Manasij Majumder is a well-known name in the field of art writing in India. He started out as a lecturer in English in a college affiliated to Calcutta University, but throughout his teaching career he wrote regularly on Art, Theatre, Dance and various other cultural events in a number of newspapers and magazines, notably Hindustan Standard, Desh, Sananda, The Telegraph and Ananda Bazaar Patrika. After retiring as Reader in English, he now continues to write on Art, profiling artists, introducing catalogues and exhibitions as well as full-length studies of several major artists. He writes regular Theatre reviews for Ananda Bazaar Patrika, and is a good hand at polemical writing. Among his major Art books are Sakti Burman, Dreamer on the Ark and Art Moves, Works by Sunil Das.