Historians Abhijit Gupta, Tapati Guha-Thakurta and editor-designer Susnato Chowdhury trace the diverse history of bookmaking in Bengal through illustrated presentations on the social life of printed images, transformations in typography and the letterpress craft—followed by a roundtable discussion. 

Abhijit Gupta is a leading scholar of book history in South Asia, Professor of English, and Director of the School of Cultural Texts and Records at Jadavpur University. He earned his PhD from Cambridge in 1996, later returning as a Visiting Fellow at CRASSH in 2013. Instrumental in establishing book history as a field in India, he co-edited the Book History in India series with Swapan Chakravorty and authored The Spread of Print in Colonial India: Into the Hinterland (Cambridge University Press, 2021). His honours include the Charles Wallace India Trust Award (2007) and a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship (2009). 

Tapati Guha-Thakurta is an art historian renowned for her interdisciplinary scholarship on modern and contemporary South Asia, currently serving as Honorary Professor at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Her work critically examines how art is shaped by nationalism, institutions, and the public sphere. Her landmark book The Making of a New 'Indian' Art explored the Bengal School and anti-colonial nationalism, while Monuments, Objects, Histories examined the contested politics of archaeology and museums. Her more recent research turns to the contemporary art market and urban public spectacles, notably in In the Name of the Goddess. 

Susnato Chowdhury is an independent researcher and writer who has been publisher and editor of the Bengali little magazine Bodhshabdo since 1999. In 2023, he launched Haraphcarcā, a magazine dedicated to typography. A former India Foundation for the Arts grantee for projects on printing and publishing, he is also a founding trustee of the Mudran Foundation. His publications include Pustani Periye (2024), Pahari Press: Mudranetihase Parbatya Darjeeling (2021), and Mudran Karmashala: Little Magazine: File Copy (Ed., 2018). In 2024, he compiled a glossary of terms used by Kolkata's bookbinders, or daftaris.