A landmark anthology, staking a new claim for Bengali literature in EnglishA Penguin ClassicThe p...

Bangladesh, 1971: the war of independence from Pakistan has torn through peaceful villages and tu...

Dhaka is the world's tenth largest city with a population of more than 18 million people. We will...

Bengali writer Riza Rahman is the author of more than fifty novels, as well as countless short st...

Bangladesh in 1971 showed vividly, and terribly, the deadly effects of war. Piles of corpses, tor...

A woman arrives alone in Kolkata, taking refuge in a deserted apartment while she waits to underg...

First published in Bengali as Moner mato meye: Kolkata [India]: Deb Sahitya Kutir, 1951.

Ruhiton Kurmi has been in jail for seven years. Once a notorious Naxalite--a militant leftist rev...

An unforgettable story of cricket and friendship from a master of sports fiction.Jibon and Ananto...

In the early 1960s, the Hungry Generation revitalized Bengali poetry in Calcutta, liberating it f...

Writing Places

The seventh-most spoken language in the world, Bengali is home to some of the most distinctive po...

Bhaskar Chakrabarti's poetry is synonymous with the romantic melancholia inherent to Calcutta. Hi...

DescriptionOn a hot afternoon, a boy sitting in his garden suddenly finds himself transported int...

A Poem a Day:

In the West Bengal election of 2021, the longest state election in the history of India, Mamata B...

A strong and courageous novel that deftly tackles psychosis.

A tense sociopolitical novel exploring power, violence, and morality in 1970s India.

A landmark new anthology of Bengali literature in English, including many previously untranslated...

The Greatest Indian Stories Ever Told is a selection of some of the finest literary short fiction...

Jaanbaz was an itinerant door-to-door salesman from Afghanistan, one of many from that country wh...

My name is Suranjan. You don't recognize me? You wrote a novel about me. It was called Lajja.' On...

'First published in Bengali as Bhalo na basar galpo by Sristisukj Prakashan, Bagan, Howrah, India...

A masterpiece of astonishing inventiveness, Carnival takes in its sweep the interconnectedness of...

Freedom and revolution, passion and hatred, love and death, memories and forgetting collide in th...

Easily one of the most towering figures of Bengali literature of the twentieth century, Buddhadev...

A young student in pre-Independence Dacca, Ranajit Dutta is relatively untouched by the patriotic...

A powerful novel about an artist mother and her child. I ran away from home and from the shackles...

Sa'adat Hasan Manto is the most widely read and controversial essayist, satirist, playwright and ...