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Devasis Chattopadhyay

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As seen in: LinkedIn, Facebook, The Times of India, Goodreads, The Indian Express, DNA India, Dawn, The Quint, Scroll.in, The Telegraph (India) and
Covers:  Urban History, colonial heritage, commercial memory, and Society. He also writes about Media and Communications, the gig economy and Pop Culture.
Narrative History Writer and Columnist

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Devasis Chattopadhyay is a Narrative History Writer and a Columnist.
He is Kolkata's leading narrative historian and independent researcher specialising in urban history, colonial heritage and commercial memory.
Devasis Chattopadhyay recently published 'Harry Hobbs of Kolkata and Other Forgotten Lives' - ISBN - 10: 8119626141, ISBN-13: 978-8119626144 - his second book and first narrative history nonfiction ( Niyogi Books, India). He wrote his first book, a Roman à clef novel, ' Without Prejud…

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Heart and soul of the city

Heart and soul of the city

Opinion Article - The Sunday Statesman Evolve - A new #government has come to power in #WestBengal and ha…

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What the BJP and TMC ad campaigns reveal about how they see the West Bengal voter

What the BJP and TMC ad campaigns reveal about how they see the West Bengal voter

Elections are not won solely by the loudest voices or the most visible campaigns, but by those who can accura…

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The war on the walls: History and growth of Bengal's election campaigning

The war on the walls: History and growth of Bengal's election campaigning

With the 2026 West Bengal Assembly election underway, campaigns spill across walls, WhatsApp, and social medi…

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How Kolkata's Habl-ul-Matin helped shape Iran's constitutional revolution

How Kolkata's Habl-ul-Matin helped shape Iran's constitutional revolution

Printed in Chitpur, a Persian newspaper from Kolkata carried ideas of reform and constitutionalism into Iran

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Central question

Central question

Opinion Piece - Edit Page - Chowringhee is a transit corridor, a commercial spine, and a crucial node in Calc…

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Calcutta's overlooked urban archives: How did directories and almanacks turn new year into histor...

Calcutta's overlooked urban archives: How did directories and almanacks turn new year into histor...

Long before historians arrived, Calcutta was already recording itself, year after year.

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How Bengal helped create the modern world of biometric identity

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By Devasis Chattopadhyay
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These developments have heightened concerns over voter identification, Aadhaar-linked biometric verification, beneficiary authentication for welfare schemes, fraudulent citizenship claims, and the broader issues of identity and illegal migration. Behind these contemporary concerns, however, lies an old and unresolved question that modern governments around the world continue to confront: how does the state reliably establish who a person really is?
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Heart and Soul of the City

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By Devasis Chattopadhyay
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Why Kolkata’s most important civic zone demands deliberate attention, not amnesia or impulse or Bulldozers jpg clip of my opinion article in The Statesman, May 17, 2026 A new government has come to power in West Bengal and has already signalled noble intentions, including the proposal to return the State Secretariat to the historic Writers' Building in Kolkata’s B.B.D. Bagh.
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Change in the State Government and The Writers’ Building: the ‘Red House’ that watched Kolkata Become Herself

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By Devasis Chattopadhyay
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Kolkata, 9 May 2026: The Writers’ Building of Kolkata is not merely a government office. It is one of the great political theatres of modern South Asian history, a building where commerce became empire, empire became bureaucracy, and bureaucracy ultimately became the State.
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