Rituparna Mukherjee

Rituparna Mukherjee

Chief Editor

Rituparna Mukherjee teaches English and Communication Studies at Jogamaya Devi College, Kolkata. She is a published poet, short fiction writer and enjoys writing flash fiction. A multilingual translator, translating Bengali and Hindi fiction and poetry into English, her work has been published in many international journals of repute.

She is the chief editor at The Antonym Magazine. Her first complete work in translation, The One-Legged, translated from Sakyajit Bhattacharya’s Ekanorey has been published by Antonym Collection publishing in January 2024.

Email: [email protected]
Instagram: @ritumukherjee10

Some of her work

An Assamese story by Manoj Kumar Goswami

Friendless— Manoj Kumar Goswami

November 12, 2022Ankita Bose(0)
Translated from the Assamese by Harsita Hiya    On the way home from the office that evening, Bisnu Dutta came across an inland letter card. He was just about to enter his by-lane. His pace sloth-like, and…...
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A Bengali story about humor by Swapnamay Chakraborty

Turturi’s Egg— Swapnamoy Chakraborty

November 5, 2022Ankita Bose(0)
Translated from the Bengali by Rituparna Mukherjee    Birat Biswas, a renowned scientist returned home from his lecture in Babylon on monkeys to find his wife, Bijaya, sitting quietly with a glum face. Birat Biswas called…...
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reedom-A Hindi Story by Mamta Kalia

Freedom— Mamta Kalia

September 28, 2022Biswadip Chakraborthy(0)
Translated from the Hindi by Rituparna Mukherjee  My grandmother doted on me. I crossed the room and the courtyard, and hung from her shoulders, “Daadi, I am bored, shall I go out and play?” Daadi took…...
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Cold Tea— Shaheen Akhtar

July 24, 2022Biswadip Chakraborthy(0)
Translated from the Bengali by Rituparna Mukherjee The bus lurched to a halt under the darkness of the aerial roots of the banyan tree. The inside of the bus, packed full of passengers, choking in…...
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Samaresh’s Life Force – Indrani Datta

June 26, 2022Nirajana Mukhopadhyay(2)
Translated from the Bengali by Rituparna Mukherjee On a wintry Saturday afternoon at the beginning of 2013, in the month of January-February, commonly called Magh, Samaresh found himself acutely worried. The place where the events…...
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Loner – Rituparna Mukherjee

April 30, 2022Nirajana Mukhopadhyay(0)
Loner!He hurls the word across the room at you, his eyes see it travel across the room, expecting it to hit your ears, its sound wounding you, its contours scratching the surface of your skin…...
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