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| Owner | Communist Party of India West Bengal State Council | 
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| Publisher | Swapan Banerjee | 
| Editor | Kalyan Bandyopadhyay | 
| Founded | 1965 | 
| Language | Bengali | 
| City | Kolkata | 
| Country | India | 
| Website | cpikalantar | 
Kalantar is a daily Bengali-language newspaper issued from Kolkata, India. It is the organ of the West Bengal State Council of the Communist Party of India. [1] It was published as a weekly newspaper since 1965; 'Kalantar' converted to a daily newspaper in the late 1960s. And have a separate weekly as it is. The header of the 'Kalantar' daily was designed by the legend film maker-artist Satyajit Ray himself. Among the early editors, veteran communist leader Somnath Lahiri, Bhabani Sen, Jyoti Dasgupta, Prabhat Dasgupta, Prof. Gautam Chattopadhyay were there. From the single-color edition it is now publishing as a four-color daily newspaper. In the autumn, Kalantar publish a festive 'Sharadiyo' edition in the book form as like as other daily newspapers in Kolkata. [2] [3]