bengali
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Between two World Wars, Syed Mujtaba Ali set out on a ship from India to Europe. This is his story
Syed Mujtaba Ali Nazes Afroz
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‘I write life on paper’: Taslima Nasrin’s poetry has been translated into English for the first time
Taslima Nasrin Jesse Waters
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‘Translating women writers enables their cultural positions to be represented’: Alo Shome
Veeksha Vagmita
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‘Arise out of the lock’: 50 Bangladeshi women poets from several generations in translation
Sadaf Saaz Nabina Das, Sufia Kamal, Anjana Saha, Leesa Gazi, Shanta Maria, Asma Beethe
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‘Didi’: A 1915 novel about widowhood and polygamy deftly portrays the tragedies of womanhood
Veeksha Vagmita
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Bengal Cabinet approves proposal to make Bengali 2nd mandatory language in English medium schools
Scroll Staff
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Translated fiction: A Bangladeshi writer explores body horror genre in a new book of short stories
Mojaffor Hossain Mohammad Shafiqul Islam
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Why the Election Commission’s Assam delimitation proposal is being seen as communal
Rokibuz Zaman
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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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Science fiction: Can a small band of rebels free the world from the clutches of time-bound terror?
Dipen Bhattacharya Chirayata Chakrabarty
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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