A decade ago, in March 2013, I visited Manish Da’s (Manish Mitra, the director of the Kasba Arghya theatre group) home for the first time for a lunch invitation. That afternoon marked my initial foray into Kolkata’s professional Theatre world, although my relationship with the stage was not new. Despite my teenage uncertainties and hesitations, our conversation that day revolved solely around academics and not Theatre, coincidentally tied together by our mutual connection with the SUCI and Ashutosh College. Over the past decade, my political, social, and aesthetic positions have diverged somewhat from the general crowd of artists in Kolkata. Consequently, I still do not feel entirely ‘comfortable’ within the conventional understanding of Bengali Theatre. Nevertheless, that day holds immense significance for me. It was in Manishda’s library that my academic pride first took a hit. Not because of the sheer number of books, but because among the books there,