Bengali
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‘Talashnama’: Novel about religious fundamentalism is testament to the political significance of art
Veeksha Vagmita
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Translated fiction: Bengali couple Sudeep and Kamalika raise their children in 1980s’ America
Bani Basu Debali Mookerjea-Leonard
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Fiction: An Indian man and Afghani woman fall in love in 1920s’ Kabul, but a tragic fate awaits them
Syed Mujtaba Ali Nazes Afroz
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Fiction: A motley crew of strange characters come together in a magic-realist remapping of Calcutta
Nabarun Bhattacharya Rijula Das
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Sunday book pick: A marriage made in hell in Jibanananda Das’s 1970 novel ‘Malloban’
Sayari Debnath
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‘Rebel poet’ Kazi Nazrul Islam’s short stories can now be read in a newly translated volume
Kazi Nazrul Islam Saurav Dasthakur
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Fiction: A Muslim woman returns to her village to face disapproval after her Hindu husband’s death
Ismail Darbesh V Ramaswamy
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‘The Meat Market’: These stories take an ice-cold plunge into clammy depths of human behaviour
Saloni Sharma
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Translated short fiction: A 73-year-old Indian man goes to Bangladesh, his ‘land of birth’, to die
Mashiul Alam Shabnam Nadiya
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A novel in dialogue: Two strangers share a flat in the maddening city of Mumbai
Swati Guha V Ramaswamy
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An exhibition has brought to life the colourful history of (mostly black-and-white) comics in Bengal
Debotri Ghosh
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‘Bangladesh: A Literary Journey’: An anthology that takes a stand against cultural elitism
Ikhtisad Ahmed
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‘The spirit of a writer must be open as the sky’: Kazi Nazrul Islam on how to write great literature
Kazi Nazrul Islam Radha Chakravarty
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Abanindranath Tagore’s stories for children about the Sun Dynasty of Mewar get new English versions
Abanindranath Tagore Sandipan Deb
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Travelogue: In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Durgacharan Rakshit travelled to most parts of India
Durgacharan Rakshit Sarbani Putatunda
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In translation: Subimal Misra’s ‘anti-stories’ about the Gulf War and other man-made atrocities
Subimal Misra V Ramaswamy
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In search of life and of self: Revisiting the literary works of Samaresh Basu in his centenary year
Debotri Ghosh
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Watch: This singer has reimagined a Bengali version of Anuv Jain’s hit song ‘Husn’
Scroll Staff
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Translated fiction: Bengali master Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s short stories about the paranormal
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay Prasun Roy
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Watch: Comic routine depicts hilarious conversation between Marathi- and Bengali-speaking roommates
Scroll Staff