‘Taranath Tantrik’: Fascinating tales of occult practices from a classic Bengali writer

Chittajit Mitra

· May 27, 2023 · 05:30 pm

This translation brings Bengali writer Krishnagopal Mallick’s queer short stories to the world

Krishnagopal Mallick Niladri R Chatterjee

· May 18, 2023 · 05:30 pm

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

Debotri Ghosh

· May 13, 2023 · 01:30 pm

‘Truth/Untruth’: Mahasweta Devi’s novel about a pregnant maid’s death is as comedic as it is morbid

Sayari Debnath

· Apr 30, 2023 · 07:30 am

Mahasweta Devi’s thriller exposes the moral hypocrisy of the affluent when a pregnant maid dies

Mahasweta Devi

· Apr 24, 2023 · 03:30 pm

This new anthology features Bengali writers who wrote about man-made and supernatural spectres

Dinesh Chandra Sen

· Mar 01, 2023 · 05:30 pm

‘Hawa Hawa’: In Nabarun Bhattacharya’s stories, Calcutta is a festering wound that refuses to heal

Sayari Debnath

· Jan 28, 2023 · 12:30 pm

Part two of Manoranjan Byapari’s ‘Runaway Boy’: Jibon, now in his twenties, fights to survive hunger

Manoranjan Byapari

· Jan 27, 2023 · 05:30 pm

How Kabir Suman’s album of urban ballads, ‘Tomake Chai’, caused a ‘culture-quake’ in Bengali music

Sayandeb Chowdhury Rajendran Narayanan

· Jan 15, 2023 · 11:30 am

Paresh Rawal apologises for ‘cook fish for Bengalis’ remark during poll rally in Gujarat

Scroll Staff

· Dec 02, 2022 · 04:00 pm

London: Watch Bengali singers Sahana Bajpaie, Moushumi Bhoumik, Sohini Alam sing famous Bangla song

Scroll Staff

· Oct 16, 2022 · 04:37 pm

Set in 18th century Bengal, this novel probes gender-class conflicts through a dancing girl’s murder

Shaheen Akhtar

· Sep 28, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Myth and history come together with magic realism in this recently translated Bengali novel

Amar Mitra

· Jul 04, 2022 · 05:30 pm

An iconic novel by the Bengali poet Jibanananda Das is reborn through an English translation

Jibanananda Das

· Apr 20, 2022 · 05:30 pm

‘Aranyak’: A new translation brings back Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s iconic Bengali novel

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

· Apr 12, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Watch: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on her project to have Bengali literature translated into English

Scroll Staff

· Apr 11, 2022 · 04:12 pm

Abul Bashar’s stories, now translated into English, offer an intricate, intimate view of lived Islam

Abul Bashar

· Sep 17, 2021 · 05:30 pm

In Anita Agnihotri’s ‘Mahanadi’, fiction is interrupted by facts to create a braided narrative

Isa Ayidh

· Sep 04, 2021 · 12:30 pm

Remembering Bengali writer Sirsho Bandopadhyay (1967-2021) with his novel ‘Tiger Woman’

Sirsho Bandopadhyay

· May 19, 2021 · 05:30 pm

Manoranjan Byapari’s autobiographical novel is a relentless record of ordeals, with no hope in sight

Adit Shankar

· Apr 25, 2021 · 08:30 am