‘The spirit of a writer must be open as the sky’: Kazi Nazrul Islam on how to write great literature

Kazi Nazrul Islam Radha Chakravarty

· Apr 05, 2024 · 08:30 am

Abanindranath Tagore’s stories for children about the Sun Dynasty of Mewar get new English versions

Abanindranath Tagore Sandipan Deb

· Mar 21, 2024 · 01:30 pm

Travelogue: In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Durgacharan Rakshit travelled to most parts of India

Durgacharan Rakshit Sarbani Putatunda

· Mar 15, 2024 · 08:30 am

In translation: Subimal Misra’s ‘anti-stories’ about the Gulf War and other man-made atrocities

Subimal Misra V Ramaswamy

· Mar 14, 2024 · 05:30 pm

Translated fiction: Bengali master Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s short stories about the paranormal

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay Prasun Roy

· Feb 21, 2024 · 05:30 pm

For children: Short stories written (and illustrated) by Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury in translation

Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury Lopamudra Maitra

· Dec 12, 2023 · 01:30 pm

Magic realism: The legend of German alchemist Johann Bottger in 19th-century Bengali literature

Trailokyanath Mukhopadhyay Sucheta Dasgupta

· Nov 16, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Memoir: An Indian woman faces the Taliban’s horrors after moving to Afghanistan with her husband

Sushmita Bandyopadhyay Arunava Sinha

· Nov 15, 2023 · 08:30 am

‘There is a ban even on breathing’: Leftist poet Birendra Chattopadhyay on the horrors of war

Birendra Chattopadhyay Sayandeb Chowdhury

· Nov 09, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Fiction: A young poet shares all his secrets with a tree. Soon his life will be transformed by love

Srijato Mahargya Chakraborty

· Nov 06, 2023 · 05:30 pm

‘The Nemesis’: In a caste-sick society, anger is the only choice for Manoranjan Byapari’s alter ego

Sayari Debnath

· Oct 08, 2023 · 12:30 pm

A new book brings 14 short stories of Bengali women authors from Bangladesh and India in translation

Tilottama Majumdar Subarna Banerjee

· Sep 25, 2023 · 05:30 pm

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

· Sep 20, 2023 · 08:30 am

‘I write life on paper’: Taslima Nasrin’s poetry has been translated into English for the first time

Taslima Nasrin Jesse Waters

· Sep 19, 2023 · 05:30 pm

‘Translating women writers enables their cultural positions to be represented’: Alo Shome

Veeksha Vagmita

· Sep 09, 2023 · 07:30 am

‘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

· Aug 28, 2023 · 05:30 pm

‘Didi’: A 1915 novel about widowhood and polygamy deftly portrays the tragedies of womanhood

Veeksha Vagmita

· Aug 20, 2023 · 01:30 pm

Translated fiction: A Bangladeshi writer explores body horror genre in a new book of short stories

Mojaffor Hossain Mohammad Shafiqul Islam

· Jun 27, 2023 · 05:30 pm

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

· Jun 13, 2023 · 01:30 pm

Science fiction: Can a small band of rebels free the world from the clutches of time-bound terror?

Dipen Bhattacharya Chirayata Chakrabarty

· Jun 09, 2023 · 01:30 pm