bengali
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Set in 18th century Bengal, this novel probes gender-class conflicts through a dancing girl’s murder
Shaheen Akhtar
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Myth and history come together with magic realism in this recently translated Bengali novel
Amar Mitra
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An iconic novel by the Bengali poet Jibanananda Das is reborn through an English translation
Jibanananda Das
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‘Aranyak’: A new translation brings back Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s iconic Bengali novel
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
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Watch: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on her project to have Bengali literature translated into English
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Abul Bashar’s stories, now translated into English, offer an intricate, intimate view of lived Islam
Abul Bashar
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In Anita Agnihotri’s ‘Mahanadi’, fiction is interrupted by facts to create a braided narrative
Isa Ayidh
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Remembering Bengali writer Sirsho Bandopadhyay (1967-2021) with his novel ‘Tiger Woman’
Sirsho Bandopadhyay
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Manoranjan Byapari’s autobiographical novel is a relentless record of ordeals, with no hope in sight
Adit Shankar
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‘Advertisements hide my face’: Nine poems by the Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh (1932-2021)
Shankha Ghosh
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‘The Great Bengali Poetry Underground’: An anthology that dives beneath the calm surface
Rajat Chaudhuri
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‘Hellfire’: From a bright morning full of possibilities to nightfall in a house shrouded in secrets
Harsimran Gill
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West Bengal says it will not implement National Education Policy for now
Scroll Staff
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For Bengali publishing, the pandemic has provided a much-needed push towards e-books
Sandip Roy
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How the lockdown (and then the cyclone) caught Bengali language publishing on the wrong foot
Tridib Chatterjee
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Debesh Roy (1936-2020): The Bengali novelist who spent his writing life in search of a local form
Shamik Ghosh
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Bengali actor, former MP Tapas Pal dies at 61
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Dear Amit Shah, a reading list for you as you learn Bengali (to win West Bengal elections)
Sajni Mukherji
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‘Kaagoj amra dekhabo na’: Bengali actors, filmmakers and writers speak out against CAA, NRC, NPR
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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