translation Bengali
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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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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
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‘The Phantom’s Howl’: A nifty little trove of emotionally complex, modern Bengali ghost stories
Projit Bihari Mukharji
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Satyaji Ray at 104: In this horror story for children, a ghost finds a friend after 32 lonely years
Satyajit Ray Gopa Majumdar
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‘Hidden Treasure’: A novel that leaves the reader famished by what it reveals and for what it hides
Sakshi Nadkarni
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Classic horror stories from Bengal: Neela and her father see a ghost in the dead of the night
Manik Bandyopadhyay Arundhati Nath
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‘Beggar’s Bedlam’: Nabarun Bhattacharya’s defiant, magic realist novel about class clashes in Bengal
Saloni Sharma
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Fiction: A mysterious man kindles Chintamoni’s dormant desires, bringing her love and money
Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay Ipsa S
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‘Not such a bad thing’: Why did feminist Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain say this about the burka?
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain Ben Baer
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Why tales about Bonbibi, guardian spirit of Sunderbans, are so important to the region’s literature
Tony K Stewart
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Translated Hindi poetry: An excerpt from ‘Khamoshi Ka Arth Parajay Nahin Hota’
Amitabh Chakraborty