the famous book arcade of College Street in front of Sanskrit College. The famed film-director Satyajit Ray worked as a visual designer in this publishing house at the onset of his career and many of the books don the covers designed by him. The press has published many renowned books like Jawaharlal Nehru's Discovery of India, Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay's Pather Panchali and Chander Pahar, Jibanananda Das's Rupasi Bangla and Banalata Sen, Saat-ti taarar timir etc.By the end of the 70s though, D. K had fallen sick and soon followed by his death, The Signet Publishing house closed. It was revived back later after its purchase by the Ananda
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Signet Press
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Signet Press' logo
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College Street, , Kolkata, West Bengal
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Signet Press in Kolkata (previously Calcutta), West Bengal, India, is a publishing house established by (popularly known as D. K.) in 1943. Located at the famous book arcade of College Street in front of Sanskrit College. The famed film-director Satyajit Ray worked as a visual designer in this publishing house at the onset of his career and many of the books don the covers designed by him. The press has published many renowned books like Jawaharlal Nehru's Discovery of India, Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay's Pather Panchali and Chander Pahar, Jibanananda Das's Rupasi Bangla and Banalata Sen, Saat-ti taarar timir etc.By the end of the 70s though, D. K had fallen sick and soon followed by his death, The Signet Publishing house closed. It was revived back later after its purchase by the Ananda Publishers, thus giving the old historic publishing house a new pulse. Many of the classic signet publications are now once again available to the common readers, Be it the Samar Sen's Poem, Sukumar Roy's works or Sudhindranath Dutta's Sangbarta and Bishnu Dey's Naam rekhechi Komol Gandhar.
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