
Thema, founded in the late 1980s, is a small publishing initiative, with titles both in English and Bengali/ Bangla, focusing on and specializing in:
- Radical literature in translation, featuring authors like Mahesweta Devi, Günter Grass, Wilhelm Busch, Manik Bandyopadhyay, Samaresh Basu, and poets from the Naxalite underground; with substantial introductions.
- Memoiral and personal texts by actresses in theatre and cinema, exploring the interfaces of performance and gender.
- Theatre and cinema and fine arts and music.
- Monographs in social analysis, and on science in society.
- Documentation of popular culture, proverbs, and women's lives.
- Children's literature, including Indian Children's classics in English translation.
Source: themabooks.in