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New additions:
 Two short stories by Sirshendu Mukhopadhyay, translated from Bangla by Nilanjan Bhattacharya:
Nishikanta in the rain -- "It had been raining like crazy for the past several days. Raindrops were erupting out of the sky like thousands of millions of bubbles – bubbles that ...", and
Look at me---"Please look at me, just once. Here I am, standing squashed in a corner. I got on the bus a little while ago, barely finding myself a toehold -–.."
Recent additions:
Five songs/poems of Lalon Phokir (aka Lalon Fakir, Lalan Shah) from the original Bangla:
 translated by Carol Salomon:
I have not seen her even once--
Who wants to go to the other shore?
 translated by Sudipto Chatterjee:
His play knows no end…
Everyone wonders, "What's Lalon faith?"
The unknown Bird in the cage...
Listen to three songs of Lalon, sung by Sudipto Chatterjee:
Ch(n)aader gaaye ch(n)aad legechhe
Kaayaadhaari hoye kyano,
B(n)edhechhe emono ghar..
 Straight from the Heart: Celebrating Lalon Phokir
Prachi Deshpande reviews Man of the Heart, a drama in English and Bangla, written and performed by Sudipto Chatterjee, and directed by Suman Mukherjee.
 Dawn of the Waning Moon, Jharna Rahman's short story Krishnapokkher usha translated into English by Shabnam Nadiya."There is no way to guess that inside this horrible mound of burnt slag there exists a framework of bones. A female carcass! The newspaper headline uses direct language. A face implanted within that terrible image. A slice of dawn. ..."
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
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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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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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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In Retrospect
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Selina Hossain
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(Phirey Dekha)
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Tr: Hafiza Nilofar Khan
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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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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
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.
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.
Other articles
A Biographical Sketch of Buddhadeva Bose
Ketaki Kushari Dyson
The Hermit and the Courtesan (Drama)
Buddhadeva Bose
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