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

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· 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

‘Advertisements hide my face’: Nine poems by the Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh (1932-2021)

Shankha Ghosh

· Apr 21, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘The Great Bengali Poetry Underground’: An anthology that dives beneath the calm surface

Rajat Chaudhuri

· Feb 05, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Hellfire’: From a bright morning full of possibilities to nightfall in a house shrouded in secrets

Harsimran Gill

· Dec 05, 2020 · 12:30 pm

West Bengal says it will not implement National Education Policy for now

Scroll Staff

· Sep 07, 2020 · 10:20 pm

For Bengali publishing, the pandemic has provided a much-needed push towards e-books

Sandip Roy

· Sep 05, 2020 · 05:30 pm

How the lockdown (and then the cyclone) caught Bengali language publishing on the wrong foot

Tridib Chatterjee

· May 25, 2020 · 08:30 am

Debesh Roy (1936-2020): The Bengali novelist who spent his writing life in search of a local form

Shamik Ghosh

· May 18, 2020 · 08:30 am

Bengali actor, former MP Tapas Pal dies at 61

Scroll Staff

· Feb 18, 2020 · 09:19 am

Dear Amit Shah, a reading list for you as you learn Bengali (to win West Bengal elections)

Sajni Mukherji

· Jan 26, 2020 · 05:30 pm

‘Kaagoj amra dekhabo na’: Bengali actors, filmmakers and writers speak out against CAA, NRC, NPR

Scroll Staff

· Jan 13, 2020 · 02:33 pm

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