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Soumen Paul is the Production Director at New Central Book Agency Pvt Ltd, Kolkata, India. He has published multiple books, wrote many articles in magazines.

Dr. Dilip K. Som is a physicist, entrepreneur, and cultural enthusiast based in Germantown, Maryland. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the City University of New York (CUNY). Professionally, he is renowned as a pioneer in the media accessibility industry, earning the title "guru of closed captioning." He co-founded Computer Prompting & Captioning Co. (CPC) in 1985, where he developed the first PC-based closed captioning software. He currently leads Caption Depot.

Beyond his technical career, Dr. Som is actively involved in Bengali cinema and literature. He produced the Bengali film Curzoner Kalom (2021). He is also a key figure in the Juktibadi Sanaskritik Sanstha (Rationalist Cultural Organization) in Canning, West Bengal. In this capacity, he co-edited the reference book Snakes, Snakebites and Treatments alongside Soumen Paul, and has authored works such as the Ghanada Omnibus.