Confession & Other Poems— Saswati Sanyal
TRANSLATED FROM THE BENGALI BY OWSHNIK GHOSH Confession I was in search of it.It’s...
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Tag: Women writers of Bengali literature
Stalks Of Lotus— Indrani Datta
Translated from the Bengali by Ketaki Datta I Since the last monsoon, the door was giving...
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The Edges Of Love— Shaheen Akhtar
Translated from the Bengali by Shamita Das Dasgupta 1. All this happened several years...
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Feminine Pen: Translating Bengali Women Writers
Modern Bengali Literature, since its early days, has been enriched by the works of its myriad...
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A Different Kind— Nasreen Jahaan
Translated from the Bengali by Bishnupriya Chowdhuri My daughter’s face on the other side...
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A Poor Conductor— Indrani Datta
Translated from the Bengali by Kathakali Jana 1. He picked it up from the street. The painting...
Read MoreCold Tea— 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...
Read MoreSparrow’s Flesh – Pratibha Sarkar
Translated from the Bengali by Sukti Sarkar On days when we fussed and went to bed without eating, “you’ll lose flesh worth a sparrow from that body of yours when you wake up tomorrow,” Ma would say.Girls should not do...
Read MoreSamaresh’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...
Read More1st January – Sayantani Bhattacharya
Translated from the Bengali by Chirayata Chakraborty Combing her hair with her fingers, Bnuchiburi picked out a rather buxom louse, crushed it, and then promptly sneezed. Then from Bnuchiburi’s tattered saree, torn blanket,...
Read MoreThe Man and The Tree – Yashodhara Ray Chaudhuri
The Antonym instituted the Tagore Award for translated fiction from Bengali in 2021. Here is the story in translation that came seccond in the inaugural season of the Tagore Award for translated fiction -The Man and the Tree written by Yashodhara Ray Chaudhuri and translated by Chirayata Chakraborty.
Read MorePoems by Anita Agnihotri
Anita Agnihotri’s literary oeuvre spans across all genres- poetry, novels, writing for children, and critiques of development. Her poems are translated by Moulinath Goswami.
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Personally , I am an admirer of the Translator 😍. I usually go through her writings . This is also…
Personally I am an admirer of the Translator, I usually prefer to go through her writings . She is an…
Such a simple yet powerful expression of the wrongdoings that occurs in domestic sectors. Absolutely loved the story.
Can you please cite the original poem ? Where to find it in Bangla?
Such a wonderful work ma'am ❤️ I loved it
Just a wonderful work Ma'am....I loved it❤️