This is Pentasect's second E-book. This is about our Editor's own experience for last four years as a business-owner of Wordsmith Communication and Editor of Pentasect, having left his corporate mansabdari. The Book narrates his interaction with business, what he learnt (or did not) while successively being a Government Officer, a PSU Officer, then a Corporate Manager. He tells how he got his MBA from UK only to discover unemployed - left with family and only one business asset : an idea he saw being fruitful while in a ship in one dark night in Central Indian Ocean. Pentasect will publish the full E-book shortly. Contact : editor@pentasect.com

A classic poetry on Calcutta by poet Tarapada Roy - while a boy looked at her for the first time. Many of her greatest sons and daughters have looked at her first time and fell into a kind of a strange love. Going back, any city worth its name has an occult pull - a pull which can be called Providence as well. You are destinned to live or die in a city. This kind of work on one's own city is also a pointer to the civic health of a city-civilization. Courtesy of Collection : Sankhadip.

No city is worth a city unless it has her encyclopaedists, illustrators, strange and secret lovers – irregular sons and non-regular daughters. A true city should also have her fair share of dwellers those could be anywhere but consciously made the city their home. Ethereal Minstrels in one way - they are also the pilgrims of the city

Our first photo gallery. We have created a photo-bank and will try to put short photo essays - complementing Calcutta Culture Glossary. The Day and Night in the horloge of the City. Photo Courtesy : Himadri and Sankhadip.

Mr. Mohan greeted me with a wry smile and asked me to wait as I went to his office where endless rows and columns of cubicles seem more like a poultry firm. Mohan works in a company providing financial services and that was the only information I could get from him. As I was waiting in the lobby which provided me a glimpse of the row-column matrix, I remembered the hallucination of Chaplin‘s mate in The Gold Rush while the hungry friend‘s vision alternates between a surprised Chaplin and an appetizing hen.

This is a short story from the leading and living novelist Mr. Shekhar Das of Silchar (Assam). Mr. Das has been writing short stories and novel in Bengali for last forty years. We are proud to publish his work - der werke as he calls for the first time in Pentasect. From his 'Riverview Annexe' by the Barak, he told Editor Pritam his artistic inspiration : 'the Sylheti-Cachari tradition runs richly in my veins... And I think I like to shoot story....' He is making a small film.

Bengal is slowly entering a very critical phase in her modern history. I am using thre word critical after much forethought. It has been the historical precedent in this land that whenever an established power changed, there was tremendous upheaval and bloodshed.