What They Kindly Said

An endless, tireless and dynamic flow of intellect. What power, attraction and fascination! That is Chinmoy, Chinmoy Guha.---MRINAL SEN

It would be difficult to find a worthier man in the whole of India.----TAPAN RAYCHAUDHURI

Epoustouflant! (Breathtaking!)Il est doué pour les langues!---JACQUES DERRIDA

I sometimes wondered if there were linguists, historians and thinkers of the enormous stature of Suniti Kumar Chattopadhyay, Nihar Ranjan Ray and Nirad C Chaudhuri in our time. Chinmoy Guha, the noted thinker and linguist, is one such. The pride of our time.---SUNIL GANGOPADHYAY

His scholarship is unique. I may be permitted to say that learning has not blunted his taste. I still despair of having his mastery of the English language. His mastery of Bengali and French adds to his qualifications. I have reports of his excellence as a teacher.---R K DASGUPTA

What hard work and labour! What expanse of knowledge, what discipline! Young people have so much to emulate him.---MAHASWETA DEVI

Chinmoy has proved that the most beautiful images, the truest and the most daring are enclosed in our everyday words.--NRISINHA PRASAD BHADURI

Few can match him in India.---FRANCE BHATTACHARYA, PARIS, French Translator of Pather Panchali

He builds bridges across our cultures. A sailor.---J M G LE CLEZIO, NOBEL LAUREATE IN LITERATURE, 2008

He has gone deeper into the French origins or sources of Eliot than any other commentator I have encountered.----FRANK KERMODE

He demonstrates how literature does more than open the door into unfamiliar civilisations. His mastery of three different literatures gives him a unique capacity to produce original perspectives. He is a rare bird, with a range of interests and knowledge seldom found in academia or anywhere else.---THEODORE ZELDIN

In the field of criticism it is as if Dr Chinmoy Guha had unearthed a rosetta stone and cracked its code, all in one.---JOE WINTER

Not only an extraordinary scholar of French, but an indefatigable researcher in Bengali and English. A true comparatist.--NABANEETA DEV SEN.

When we hear about the decline in intellect in the universities, we have the opposite example of Chinmoy Guha. His scholarship is so reassuring in the midst of ruthless consumerism and ugly tastelessness.---ASHOK MITRA

It is great that one of us has reached international level, is appreciated and admired! We feel proud. Does the mentor group of "international" Presidency University know that someone called Chinmoy Guha teaches at Calcutta University about 30 yards from there?---NABARUN BHATTACHARYA