The prose short story arrived in Bengal in the wake of British colonizers, and Bengali writers qu...

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

A man''s perennial quest for the unattainable, Black Rose also brings alive the heady idealism an...

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

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Winner of an English PEN awardThe latest novel from the author of Panty and Abandon.

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

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

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...

A humorous travelogue of the author's journey across north-east India on a truck, all the way to ...

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

'India has found its Ferrante' - Niven Govinden

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

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

Writing Places

Some of the world's finest short fiction has originated (and continues to flow) from) the cities,...

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...

A Poem a Day:

Bengal in the 1940s. Having overcome the famine and the revolt of the sharecroppers, Bengal's pea...

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

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

'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...

Abandon