translation Bengali
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Folk tales for children: How the Myntdu, Myntang and Umiurem rivers in Meghalaya came to be
Sobhona Bhattacharjee Utsa Bose
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In her autobiography, Bangladeshi writer Noorjahan Bose remembers her mother’s skilful cooking
Noorjahan Bose Rebecca Whittington
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Translated fiction: Why does Ranjan look on uncomplainingly as his lover goes out with a colleague?
Sandipan Chattopadhyay Arunava Sinha
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Sunday book pick: ‘Farewell Song’, Rabindranath Tagore’s metafiction novel meant to silent critics
Sayari Debnath
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Translated fiction: After escaping a deadly bomb blast, Jibon returns to life having lost his memory
Manoranjan Byapari V Ramaswamy
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Fiction: Azad takes up a fight for salt farmers, decades after his grandfather marched with Gandhi
Anita Agnihotri Arunava Sinha
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Horror fiction: History repeats itself as Tunu turned slowly, but definitely, into someone else
Sakyajit Bhattacharya Rituparna Mukherjee
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Readers’ comments: Translation of ‘Poor Economics for Kids’ will have a new, improved version
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‘Talashnama’: Novel about religious fundamentalism is testament to the political significance of art
Veeksha Vagmita
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Translated fiction: Bengali couple Sudeep and Kamalika raise their children in 1960s’ America
Bani Basu Debali Mookerjea-Leonard
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Fiction: An Indian man and Afghani woman fall in love in 1920s’ Kabul, but a tragic fate awaits them
Syed Mujtaba Ali Nazes Afroz
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Fiction: A motley crew of strange characters come together in a magic-realist remapping of Calcutta
Nabarun Bhattacharya Rijula Das
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Sunday book pick: A marriage made in hell in Jibanananda Das’s 1970 novel ‘Malloban’
Sayari Debnath
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‘Rebel poet’ Kazi Nazrul Islam’s short stories can now be read in a newly translated volume
Kazi Nazrul Islam Saurav Dasthakur
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Fiction: A Muslim woman returns to her village to face disapproval after her Hindu husband’s death
Ismail Darbesh V Ramaswamy
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‘The Meat Market’: These stories take an ice-cold plunge into clammy depths of human behaviour
Saloni Sharma
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Translated short fiction: A 73-year-old Indian man goes to Bangladesh, his ‘land of birth’, to die
Mashiul Alam Shabnam Nadiya
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A novel in dialogue: Two strangers share a flat in the maddening city of Mumbai
Swati Guha V Ramaswamy
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‘Bangladesh: A Literary Journey’: An anthology that takes a stand against cultural elitism
Ikhtisad Ahmed
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‘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