The Book of Cricket Lists
Barry co-authored (with Mudar Patherya) The Penguin Book of Cricket Lists published by Penguin India in 1987, with a Foreword by Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi. (The book is now out of print.)
Barry co-authored (with Mudar Patherya) The Center Fresh Book of Cricket Lists in 1997, with a Foreword by Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi. (The book is now out of print.)
Coca-Cola World Cup Cricket Booklet
A 16-page promotional booklet for Coca-Cola containing interesting facts, statistics, trivia, lists and quizzes on World Cup cricket. This booklet’s print run over 25 lakh. Heritage conceived, researched, designed and published this booklet.
Britannia Spirit of the Olympics Booklet
A 16-page promotional booklet for Britannia containing interesting facts, statistics, trivia, lists, stories and quizzes on the Summer Olympics. This booklet’s print run was over 10 lakh. Heritage conceived, researched, designed and published this booklet.
Coca-Cola World Cup Football Booklet
This uniquely designed football shaped (bellow opening) Coke promotional booklet contained interesting facts, statistics, trivia, lists and quizzes on World Cup Football. This booklet’s print run was more than 25 lakh. Heritage conceived, researched, designed and published this booklet.
Centre-fresh Cricket Lists Booklet
A series of small size, 16 page promotional booklets for Centre-fresh, they contained interesting facts, statistics, trivia, lists and quizzes on the world of cricket. The print run was more than 2 crore. Heritage conceived, researched, designed and published this booklet.
Centre-Fresh Cricket Lists (Cards)
Sets of small size Centre-fresh promotional cards, containing interesting facts, statistics, trivia, lists and quizzes on World of cricket. These sets of card’s print run was well over 6 crore. Heritage conceived, researched, designed and published this booklet.
Happydent Entertainment Lists (Cards)
Sets of small size promotional cards for Happydent, containing interesting facts, stats, trivias, lists and quizzes on World of Entertainment, specially Bollywood.
Memories – A Photographic Essay of India in the 1940s
Barry O’Brien conceived this coffee table publication for posterity, and co-edited it with Neil O’Brien. It is an amazing collection of rare photographs by Garney Nyss, a brilliant photographer and an incredible man. It was published by Steel Authority of India in 1998 and released in New Delhi by Shri Navin Patnaik, the Union Minister for Steel. Unfortunately, Garney Nyss passed away a few months earlier, though he did see the advance copies of the book. (This publication is now out of print.)Barry O’Brien has, in his personal collection, many more remarkable photographs of landmarks, streets, common people and mood shots of the India of the 1930s, 40s and 50s, from the Himalayas to Madras Talkies, and Mumbai’s Marine Drive to the Darjeeling-bound toy train taking the turn at the Batasia Loop.
As a columnist-journalist
- Barry O’Brien wrote a regular column — ‘An Eye on Kolkata’ — for The Telegraph. The column was hugely popular from 2001 to 2004, as it drew attention to issues of social relevance, while keeping an eye sharply focussed on the city’s cultural happenings and areas of progress. He had to discontinue writing it due to his busy schedule.
- He writes a weekly column – ‘Barry O’Brien-er Shonge Quiz Adda’ – for Aajkal, a popular Bengali daily. The sections covered in this include General Knowledge, tips on improving one’s conversational English, knowing our heritage and culture, etc.
- He wrote a regular quiz column for The Pioneer. The column was very popular from 1997 to 2000.
- He wrote a regular quiz column for Diamond Comics (magazine). The column was very popular from 1998 to 2001.
- He wrote a regular quiz column for Anandamela. The column was very popular from 1997 to 2000.
- Barry was a Sub-Editor with Sportsworld (an ABP Publication), from 1985 to 1989. He covered the Reliance World Cup Cricket 1987, several Test Matches and One Day Internationals, Wimbledon Tennis, the World Table Tennis Championships and several other sports at the national level.
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