Signet Press

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Signet Press

Founded	1943; 81 years ago (1943)
Founder	Sanskrit College), Kolkata, West Bengal
Publication types	Books

Signet Press is a publishing house that was established in 1943 in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), West Bengal, India, by Dilip Kumar Gupta (popularly known as D. K.) and his mother-in-law Neelima Guha Thakurta.^[1][2]

History

Located at the famous book arcade of College Street in front of

's Naam rekhechi Komol Gandhar.

Significance in the history of Bengali publication

The significance of Signet Press' arrival in College street, can be rightly found in the lines of Shankha Ghosh , from his book 'Boiyer Ghor". He writes:

"Then came the store of Signet press. That is, it came to College Street. Even in the forties, many books were published from Signet, with its infallible mark of elegance, its selection and printing. But with the opening of its new store on Bankim Chatterjee Street, we no longer had to wander from place to place looking for books of poetry, be it Jibanananda Das or Sudhindranath Dutta. Dilip Kumar Gupta's diligent work on the neatness of printing (everyone knows him as DK), Satyajit Ray's excellent taste of aesthetics illustrating its covers, and the writings of modern poets - all these combined to create a dream world for all of us. The years of fifty-two and fifty-three, when we were at our twenty-one years of age, we saw the publication of new books from Signet, coming before our eyes one after the other; 'Banalata Sen', 'Sanvarta', 'Parapar', 'Naam rekhechi Komal Gandhar', 'Amavasya'!. Then came the new edition of 'Orchestra' with a brand new, changed, introduction of which we began to return to our mouths: ‘I am rooted in darkness, rising towards the light’. ‘Samar Sen’s Poems’. The new versions of 'Swagata' and 'Kulaya O Kalpurush'to be released from Signet in their new attire were still a few years away.

It is safe to say that Signet also brought a lot of courage to modern poetry. They also started publishing books by young poets like

. Besides, new versions of 'Prothoma' and 'Samrat', or 'Winter Prayer: Answer to Spring' appeared in different houses. We no longer have any thoughts for poetry books. Signet's organization was ubiquitous, with a liberal call for "read poetry, read poetry." They even had a lot of new ideas to pull the aspiring mind from many directions, like giving a little lovely slip with a book to write a gift."

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