This write-up describes my singular experience in translating Bengali short stories into English. However, all literary translations deal with certain common problems—of idiolect and dialect, or the ...

Bengali literature has had a rich history of prose, beginning more or less in the early 19th century under the colonial Raj. Calcutta's presence as the British Empire's capital in the colony shaped ...

One winter evening in Calcutta, when I was ten, we ran out of food in our third floor flat. It was a freak concatenation of circumstances, not poverty, that led to our predicament, but the fact ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. By now, it’s an old joke: Molière’s Bourgeois Gentilhomme discovers that he has been speaking something called ...

If you want to dive deeper into Bengali literature but language is a barrier, there are good translated works that come to the rescue. For instance, The Penguin Book of Bengali Short Stories, an ...

New Delhi, May 8 () When penning a book of Bengali short stories, it is only natural to begin with Rabindranath Tagore's 'Kabuliwallah,' the iconic tale of friendship between an Afghani dry-fruit ...

Independence Day is celebrated every year on August 15, marking India’s freedom from colonial rule. The Prime Minister hoists the national flag at the Red Fort in Delhi, and the entire country joins ...