Folk tales for children: How the Myntdu, Myntang and Umiurem rivers in Meghalaya came to be

Sobhona Bhattacharjee Utsa Bose

· Nov 05, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Adventure story: A human skull in a dead man’s trunk has a code to a treasure carved on it

Hemendra Kumar Roy Jashodhara Chakraborti

· Jun 13, 2023 · 01:30 pm

Samaresh Majumdar (1944-2023): The writer whose novels of politics set Bengali hearts on fire

Debotri Ghosh

· May 13, 2023 · 01:30 pm

Art and drama on a 19th-century Bengal scandal reveal the gender and sexual politics of the time

Olivia Majumdar

· Jun 16, 2020 · 08:30 am

Essay: You cannot go back home once you have left it. You find it afresh in literature and language

Kunal Ray

· Dec 29, 2019 · 07:30 am

‘Pather Panchali’: Why translating this Bengali classic in the 21st century holds all-new challenges

Rimi

· Nov 30, 2019 · 07:30 am

Adda: What the institution of the convivial community chat over ‘cha’ means for Bengali literature

Faisal Mahmud

· Oct 26, 2019 · 12:30 pm

How males were created: A Bengali feminist wrote this wicked fable nearly a hundred years ago

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

· Jul 18, 2019 · 07:30 am

Why readers will almost never encounter anything like these two ‘anti-novels’ by Subimal Misra

Sayali Palekar

· Jun 15, 2019 · 12:30 pm

A new book chronicles the radically iconoclastic movement in Bengali poetry in the 1960s

Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury

· Jan 08, 2019 · 08:30 am

This Bengali radio show’s storytelling skills could put even Netflix in the shade

Preetha Banerjee

· Dec 05, 2018 · 03:30 pm

Interview: Can the famed ‘little magazine’ culture of Bengali literature thrive in the digital age?

Chandrima Pal

· Sep 15, 2018 · 12:30 pm

In Q’s ‘Nabarun’, a look back at the renegade Bengali writer with a cult following

Devarsi Ghosh

· Jun 24, 2018 · 09:15 am

One of India’s earliest crime fiction stories was about a delicious scam involving books

Abhijit Gupta

· Jan 10, 2018 · 05:30 pm

One hundred years later, ‘Devdas’ is still celebrated as the anti-masculine hero

Nikhil Govind

· Jun 04, 2017 · 07:30 am

The Partition fiction very few people read: The literature of displacement from Assam’s Barak Valley

Suranjana Choudhury

· Mar 25, 2017 · 08:30 am

How Durga Puja made reading cool to entire generations

Devapriya Roy

· Oct 11, 2016 · 08:30 am

Mahasweta Devi (1926-2016) was a fighter all her life, through her books and through her activism

Anjum Katyal

· Jul 28, 2016 · 04:04 pm