Photographs

The Samaresh Basu Digital Archive has digitised around one hundred and fifty photographs of Samaresh Basu from the collection of his family and friends. This section presents a subset of these digitised images, which has been divided under three categories – Portraits, Family & Friends, and Event & Gatherings. The name of the photographer has been included wherever identified.

Copyright of the material will remain with the original holders of the copyright, and does not devolve to the Samaresh Basu Digital Archive, which only serves as custodian of the digital files. All archival material digitsed and presented through this website are for research and educational purposes only.

PORTRAITS

The archive has digitised forty portraits of Samaresh Basu, out of which a selected range of images are being presented in this digital platform which captures the author in many moods, across his lifetime.

Samaresh in his youth | Date- Circa 1939 | Photographer- Unidentified | Collection- Udit Basu

Samaresh rowing a boat on the Ganges at Naihati | Date- Circa 1958 | Photographer- Unidentified | Collection: Mousumi Samaddar

Samaresh at his Naihati residence | Date- Circa 1957 | Photographer- Unidentified | Collection- Mousumi Samaddar

Samaresh holding a puppy | Date- Circa 1960 | Photographer- Unidentified | Collection- Udit Basu

Samaresh portrait | Date- Circa 1965 | Photographer- Nemai Ghosh| Collection- Udit Basu

Samaresh passport photograph | Date- Circa 1954 | Photographer- Unidentified | Collection- Udit Basu

Samaresh at Nagaland with local tribal woman | Date- Circa 1981 | Photographer- Unidentified | Collection- Udit Basu

Samaresh at car rally | Date- Circa 1979 | Photographer- Unidentified | Collection- Udit Basu

Samaresh in a candid mood at his Naihati residence | Date- Circa 1981 | Photographer- Sudipta Bhattacharya | Collection- Mousumi Samaddar

Samaresh at his writing desk | Date- Circa 1983 | Photographer- Unidentified | Collection- Mousumi Samaddar

Samaresh profile | Date- Circa 1986 | Photographer- Unidentified | Collection- Udit Basu

Samaresh at his residence in Naihati | Date- Circa 1987 | Photographer- Unidentified | Collection- Udit Basu

FAMILY AND FRIENDS

The archive has digitised eighty photographs from family albums of the author’s friends and family. Most of these photographs in this section provide a glimpse of his private life, not otherwise in public view before.

Samaresh and Gauri | Date- Circa 1953 | Photographer- Unidentified | Collection- Bulbul Basu

Samaresh with family at his in-law’s residence in Naihati | Date- Circa 1962 | Photographer- Unidentified | Collection- Udit Basu

Samaresh with his four children, Nabakumar, Mousumi, Debkumar and Bulbul (l-r) | Date- Circa 1956 | Photographer- Unidentified | Collection- Mousumi Samaddar

Samaresh with daughter Mousumi | Date- Circa 1971 | Photographer- Unidentified | Collection- Mousumi Samaddar

Samaresh with his daughter-in-law (Mita Basu) mother, daughter (Bulbul Basu) and grandson (Arjun Bhattacharya) (l-r) | Date- Circa 1973 | Photographer- Unidentified | Collection- Mousumi Samaddar

Samaresh with Kanika Bandopadhyay | Date- Circa 1964 | Photographer- Unidentified | Collection- Mousumi Samaddar

Samaresh with second wife Dharitri Basu and son Udit Basu | Date- Circa 1973 | Photographer- Unidentified | Collection- Udit Basu

Samaresh in a candid mood with Sunil Gangopadhyay and Sagormoy Ghosh | Date- Circa 1985 | Photographer- Unidentified | Collection- Udit Basu

Samaresh with family friends Prof Haroprosad Mukhopadhyay and Maitrali Mukhopadhyay | Date- Circa 1980 | Photographer- Unidentified | Collection- Kanchana Mukhopadhyay

Samaresh with little ones including granddaughters Nilanjana and Sarani | Date- Circa 1980 | Photographer- Unidentified | Collection- Udit Basu

Samaresh with friends | Date- Circa 1980 | Photographer- Unidentified | Collection- Udit Basu

Samaresh with grandson Prachetash | Date- Circa 1985 | Photographer- Unidentified | Collection- Mousumi Samaddar

EVENTS AND GATHERINGS

The archive has digitised twenty-eight photographs which documents Samaresh Basu’s active social life. He was a people’s person and the selected range of photographs in this section provides a view into his interaction across varied gatherings.