Pradyumna Prabhu (Paul Sherbow) introduced us to Kalyani Basu, a member of the family of the Late Rajendralal Basu, the first president of the Asiatic Society. This family, who has a century-old deity of Śrī Balarāma and Revatī, invited the BRC team to one of their house festivals. There, the team met Mrs. Basu’s brother, Mr. Swarup Mitra, who mentioned that they had a collection of manuscripts.
The manuscripts being disorganized, he entrusted the BRC team with the responsibility of arranging them. For fifteen days, the team worked at their house, arranging, preserving, and digitizing the manuscripts. During this process, the team also discovered a very old manuscript of Haribhaktivilāsa in excellent condition.
The team began by cleaning the almirahs where the manuscripts were stored, and then digitizing and properly arranging them.