bengali
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‘Taranath Tantrik’: Fascinating tales of occult practices from a classic Bengali writer
Chittajit Mitra
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This translation brings Bengali writer Krishnagopal Mallick’s queer short stories to the world
Krishnagopal Mallick Niladri R Chatterjee
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Samaresh Majumdar (1944-2023): The writer whose novels of politics set Bengali hearts on fire
Debotri Ghosh
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‘Truth/Untruth’: Mahasweta Devi’s novel about a pregnant maid’s death is as comedic as it is morbid
Sayari Debnath
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Mahasweta Devi’s thriller exposes the moral hypocrisy of the affluent when a pregnant maid dies
Mahasweta Devi
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This new anthology features Bengali writers who wrote about man-made and supernatural spectres
Dinesh Chandra Sen
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‘Hawa Hawa’: In Nabarun Bhattacharya’s stories, Calcutta is a festering wound that refuses to heal
Sayari Debnath
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Part two of Manoranjan Byapari’s ‘Runaway Boy’: Jibon, now in his twenties, fights to survive hunger
Manoranjan Byapari
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How Kabir Suman’s album of urban ballads, ‘Tomake Chai’, caused a ‘culture-quake’ in Bengali music
Sayandeb Chowdhury Rajendran Narayanan
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Paresh Rawal apologises for ‘cook fish for Bengalis’ remark during poll rally in Gujarat
Scroll Staff
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London: Watch Bengali singers Sahana Bajpaie, Moushumi Bhoumik, Sohini Alam sing famous Bangla song
Scroll Staff
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Set in 18th century Bengal, this novel probes gender-class conflicts through a dancing girl’s murder
Shaheen Akhtar
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Myth and history come together with magic realism in this recently translated Bengali novel
Amar Mitra
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An iconic novel by the Bengali poet Jibanananda Das is reborn through an English translation
Jibanananda Das
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‘Aranyak’: A new translation brings back Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s iconic Bengali novel
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
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Watch: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on her project to have Bengali literature translated into English
Scroll Staff
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Abul Bashar’s stories, now translated into English, offer an intricate, intimate view of lived Islam
Abul Bashar
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In Anita Agnihotri’s ‘Mahanadi’, fiction is interrupted by facts to create a braided narrative
Isa Ayidh
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Remembering Bengali writer Sirsho Bandopadhyay (1967-2021) with his novel ‘Tiger Woman’
Sirsho Bandopadhyay
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Manoranjan Byapari’s autobiographical novel is a relentless record of ordeals, with no hope in sight
Adit Shankar