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Short stories


Boligarto
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Begum Rokeya
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(বলিগর্ত)
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Tr: Tapati Gupta
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Hunger
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Kabita Singha
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(খিদে)
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Tr: Bashabi Fraser
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Bolai
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Rabindranath Tagore
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(বলাই)
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Tr: Prasenjit Gupta
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The Judge
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Rabindranath Tagore
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(বিচারক)
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Tr: Saurav Bhattacharya
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Sentence
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Rabindranath Tagore
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((শাস্তি))
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Tr: Carolyn Brown
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Matchbox
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Ashapurna Debi
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(দেশলাই-বাক্স)
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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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The deceiver
Abhijit Sen
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(প্রতারক)
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Tr: Chhanda Chattopadhyay Bewtra
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Diagram of a man
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Abhijit Sen
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(মানুষের রেখাচিত্র)
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Tr: Chhanda Chattopadhyay Bewtra
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The Surrogate Wife
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Abhijit Sen
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(বদলি জোয়ানের বিবি)
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Tr: Sutapa Chaudhuri
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The Witch
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Abhijit Sen
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(ডাইন)
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Tr: Sutapa Chaudhuri
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Lalu (1)
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Saratchandra Chattopadhyay
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(লালু (১))
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Tr: Somdatta Mandal
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Lalu (2)
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Saratchandra Chattopadhyay
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(লালু (২))
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Tr: Somdatta Mandal
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Lalu (3)
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Saratchandra Chattopadhyay
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(লালু (৩))
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Tr: Somdatta Mandal
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The Bait
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Narayan Gangopadhyay
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(টোপ)
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Tr: Indrani Chakraborty
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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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The holiday trip
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
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(একটি ভ্রমণকাহিনী)
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Tr: Chhanda Chattopadhyay Bewtra
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Ignored
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
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(তুচ্ছ)
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Tr: Chhanda Chattopadhyay Bewtra
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The Climbing Spinach Trellis
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
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(পুঁই মাচা)
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Tr: Barnali Saha
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The Atheist
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
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(নাস্তিক)
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Tr: Chhanda Chattopadhyay Bewtra
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Moni Doctor
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
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(মণি ডাক্তার)
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Tr: Saurav Bhattacharya
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Einstein and Indubala
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
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(আইনস্টাইন ও ইন্দুবালা)
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Tr: Palash Baran Pal
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Nehru and God
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
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(জওহরলাল ও গড্)
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Tr: Palash Baran Pal
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The Suitcase Switch
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
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(বাক্স-বদল)
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Tr: Shoili Pal
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The Giver's Paradise
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
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(দাতার স্বর্গ)
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Tr: Shoili Pal
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The dancer
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Anjan Bandyopadhyay
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(নর্তক)
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Tr: Paulami Sengupta
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Oh Dear, Dad!
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Nabaneeta Dev Sen
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(বাপ রে বাপ!)
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Tr: Chhanda Chattopadhyay Bewtra
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That Terrible Midnight
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Nabaneeta Dev Sen
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(মধ্যরাতের ভয়ঙ্কর)
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Tr: Chhanda Chattopadhyay Bewtra
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Mr. Young's Car
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Nabaneeta Dev Sen
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(ইয়াং সায়েবের গাড়ি)
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Tr: Chhanda Chattopadhyay Bewtra
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Chats
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Pracheta Gupta
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(চ্যাট্স)
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Tr: Chhanda Chattopadhyay Bewtra
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That Pink Shirt
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Pracheta Gupta
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(গোলাপী জামা)
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Tr: Chhanda Chattopadhyay Bewtra
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Essays
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)
Who is Abani, at whose house, and why is he even there?
Samir Sengupta
(translated from original Bangla by Bhaswati Ghosh)
Remembering Lila Ray
How a daughter of Texas pioneers found freedom in Santiniketan
Anandarup Ray
A Few Sentences on Translating Tagore’s “Shasti”
(A Translator’s Punishment)
Carolyn Brown
Twelve Novels by Rabindranath Tagore
(রবীন্দ্রনাথের বারোটি উপন্যাস)
Sunil Gangopadhyay
(translated from original Bangla by Chhanda Chattopadhyay Bewtra)
Atmavilap or Lament of Myself
Clinton B. Seely
(essay on possible connections between Michael Madhusudan Datta and American literature)
Book Excerpts
The Book of Yudhisthir
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.
Looking for an Address
Tr. Chhanda Chattopadhyay Bewtra
Extracts from the translation of Nabaneeta Dev Sen's novel Thikana (ঠিকানা)
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
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, translation of Taslima Nasrin's fiction Phorashi Premik.
A Chronicle of Discrimination
Fatima Husain
Review of My Girlhood- An Autobiography, translation of Taslima Nasrin's Amar Meyebela.
A Tremendous Comet: Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Ketaki Kushari Dyson
Review of Lured by Hope : A Biography of Michael Madhusudan Dutt, translation of Ghulam Murshid's Ashar Chholone Bhuli.
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 Mukhopadhyay’s 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: Hootum’s 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.
Rumbling Empires and Men Speaking to Storms
Ketaki Kushari Dyson
Review of Michael Collins' Empire, Nationalism and the Postcolonial World: Rabindranath Tagore’s writings on history, politics and society.
A Casa e O Mundo: Telo de Mascarenhas’s Translation of Ghare Baire
Sovon Sanyal
Talking Between Disciplines: Could We Please Have A Better Conversation?
Ketaki Kushari Dyson
Review of Sabyasachi Bhattacharya's Rabindranath Tagore: An Interpretation.
Tagore the Pilgrim, Poet, and Philosopher--a Book Review
Narasingha P. Sil
Review of Tagore at Home in the World, ed. by Sanjukta Dasgupta and Chinmoy Guha.
Tagore’s Sense of Wonder in Indonesia:
Rereading his Letters from a Traveller to Java
Amiya Dev
Her Stories: 20th Century Bengali Women Writers—A Book Review
Pradipta Chatterji
Review of a selection of short stories by various authors translated by Sanjukta Dasgupta.
Hindu Widow Marriage by Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar: A Book Review
Protima Pandey
Review of Hindu Widow Marriage: An Epochal Work on Social Reform from Colonial India; by Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar; A complete translation, with an introduction and critical notes by Brian A. Hatcher.
In Praise of Annada, (Annadamangal) Vol. 1 by Bharatchandra Ray Gunakar: A Book Review
Chhanda Chattopadhyay Bewtra
Review of Annadamangal (Vol.1) Translated by France Bhattacharya; Murty Classical Library of India; Published by Harvard University Press
Chandrabati's Ramayan: A Book Review
Nandini Gupta
Review of Chandrabati's Ramayan, Translated by Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Published by Zubaan Books, India
Other articles
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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