Sukanta Chaudhuri (born 1950), author of Infirm Glory: Shakespeare and the Renaissance Image of Man (Oxford, 1981) and other books on the English Renaissance, has worked on the links and parallels between the European and the Bengal Renaissances, and the possibility of a common model of a 'Renaissance'. He has translated Rabindranath Tagore and Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay and other Bengali writers, and co-founded the School of Cultural Texts and Records, which does digital archiving, database creation and computational analysis of texts, and ran the project Bichitra, a comprehensive online variorum of the works of Tagore. Chaudhuri edited the authoritative two-volume reference work Calcutta: The Living City (OUP Delhi, 1990). He writes and campaigns extensively on urban issues, especially as concerning his native city, Kolkata.

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