The Cafe Table

Logo of The Cafe Table

The Cafe Table is a New Age publishing house of fiction and nonfiction in Bengali book industry based in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It is owned by Arijit Bhadra and Avishek Aich. They are mostly famous for bringing quality social media (mainly Facebook) content into mainstream media successfully. Although, in their later work, they also collaborated with renowned authors like Sunil Gangopadhyay, Swapnamoy Chakraborty, Sourav Mukhopadhyay, Saikat Mukhopadhyay, Debashish Bandopadhyay, Sekhar Basu, Sujan DasGupta, Binod Ghosal, Sayantani Pututundo and others.

Genesis and history

The Cafe Table was founded in 2016 by Avishek Aich and Arijit Bhadra. It all began in January 2016 when the idea of turning hidden thoughts into tangible treasures like books sparked within The Cafe Table team. Their journey started in July 2016 by publishing Nunete Vatete (Bengali: নুনেতে ভাতেতে ), a book about the food heritage and culture of the Indian subcontinent, edited by Ramkrishna Bhattacharya Sannyal and Anarja Tapas. Since then, The Cafe Table has become a platform that has witnessed several known and unknown authors get their scripts published. Followed by Shanto, Market Visit, Ekenbabu Somogro 1, at the end of 2018, within a time span of two and a half years The Cafe Table had 100 titles to its credit, which makes it one of the leading New Publishers in College Street.

Logo, mascot and official song

The Cafe Table is regarded as the first publisher in the Bengali book publishing industry to have a mascot. Coco, the official mascot of Cafe Table, was created by Sourav Bera. Not only that, they are also the first publisher to have an official song. The song Jite Nebe Dil is written and composed by Hridoybari band. An official music video of the song was launched on YouTube on 30 January 2018.

The logo of The Cafe Table is designed by Avishek Aich.

Vision

According to the team at Cafe Table:

The Cafe Table is self-describing in itself. It's just a cafe with a table, where a table is all you need to share your thoughts and shape them into real good books. We are a band of book bugs offering various publishing, book printing and distribution options to both authors and publishers from across the globe. From book making to book marketing, you will get every flavor with it. Because with The Cafe Table, it’s not just about book publishing, it’s about book branding!

The Cafe Table is at its nascent stage, yet etching pride and success with every piece of book it has published. It has just set out creating examples and we look forward to building up a stronger bond with you, our dearest book companions.

Publishing career

In their first year of publishing, The Cafe Table mainly focused on bringing good quality social media (mostly Facebook) Bengali literary content to mainstream publication. To fulfill this goal, they worked on four major books; Shanto (written by Raja Bhattacharya), Market Visit (written by Avik Sarkar), Alpote Golpo (written by Ramkrishna Bhattacharya Sannyal), Sierra Leone Shihoron (written by Bivas Raychaudhuri). Shanto and Market Visit became best sellers at the 2017 Kolkata International book fair.

But they changed their vision after the book fair. Alongside social media content, they have worked with several renowned authors of contemporary Bengali literature, resulting in the publication of Gol Golpo Chouko Golpo (the first published collection of stories by renowned author Sourav Mukhopadhyay), Kissawala (a collection of 40 stories written by Saikat Mukhopadhyay), Dhorshoner Athero Din Por (18 days after the rape; written by Debotosh Dash), Rupkothar Jonmodin, EK Bishwasghatoker Kahini and many others.

They tied up with Ghoraddim magazine as publishers, which produced two issues. Although the tie-up broke, in 2018, The Cafe Table published their own magazine Hattimatim (Sharodiya).

They have re-published Ekjon Sub Editorer kotipoy Chenrakhora din (written by Rubayt Ahamed) and Das Partyr Khonje (written by Hasan Murshed) as a tie-up project with Bangladesh.

The Cafe Table has tied up with internationally famous publishing houses like Penguin Random House and Scholastic Inc for their new upcoming project Eke Chandra Duie Rokto (the Bengali translation of Rahul Pandita's national bestseller Our moon has blood clots) and Nagrajer Guptokotha (the Bengali translation of Sayntani Dasgupta's Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond #1: The Serpent's Secret).

Writers

The Cafe Table has worked with several renowned as well as new authors. Raja Bhattacharjya, Avik Sarkar, Sudeb Bhattacharjee, and several other writers started their writing careers with The Cafe Table. They also worked with several known figures of modern Bengali literature, including Sourav Mukhopadhyay, Saikat Mukhopadhyay, Binod Ghoshal, Shekhar Basu, Sayantani Putatunda, Sujan Dashgupta, Bipul Das and many others.

Published books

The following is an incomplete list of books published by The Cafe Table.

Fiction

Novels

• Karonbari (collection of three novels by Bipul Das)
• Sandhyakor Nandi O Totkaleen Bongosomaj (written by Debotosh Dash)
• Ramdanar Rupkothara (written by Chinmoy Nath)

Story collection

• Gol Golpo Chouko Golpo (the first published collection of stories by Sourav Mukhopadhyay)
• Kissawala (collection of 40 stories written by Saikat Mukhopadhyay)[1]
• Dhorshoner Athero Din Por (18 days after the rape; written by Debotosh Dash)

Thriller

• Mayabinir Maniqueen (written by Debanjan Mukhopadhyay)[2]
• Byaktigoto Shotru (written by Dipika Majumdar)

Non fiction

Reportage

• Das Partyr Khonje (written by Hasan Murshed)
• Dohonnama (written by Debasish Aich)

Essays

• Nunete Vatete 1,2,3 (নুনেতে ভাতেতে, edited by Ramkrishna Bhattacharya Sannyal and Anarja Tapas)
• Nimkathir jeebon (written by Debasish Aich).

Feature collection

• Shanto (written by Raja Bhattacharya)
• Market Visit (written by Avik Sarkar)

Travelogue

• Upekkhito Nayak (written by Chinmoy Nath)
• Albida Pakistan (written by Shuvashish Chattapadhay)

Memoirs

• Lamar Jhola (written by Karma Gyan Bojro Repa)
• Porshudiner Kgoj (written by Aditi Basuroy)

External links

• Official website
• Official website

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