bengali literature
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Folk tales for children: How the Myntdu, Myntang and Umiurem rivers in Meghalaya came to be
Sobhona Bhattacharjee Utsa Bose
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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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Samaresh Majumdar (1944-2023): The writer whose novels of politics set Bengali hearts on fire
Debotri Ghosh
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Art and drama on a 19th-century Bengal scandal reveal the gender and sexual politics of the time
Olivia Majumdar
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Essay: You cannot go back home once you have left it. You find it afresh in literature and language
Kunal Ray
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‘Pather Panchali’: Why translating this Bengali classic in the 21st century holds all-new challenges
Rimi
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Adda: What the institution of the convivial community chat over ‘cha’ means for Bengali literature
Faisal Mahmud
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How males were created: A Bengali feminist wrote this wicked fable nearly a hundred years ago
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
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Why readers will almost never encounter anything like these two ‘anti-novels’ by Subimal Misra
Sayali Palekar
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A new book chronicles the radically iconoclastic movement in Bengali poetry in the 1960s
Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury
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This Bengali radio show’s storytelling skills could put even Netflix in the shade
Preetha Banerjee
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Interview: Can the famed ‘little magazine’ culture of Bengali literature thrive in the digital age?
Chandrima Pal
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In Q’s ‘Nabarun’, a look back at the renegade Bengali writer with a cult following
Devarsi Ghosh
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One of India’s earliest crime fiction stories was about a delicious scam involving books
Abhijit Gupta
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One hundred years later, ‘Devdas’ is still celebrated as the anti-masculine hero
Nikhil Govind
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The Partition fiction very few people read: The literature of displacement from Assam’s Barak Valley
Suranjana Choudhury
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How Durga Puja made reading cool to entire generations
Devapriya Roy
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Mahasweta Devi (1926-2016) was a fighter all her life, through her books and through her activism
Anjum Katyal