International Calendar Exhibition was started by none other than D K Gupta of the famous publishing house, Signet and Swami Somananda of Ramakrishnan Ashram.
Signet Press was established by D. K. Gupta in 1943. The famed film-director Satyajit Ray worked as a visual designer in this publishing house at the onset of his career and many of the books don the covers designed by him. The press has published many renowned books like Jawaharlal Nehru's Discovery of India, Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay's Pather Panchali, Jibanananda Das's Rupasi Bangla, Saat-ti taarar timir etc. It was Dilip Kumar Gupta, owner of Signet Press that brought out limited edition Bengali Books. In 1955 while working in D J Keymer and producing a Calendar for his client, he felt that we know little about this art and together with Swami Somananda started collecting Calendars to study.
In 1955 Dilip Gupta along with Swami Somananda started the International Calendar Exhibition which continues till date.
D K Gupta was the founding President followed by Satyajit Ray and R P Gupta.
I have been nominated as the President from 2023.
