‘Pather Panchali’: Why translating this Bengali classic in the 21st century holds all-new challenges

Rimi

· Nov 30, 2019 · 07:30 am

Nabaneeta Dev Sen (1938-2019): Two tributes to a Bengali writer who became a legend in her lifetime

Yashodhara Ray Chaudhuri Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay

· Nov 09, 2019 · 06:30 am

Adda: What the institution of the convivial community chat over ‘cha’ means for Bengali literature

Faisal Mahmud

· Oct 26, 2019 · 12:30 pm

Meet Narayan Debnath, the grandfather of Bengali comics for six decades

Devarsi Ghosh

· Sep 29, 2019 · 08:30 am

‘Repentance’: Read this short story by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay on his 125th birth anniversary

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

· Sep 12, 2019 · 05:30 pm

This mislabelled book of Bengali Sufi poetry tells the story of South Asians in Australia

Samia Khatun, The Conversation

· Aug 26, 2019 · 05:30 pm

How males were created: A Bengali feminist wrote this wicked fable nearly a hundred years ago

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

· Jul 18, 2019 · 07:30 am

Amartya Sen says ‘Jai Shri Ram’ isn’t associated with Bengali culture, is ‘used to beat people up’

Scroll Staff

· Jul 06, 2019 · 09:57 am

Why readers will almost never encounter anything like these two ‘anti-novels’ by Subimal Misra

Sayali Palekar

· Jun 15, 2019 · 12:30 pm

Adrish Bardhan (1932-2019) single-handedly put science-fiction in the Bengali reader’s imagination

Dip Ghosh Soham Guha

· Jun 02, 2019 · 12:30 pm

Watch: Here is a version of the ‘Game of Thrones’ theme song with a Bengali twist

Scroll Staff

· Apr 16, 2019 · 05:00 pm

Al Mahmud (1936-2019): Bangladesh’s controversial poet will be remembered as one of the greats

Rifat Munim

· Mar 03, 2019 · 10:30 am

A new book chronicles the radically iconoclastic movement in Bengali poetry in the 1960s

Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury

· Jan 08, 2019 · 08:30 am

The death of Bengali poet Nirendranath Chakrabarty (1924-2018) ends the era of a gentle colossus

Binayak Bandyopadhyay

· Jan 06, 2019 · 07:30 am

Wielding the bamboo: The media in Assam is marching for the cause of Assamese hyper-nationalism

Debarshi Das

· Nov 12, 2018 · 07:00 am

Interview: Can the famed ‘little magazine’ culture of Bengali literature thrive in the digital age?

Chandrima Pal

· Sep 15, 2018 · 12:30 pm

Ramapada Chowdhury (1922-2018) was one of the few Bengali writers who preferred quality to quantity

Shamik Ghosh

· Aug 05, 2018 · 07:00 am

‘India’: A short story by the Bengali writer Ramapada Chowdhury (1922-2018) who died at 95

Ramapada Chowdhury

· Jul 31, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Khasi-Sikh clash shows Shillong remains a communal tinderbox, driven by tribal angst

Patricia Mukhim

· Jun 05, 2018 · 09:00 am

In viral photo of two arms embracing a young woman in green, Kolkata has betrayed its liberal image

Swati Moitra

· May 06, 2018 · 10:30 am