But the connection goes much further back to the late 1800's. The grandfather of Tarun Kanti and Srilekha was a well known Vaisnava, Mahatma Shisir Kumar Ghose.
The Ghosh family owned several prominent newspapers — Amrit Bazaar Patrika, Jugantar, Jugantar Press and had tremendous influence not just in W. Bengal but in India.
Shisir Kumar Ghose was a prominent author as well as newspaper baron and he was a personal friend of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura.
With this background it was with great pleasure then that we met Mrs. Bose in Kolkata early this year. At the behest of her nephew Tamal Kanti Ghosh, the son of Tarun Kanti, she came to visit the BRC.
She was very impressed with our efforts and promised to look for literatures to donate to the BRC from their extensive family library. Since the passing of her brother in 1996, the family estate has become scattered and the library has been broken up so she wasn't sure what she could find.
True to her word though she rang me several months ago to say she had found several books written by her grandfather which were now rare and out of print. Since she lives in Mumbai she told me to visit whenever I was over that side and she would donate them to the library.
HH Bhakti Charu Swami, BBT in chief Bhima prabhu, temple president Braj Hari prabhu and Smt. Srilekha Bose with a rare copy of Lord Gauranga or Salvation for All.
Mrs. Bose has promised to put us in touch with her niece Rita in Kolkata who knows the whereabouts of the rest of the family library. Our hope of course is to find some rare treasures for the BRC. Considering the decade long publishing collaboration between Mahatma Shisir Kumar Ghose and Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura we may find more than just books to add to our archive.