Bhatkal and Sen

Bhatkal & Sen is a publishing partnership between Mandira Sen and Popular Prakashan. The company is based in Kolkata and publishes the imprints Stree and Samya. It is noted for publishing authors such as Kancha Ilaiah, Om Prakash Valmiki, Uma Chakravarti, Gail Omvedt, Manikuntala Sen, Ashok Mitra, V. Geetha, and Bani Basu,[citation needed] and has prominent scholars such as Susie Tharu and Maithreyi Krishnaraj as editors.[citation needed] It publishes academic works in the social sciences, memoirs and classic fiction in translation in English and Bengali.

Popular Prakashan is a Bombay-based publishing firm established in 1920 by Ganesh R. Bhatkal, a former employee of OUP Bombay.