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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 Storiesβ€” 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 Forestβ€” Soham Guha

Β  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…...
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On Freedom of Womenβ€” A Book Review by S. Vincent

A BOOK REVIEW BY S. VINCENT   Unchained β€œMan is born free but everywhere is in chains,” said Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Can he be unchained? Can his shackles be ever broken? Replacing the generic β€˜man’ with woman can…...
Three Body Problem

The Three Body Problemβ€” Soham Guha

A BOOK REVIEW BY SOHAM GUHA This world has received your message. I am a pacifist of this world. It is the luck of your civilization that I am the first to receive your message. I…...
Meet Human Meat

Of Concentric Storytelling, Footballs and The Shifting Worldβ€” Mojaffor Hossain

A BOOK REVIEW OF MOJAFFOR HOSSAIN'S COLLECTION "MEET HUMAN MEAT AND OTHER STORIES" BY PINA PICCOLO     Mojaffor Hossain’s latest short-story collection, translated into English from Bangla by a team of 8 stellar translators and…...
A book review of The Walls Of Delhi by Uday Prakash

An Ode To Resistanceβ€” Anandi Kar

A Review OfΒ The Walls Of DelhiΒ by Uday Prakash     Uday Prakash’s The Walls of Delhi, translated into English by Jason Grunebaum, is a rare instance of contemporary Hindi fiction that bravely brings into sharp…...

A Chronicle That Is A Prophesyβ€” Ankita Bose

A book review of Chronicle Of A Death Foretold by Gabriel GarcΓ­a MΓ‘rquez, translated from the Spanish by Gregory RabassaΒ    Publisher: Penguin Random House India, No. of Pages: 122 [caption…...
Review of dystopian novel The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa translated by Stephen Snyder

The Impermanence Of Memoryβ€” Ahana Bhattacharjee

A Book Review Of The Memory Police: A Novel By Yōko Ogawa And Translated From The Japanese By Stephen SnyderΒ      First published in Japan in 1994, and one of more than 40 works of…...