Bengali
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For children: Short stories written (and illustrated) by Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury in translation
Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury Lopamudra Maitra
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The Kuvempu Rashtriya Puraskar 2023 goes to Bengali writer Shirshendhu Mukhopadhyay
Scroll Staff
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Magic realism: The legend of German alchemist Johann Bottger in 19th-century Bengali literature
Trailokyanath Mukhopadhyay Sucheta Dasgupta
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Memoir: An Indian woman faces the Taliban’s horrors after moving to Afghanistan with her husband
Sushmita Bandyopadhyay Arunava Sinha
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‘There is a ban even on breathing’: Leftist poet Birendra Chattopadhyay on the horrors of war
Birendra Chattopadhyay Sayandeb Chowdhury
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Fiction: A young poet shares all his secrets with a tree. Soon his life will be transformed by love
Srijato Mahargya Chakraborty
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‘The Nemesis’: In a caste-sick society, anger is the only choice for Manoranjan Byapari’s alter ego
Sayari Debnath
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Can Rabindranath Tagore be called a nativist?
R Raj Rao
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A new book brings 14 short stories of Bengali women authors from Bangladesh and India in translation
Tilottama Majumdar Subarna Banerjee
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Between two World Wars, Syed Mujtaba Ali set out on a ship from India to Europe. This is his story
Syed Mujtaba Ali Nazes Afroz
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‘I write life on paper’: Taslima Nasrin’s poetry has been translated into English for the first time
Taslima Nasrin Jesse Waters
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‘Translating women writers enables their cultural positions to be represented’: Alo Shome
Veeksha Vagmita
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‘Arise out of the lock’: 50 Bangladeshi women poets from several generations in translation
Sadaf Saaz Nabina Das, Sufia Kamal, Anjana Saha, Leesa Gazi, Shanta Maria, Asma Beethe
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‘Didi’: A 1915 novel about widowhood and polygamy deftly portrays the tragedies of womanhood
Veeksha Vagmita
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Bengal Cabinet approves proposal to make Bengali 2nd mandatory language in English medium schools
Scroll Staff
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Translated fiction: A Bangladeshi writer explores body horror genre in a new book of short stories
Mojaffor Hossain Mohammad Shafiqul Islam
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Why the Election Commission’s Assam delimitation proposal is being seen as communal
Rokibuz Zaman
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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
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Science fiction: Can a small band of rebels free the world from the clutches of time-bound terror?
Dipen Bhattacharya Chirayata Chakrabarty
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‘Taranath Tantrik’: Fascinating tales of occult practices from a classic Bengali writer
Chittajit Mitra