Pulak Chanda's areas of interest include national and international social history, cultural studies and literature. An editor of repute, books edited by him are often accepted as authoritative. As will be the Diary of Samar Sen.

Publications

• Aprokashito Samar Sen: Dinalipi o Jujuke (Unpublished Samar Sen: Diary and Letters to Juju). ed. Pulak Chanda. Kolkata: Dey's Publishing, 2009
• Nari Biswa (A Collection of Essays on Women Studies). Diamond Jubilee Commemoration Volume. Burdwan: Syamsundar College (in collaboration with Gangchil, Kolkata), 2008.
• Babubrittanta O Prasangik (The Annals of a Babu and Relevant Writings. Annotated edition of Samar Sen's Autobiography), Kolkata: Dey's Publishing, 2004.
• British Bharate Siksha-sarajantro (History of Colonial Education in Bengal ), Kolkata: Lekhani, 2001.
• Chhotoder Mahabharat. ed. Kolkata: Lekhani Prakashan, 2000.
• Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper (Bangla Onubad). Kolkata: Lekhani Prakashan, 2000.
• Nil Bidroha (History of the Indigo Revolt in Bengal ), Kolkata: Lekhani Prakashan, 2000.
• Chhotoder Ramayan , ed. Kolkata: Lekhani Prakashan,1999.
• Itihas Sampradaikata O Brahmanyatantra (History, Communalism and Brahmanism), Kolkata: Lekhani Prakashan, 1996.
• Poems of Twenty five Years (Selections from Poems published in Aneek ), ed. Kolkata: People's Book Society,1992.
• Jayanti Utsarga (Reprint of the Volume dedicated to Rabindranath on his 75th birthday), ed. Kolkata: Ekushe, 1991.
• Jagaraner Charan Mukunda Das O tnar Gaan (The Rebel Minstrel Mukunda Das and his Songs), Kolkata: Kathasilpa,1987.
• Commemorative Volume on Poet and Journalist Samar Sen, ed. Kolkata: Anustup Publications, 1987.
• Birendra Chattopadhyayer Nirbachito Kobita (Selected Poems of  Birendra Chattopadhyaya), ed, Kolkata: Kathasilpa,1980.
• Gana Kavial Ramesh Sil O Tnar Gaan (People's Poet Ramesh Sil and his Songs), Kolkata: Kathasilpa,1978.
• Rakte Bhase Swades Somay (This Blood-drenched Land , this Blood-drenched Time), an anthology of  Bengali Political Poems, ed. Kolkata: Kathasilpa,1977.
• One original poem by Pulak (in Greman translation from Bengali) was included in Ganges Delta, an anthology of Poems from India and Bangladesh , tr. into German, ed, Alokeranjan Dasgupta and Lothar Luthze, Erdman, Germany.1974.

The above list will be updated to a far more detailed one soon.