'Parimal Bhattacharya brings us a Bengal the rest of India does not see or even know of ' – Ramachandra Guha  

'Parimal Bhattacharya takes leave of the sheltered lives of the bhadralok to discover the other side of Bengal’ – Jean Drèze  

'Deep empathy leavened with a luminous sensibility drawn from literary fiction, reminiscent of past masters in Bengali and English—Abdul Jabbar, Subhash Mukhopadhyay, V.S. Naipaul and Bruce Chatwin.' - India Today 

'Parimal Bhattacharya metamorphoses mundane reality into strangely poetic and stirring experiences. Succinct yet lucid, his narrative lures the reader into a mystical realm.’—The Statesman 

'পরিমল ভট্টাচার্য যাই লেখেন, আশ্চর্য ভালো লেখেন।' - আনন্দবাজার পত্রিকা