bengali
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Translated fiction: Mohini, a transwoman, prepares for her daughter Disha’s wedding
Nasima Anis Sarban Bandopadhyay
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Sunday book pick: The price of belonging in Bani Basu’s immigrant novel ‘The Continents Between’
Sayari Debnath
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Translated fiction: During Bengal’s tebhaga struggle, sharecroppers lose whatever little they had
Showkat Ali V Ramaswamy Mohiuddin Jahangir
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‘A companion in quiet corners of life’: My grandmother’s hidden rebellion in reading Taslima Nasrin
Reeti Roy
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‘Rising From the Dust’: Luminous short stories about Dalit lives on both sides of the Bengal border
Neeman Sobhan
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Badruddin Umar (1931-2025): Bangladesh’s unread revolutionary
Ankush Pal
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Translated fiction: ‘Snake maidens’ visit villages during winter to sell their wares and make money
Prafulla Kumar Roy Aruna Chakravarti
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‘The Last Bench’ by Adhir Biswas: The serious repercussions of caste discrimination in classrooms
Anjali Chauhan
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From the travelogue: In 1890, Jaladhar Sen embarked on an adventure across the sacred Himalayas
Jaladhar Sen Somdatta Mandal
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For children: How the delicate made-in-India muslin fabric inspired the freedom movement
Dev Kumar Jhanjh Debarati Bagchi
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Crime fiction: The line between culinary artistry and sinister manipulation blurs at this restaurant
Mohammad Nazim Uddin V Ramaswamy
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Fiction: Nobo’s life takes an unexpected turn when he finds an infant abandoned at the station
Manoranjan Byapari Anchita Ghatak
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Translated dystopian fiction: A young woman registers her ancestry as she enters adulthood
Soham Guha Sarban Bandyopadhyay
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First-Class Railway Curry, Quick Bengali Murgir Korma: Two monsoon recipes by chef Asma Khan
Asma Khan
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Fiction: In a remote village in Bengal, the tribal Sahish community lives in neglect with its pigs
Saikat Rakshit Ahana Bhattacharjee
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Translated fiction: An anthology of short stories by Bengali Muslim writers
Abdul Jabbar Sarmistha Dutta Gupta Shambhobi Ghosh
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Fiction: Bibi carries the weight of untold stories and quiet resistance as she meets various men
Afsar Ahmed Kathakali Jana
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Sunday book pick: Ghost stories by Satyajit Ray in ‘Ghosts, Supernatural and Tales of the Uncanny’
Sayari Debnath
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‘Ideas, Thoughts and Memories’: A rich anthology of literary essays by Bengal’s foremost writers
Debjani Sengupta
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Rabindranath Tagore at 164: Translator Sharmistha Mohanty on the writer’s profound empathy for women
Sharmistha Mohanty