bengali
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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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Nabaneeta Dev Sen (1938-2019): Two tributes to a Bengali writer who became a legend in her lifetime
Yashodhara Ray Chaudhuri Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay
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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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Meet Narayan Debnath, the grandfather of Bengali comics for six decades
Devarsi Ghosh
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‘Repentance’: Read this short story by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay on his 125th birth anniversary
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
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This mislabelled book of Bengali Sufi poetry tells the story of South Asians in Australia
Samia Khatun, The Conversation
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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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Amartya Sen says ‘Jai Shri Ram’ isn’t associated with Bengali culture, is ‘used to beat people up’
Scroll Staff
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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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Adrish Bardhan (1932-2019) single-handedly put science-fiction in the Bengali reader’s imagination
Dip Ghosh Soham Guha
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Watch: Here is a version of the ‘Game of Thrones’ theme song with a Bengali twist
Scroll Staff
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Al Mahmud (1936-2019): Bangladesh’s controversial poet will be remembered as one of the greats
Rifat Munim
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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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The death of Bengali poet Nirendranath Chakrabarty (1924-2018) ends the era of a gentle colossus
Binayak Bandyopadhyay
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Wielding the bamboo: The media in Assam is marching for the cause of Assamese hyper-nationalism
Debarshi Das
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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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Ramapada Chowdhury (1922-2018) was one of the few Bengali writers who preferred quality to quantity
Shamik Ghosh
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‘India’: A short story by the Bengali writer Ramapada Chowdhury (1922-2018) who died at 95
Ramapada Chowdhury
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Khasi-Sikh clash shows Shillong remains a communal tinderbox, driven by tribal angst
Patricia Mukhim