This translation brings Bengali writer Krishnagopal Mallick’s queer short stories to the world

Krishnagopal Mallick Niladri R Chatterjee

· May 18, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Mahasweta Devi’s thriller exposes the moral hypocrisy of the affluent when a pregnant maid dies

Mahasweta Devi

· Apr 24, 2023 · 03:30 pm

This new anthology features Bengali writers who wrote about man-made and supernatural spectres

Dinesh Chandra Sen

· Mar 01, 2023 · 05:30 pm

‘Hawa Hawa’: In Nabarun Bhattacharya’s stories, Calcutta is a festering wound that refuses to heal

Sayari Debnath

· Jan 28, 2023 · 12:30 pm

Part two of Manoranjan Byapari’s ‘Runaway Boy’: Jibon, now in his twenties, fights to survive hunger

Manoranjan Byapari

· Jan 27, 2023 · 05:30 pm

Set in 18th century Bengal, this novel probes gender-class conflicts through a dancing girl’s murder

Shaheen Akhtar

· Sep 28, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Myth and history come together with magic realism in this recently translated Bengali novel

Amar Mitra

· Jul 04, 2022 · 05:30 pm

An iconic novel by the Bengali poet Jibanananda Das is reborn through an English translation

Jibanananda Das

· Apr 20, 2022 · 05:30 pm

‘Aranyak’: A new translation brings back Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s iconic Bengali novel

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

· Apr 12, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Watch: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak on her project to have Bengali literature translated into English

Scroll Staff

· Apr 11, 2022 · 04:12 pm

Shahidul Zahir’s fiction represents one of the most unique literary voices of Bangladesh

Shahidul Zahir

· Jan 21, 2022 · 05:30 pm

Abul Bashar’s stories, now translated into English, offer an intricate, intimate view of lived Islam

Abul Bashar

· Sep 17, 2021 · 05:30 pm

In Anita Agnihotri’s ‘Mahanadi’, fiction is interrupted by facts to create a braided narrative

Isa Ayidh

· Sep 04, 2021 · 12:30 pm

‘Advertisements hide my face’: Nine poems by the Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh (1932-2021)

Shankha Ghosh

· Apr 21, 2021 · 05:30 pm

‘Hellfire’: From a bright morning full of possibilities to nightfall in a house shrouded in secrets

Harsimran Gill

· Dec 05, 2020 · 12:30 pm

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

Rimi

· Nov 30, 2019 · 07:30 am

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

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

· Sep 12, 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

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

Sayali Palekar

· Jun 15, 2019 · 12:30 pm