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Book Review Of Tamang Selo: An Anthology

A BOOK REVIEW BY ARATRIKA GANGULY   Tamang Selo: An Anthology (Annotated Text and English Translation), edited by Sayantan Dasgupta and Shradhanjali Tamang, was published from Jadavpur University Press in collaboration with Centre for…...
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A Book Review of Asylum and Other Poems— Oudarjya Pramanik

A BOOK REVIEW BY OUDARJYA PRAMANIK   Jerry Pinto, an Indian prose writer, poet, translator and journalist, is a distinct voice in contemporary Indian literature. His work is characterised by its profound exploration of human emotions,…...
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Book review: Transgression and Other Stories— Pratibha Ray

A BOOK REVIEW BY TAMOHA MAJUMDAR   The short story as a narrative form is particularly effective in capturing the most complex human emotions with an economy of language. Pratibha Ray’s collection, Transgression and Other Stories masterfully…...
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Suspected Poems Book Review— Shubha Sundar Ghosh

A BOOK REVIEW BY SHUBHA SUNDAR GHOSH   One might wonder who Gulzar is. A lyricist? A poet? An author? A film-maker? Well, it may seem quite a hefty task to define him in accordance to a…...
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Claiming The Sky— Oudarjya Pramanik.

BOOK REVIEW BY OUDARJYA PRAMANIK   Poems work as a medium of communication through written words. Thus, a poem is the product of expressing the emotions of the poet that are shared among the…...
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Of Memories, Resistance and Nation-Building: A Review of Shahidul Zahir’s Life and Political Reality: Two Novellas— Rituparna Mukherjee

A BOOK REVIEW BY RITUPARNA MUKHERJEE     V.Ramaswamy and Shahroza Nahrin’s translation of Shahidul Zahir’s Jibon O Rajnoitik Bastobota (1987) and Abu Ibrahimer Mrityu (1991) published in the year 2022 by Harper Perennial comes at a…...
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The Long Winding Tale – The Resounding Voice of Tilottama Majumdar’s Short Fictions

TRANSLATED FROM THE BENGALI BY SUCHETONA PAL Tilottama MajumdarTilottama Majumdar is a renowned novelist, essayist, short story writer and a poet who has largely written in Bengali. While she has been a recipient…...
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Book Review of Manto and Chughtai: The Essential Stories— Anandi Kar

A BOOK REVIEW BY ANANDI KAR   Manto and Chughtai The Essential Stories, a collection of select short stories by two of the most salient short story writers from the time when the earliest clarion calls for…...
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The Dark Forest— Soham Guha

  A BOOK REVIEW BY SOHAM GUHA   Remembrance of Earth’s Past Book II   When we look at the night sky, two things occur to a person. Either we feel small…...