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New additions:
 A Musical Rainbow&mdash Chapter 9 of Buddhadeva Bose's classic memoir Sab Peyechhir Deshe ('The land where I found it all'), being serialized in Parabaas. Translated by Nandini Gupta. : 'An elderly professor told us that in the thirty years he had been in Santiniketan , he had seen Rabindranath really angry only on two occasions. Once it was when he had been served food on a dirty dish; and another time, when he suddenly came upon an...'
 That little drop of dew! Noted Hindi author, Shivani's as yet uncollected memoir on Satyajit Ray, translated from the original Hindi by Ira Pande. "...., then Manik-da reluctantly got up and called in his deep baritone, ‘Harihar, O Harihar…’ and I think even the forest stopped to hear him."
 The Indigo Terror, Satyajit Ray's short story Neel Atanka has been translated from the original Bangla by Barnali Saha. "Eric had run away. Percey and Tony had already left. I guess my lust for money exceeds their's and that’s why, despite frequent malaria attacks, I just could not give up my desire for indigo. No—not just that. Lying to one's diary is a sacrilege..."
 In memoriam: Meenakshi Mukherjee, by Sanjukta Das. "Today when Indian literature in English translation and Indian-English literature are part of English Literature ... the passing away of Prof Meenakshi Mukherjee, teacher, scholar and dynamic organizer who pioneered this shift, requires a looking back....."
 In memoriam: Carol Salomon, by Sudipto Chatterjee. "The first time I met Carol Salomon was in an apartment in New York City's Greenwich Village, when I was still a student at New York University....."
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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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
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)
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.
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..
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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