The Last Time I Saw Tibet

Bimal Dey was born in 1940 in Kolkata. He travelled to Tibet on foot in 1956, at the age of sixteen; this journey is the subject of his travelogue The Last Time I Saw Tibet. From 1967 to 1972, he undertook a 230,000 kilometre journey around the world on an ordinary bicycle. He has also been to the Arctic Circle and Antarctica a number of time. A yoga teacher of repute, he lives in France and is associated with a number of social welfare projects in Africa and in India. Malobika Chaudhuri runs Mono Translation Bureau, a multilingual translation agency, in Kolkata, she has translated several novels of Saratchandra Chattopadhyay for Penguin.