Life in a Rectangle: The World Around 55B, Mirza Ghalib Street

Interesting stories of the good times, fun times, sad times, bad times, true advertising times of an era gone by. A memoir that makes you go back in time to experience the good old days with the who s who of the ad world. An Engaging, easy-to-read book, with an amusing pack of tales that will keep you entertained.

Author Sujit Sanyal rambles down the memory lane in his candid memoir and narrates some revealing, some intriguing and other wacky stories about the advertising world from his Clarion days, his first agency, which he joined as a trainee and whose Kolkata branch he later went on to head.

This is more than just a book of what advertising was in Calcutta. In many ways it is an insight into how the city shaped some of its best and how those very people then outgrew Calcutta . . . a complelling read . . . Suhel Seth