Tag: Bengali women writers

Cold Teaβ€” Shaheen Akhtar

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 the heat and humidity, reeked...

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Sparrow’s Flesh – Pratibha Sarkar

Translated from the Bengali by Sukti Sarkar On days when we fussed and went to bed without eating, β€œyou’ll lose flesh worth a sparrow from that body of yours when you wake up tomorrow,” Ma would say.Girls should not do...

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Samaresh’s Life Force – Indrani Datta

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...

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  1. Can you please cite the original poem ? Where to find it in Bangla?

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