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New additions:
Three short stories and a memoir by four different authors:
 Only ten rupees (মাত্র দশটি টাকা)—short story by "Bonophul", translated into English by Nita Das: "Awkwardly, Bidhubabu said, “Let it be, let it be; it does not matter. You can give it to me whenever you have it on hand. What is the rush?”
Feeling even more awkward, Nikhilbabu said..."
 The coldroom (হিমঘর)— short story by Abhijit Sen, translated by Chhanda Chattopadhyay Bewtra : "Begum silently searched through the car window for her lost childhood. The grey dusk was heavy with an indifferent loneliness, which was threatening to overcome the rest of the night. It was painful..."
 A coveted life (সাধপূরণ)— short story by Mimi Radhakrishnan, translated into English by Paulami Sengupta: "She had said this to that restless and lively Dororthy a number of times. Dororthy would smile and laugh and ask for an exchange of roles. She suggested that they could go to the church and pray for it—in pure hearts..."
 Shakti's singing (শক্তির গান গাওয়া)—Samir Sengupta's memoir of famous Bengali poet Shakti Chattopadhyay. Translated from Bengali by Bhaswati Ghosh. This includes audio recordings of four songs. "Late one evening during the searing summer of 1961-62, sitting on the broken steps of Ganga next to the Nimtala crematorium, Shakti had sung this song—bare chested, stubble on his face, a rag-wrapped marijuana chillum in one hand, and the other hand splayed, like a beggar king, towards the darkening river..."
Recent additions:
Two poems translated from the original Bengali by Bhismadev Chakrabarti:
 Exile— (নির্বাসন) by Alokeranjan Dasgupta, and
 Inflammable— (দাহ্য) by Joy Goswami.
In the Archive
Poetry Short Stories
Essays/Memoir Book Excerpts
Reviews Other
Poetry
Buddhadeva Bose
Sudhindranath Dutta
Sunil Gangopadhyay
Sankha Ghosh
Sunil Kumar Nandi
Rabindranath Tagore
Joy Goswami
Sukumar Ray
Alokeranjan Dasgupta
Mohammad Rafiq
Khaled Hossain
Lalon Fakir
Jibanananda Das
Short stories
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Boligarto
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Begum Rokeya
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(Boligarto)
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Tr: Tapati Gupta
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Hunger
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Kabita Singha
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(Khide)
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Tr: Bashabi Fraser
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Bolai
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Rabindranath Tagore
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(Bolai)
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Tr: Prasenjit Gupta
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The Judge
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Rabindranath Tagore
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(Bicharok)
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Tr: Saurav Bhattacharya
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Matchbox
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Ashapurna Debi
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(Deshlai-Baksho)
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Tr: Prasenjit Gupta
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Method
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Abhijit Sen
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(Paddhati)
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Tr: Sahana Ghosh
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The coldroom
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Abhijit Sen
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(হিমঘর)
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Tr: Chhanda Chattopadhyay Bewtra
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Lalu (1)
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Saratchandra Chattopadhyay
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(Lalu)
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Tr: Somdatta Mandal
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Lalu (2)
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Saratchandra Chattopadhyay
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(Lalu)
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Tr: Somdatta Mandal
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Lalu (3)
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Saratchandra Chattopadhyay
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(Lalu)
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Tr: Somdatta Mandal
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The Bait
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Narayan Gangopadhyay
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(Tope)
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Tr: Indrani Chakraborty
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Nishikanta in the Rain
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Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay
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(BrishTite Nishikanto)
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Tr: Nilanjan Bhattacharya
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Look at me
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Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay
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(Amake dekhun)
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Tr: Nilanjan Bhattacharya
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Salty
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Tilottama Majumdar
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(লোনা)
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Tr: Chhanda Bewtra
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Imperfect
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Tilottama Majumdar
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(অসম্পূর্ণা)
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Tr: Chhanda Bewtra
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Essays/Memoirs
Bengali Songs to the Goddess Kali
Sagaree Sengupta
An essay containing translations of many songs.
On Sudhidranath Datta
Buddhadeva Bose
Sudhindranath Dutta: The Person I Knew
Damayanti Basu Singh
Sukumar Ray: Master of Science and Nonsense
Zinia Mitra
Bengali Gastronomy
Buddhadeva Bose
Translation as Recognition
Indira Chowdhury
Bathroom
Buddhadeva Bose (Tr. by Hanne Ruth-Thompson)
Tiger-Savant Long-Tail (Byaghracharya Brihallangul)
Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay (Tr. by Sudeshna Kar Barua)
Translation: the magical bridge between cultures
Ketaki Kushari Dyson
Temporality in the Poetry of Jibanananda Das
Faizul Latif Chowdhury
In memoriam: Meenakshi Mukherjee
Sanjukta Das
In memoriam: Carol Salomon
Sudipto Chatterjee
That little drop of dew!
Shivani (Tr. from original Hindi by Ira Pande)
Two Women Writers of the Bengali Diaspora:
Ketaki Kushari Dyson and Dilara Hashem
Sumana Das Sur
Lila Majumdar: A Granddaughter Remembers
Anu Kumar interviews Srilata Banerjee
Buro Angla and Nils: A tale of transmigration of stories
Chhanda Chakraborti
At Ramkinkar's house with Shakti
Samir Sengupta
(translated from original Bangla by Bhaswati Ghosh)
Shakti's singing
Samir Sengupta
(translated from original Bangla by Bhaswati Ghosh)
Books/Book Excerpts
The Book of Yudhisthir
Tr. Sujit Mukherjee
A translation of Buddhadeva Bose's Mahabharater Katha.
The Land Where I Found It All
Tr. Nandini Gupta
A translation of Buddhadeva Bose's memoir of his visit to Rabindranath and Santiniketan, Sab Peyechhir Deshe.
Noton Noton Pairaguli
Tr. Ketaki Kushari Dyson
An extract from the "Bengali diasporic" novel, translated by the author herself.
The First Promise
Tr. Indira Chowdhury
Extracts from the translation of Ashapurna Debi's famous Bengali novel Pratham Pratisruti.
The Scent of Sunlight
Tr. Clinton B. Seely
Collection of 34 well-known poems by Jibanananda Das, translated with an Introduction by Clinton Seely.
Reviews
Selected Short Stories of Rabindranath Tagore
Rajat Chanda
Kingdoms, Cats, and Crypts: Back to the Classics
Susan Chacko
A review of three recent titles on children's literature.
Outcastes and Oppression
Susan Chacko
A review of two collections of short stories.
On the Wings of Hummingbirds, Rabindranath Tagore's Little Poems: An
Invitation to a Review-cum-Workshop
Ketaki Kushari Dyson
Divergent Rays
Susan Chacko
Review of two translations of Satyajit Ray's work.
How hard should we try? - Questions of detail in literary translation
Ketaki Kushari Dyson
A workshop style review of No Symbol, No Prayer by Vijaya Mukhopadhyay, a book of poems translated from the original Bengali by Carolyne Wright, Paramita Banerjee, and Sunil B. Ray.
From the Hooghly to the Seine
Susan Chacko
Review of French Lover, Taslima Nasrin's fiction Phorashi Premik's translation by Sreejata Guha.
A Chronicle of Discrimination
Fatima Husain
Review of My Girlhood, Taslima Nasrin's autobiography Amar Meyebela, translated from original Bengali by Gopa Majumdar.
A Tremendous Comet: Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Ketaki Kushari Dyson
Review of Lured by Hope : A Biography of Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Ghulam Murshid's biography of Michael, Ashar Chholone Bhuli, translated from original Bengali by Gopa Majumdar.
Selected Poems of Buddhadeva Bose
Sibnarayan Ray
Review of the translation (with an introduction) by Ketaki Kushari Dyson.
Yogayog (Nexus) by Rabindranath Tagore
Meenakshi Mukherjee
Review of the translation (with notes) by Hiten Bhaya.
Twice-Told Tales
Susan Chacko
Review of Upendrakishore Rauchaudhuri's stories in three books of translations (by William Radice, Madhuchchanda Karlekar, and Swagata Deb).
Reflections on Clinton B. Seely's Translation of Meghanad-Badh Kabya.
William Radice
Written for the 18th. European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Lund, Sweden, 6-9 July, 2004.
Anandamath, or The Sacred Brotherhood: A Book Review
Ketaki Kushari Dyson
Review of a recent translation by Julius J. Lipner of Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay's famous novel.
To Attain You, Oh Freedom - The Best Poems of Shamsur Rahman
Shobha Rao
Review of a recent translation by Shankar Sen.
Let him speak in his own voice: Three books [on/by Rabindranth] by Uma Das Gupta
Ana Jelnikar
Reviews of (a) A difficult friendship: Letters of Edward P. Thompson and Rabindranath Tagore, 1913-1940, (b) Rabindranath Tagore: A Biography, and (c) Rabindranath Tagore: my life in my words.
Naxalism -- Views from the other side
Sumanta Banerjee
Review of THE NAXALITES: THROUGH THE EYES OF THE POLICE. Select notifications from the Calcutta Police Gazette. 1967-1975., Edited by Ashoke Kumar Mukhopadhyay
Straight from the Heart: Celebrating Lalon Phokir
Prachi Deshpande
Review of Man of the Heart, a play written and performed by Sudipto Chatterjee and directed by Suman Mukherjee.
Fantasy, Fiction, Fact: Magic and Realism in Sirshendu Mukhopadhyays The Ghost of Gosain Bagan
Sanjukta Dasgupta
Review of the classic Bengali children's novel Gonsaibaganer Bhut.
A Review: Maitreyi Devi's Tagore by Fireside
Anandamayee Majumdar
Review of Maitreyi Devi's Mungpute Rabindranath, translated as Tagore by Fireside..
The Owl's Gaze: Everyday life in early Calcutta
Anu Kumar
Review of Kaliprasanna Sinha's The Observant Owl Hootums Vignettes of Nineteenth-century Calcutta, translated from Hootum Pnyachar Naksha..
Beloved story teller of magic worlds: Three novellas of Lila Majumdar
Anu Kumar
Review of Lila Majumdar's The Yellow Bird, and The Burmese Box: Two Novellas.
'Once when I was a woman!'
Anu Kumar
Review of Saratchandra Chattopadhyay's The Final Question.
Other
A Biographical Sketch of Buddhadeva Bose
Ketaki Kushari Dyson
The Hermit and the Courtesan (Drama)
Buddhadeva Bose
Kolkata's Elektra—A Play in Three Acts by Buddhadeva Bose
Translated from the Bengali by Sreejata Guha
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