Past Projects

Completed | Reading of ‘The Prisoner’ at cafe Pour Over, Kolkata

'The Prisoner' - reading and discussion at Cafe Pourover that happened on 20th April. Tilottama Majumdar read from the original Bengali novel ' Kayedi' while translator Adrija Ghosh read from the translated version. The discussion was facilitated by Dr. Chaiti Mitra...
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Completed | Story Telling at Dolna Day School, Kolkata

Our story telling event at Dolna Day School on Tuesday, 16th April, 2024 was met with much enthusiasm from the students of classes 3 and 4. Stories from 2 books were told Ms Nidhee Gujral, who is a professional story teller. The books are 'Nandalal; and 'What is a Tail...
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CSR Activity | Antonym Shishushathi Granthagar at Dhandhali

A library is the best gift one can think of for the underprivileged children. "Antonym Shishu Shathi Gronthagar" is one such gift for the 130 children of Prunendu Smritee Shishu Shiksha Niketan, which was established as a primary school in 2014. Antonym Community of Global Art and Literature (ACGAL) took...
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Graphic Novel Workshop

COMPLETED | Graphic Novel Workshop

Registration is now open for a day long Graphic Novel/Comics Workshop  on 7th January 2024  At Asutosh Mukherjee Memorial Institute, Kolkata with acclaimed graphic novelist and illustrator Harsho Mohan Chattoraj    Workshop Outline:  Session 1  : 11am …...
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COMPLETED | Collaborative Translation Retreat

Here is your chance to hone your skill as a literary translator and take up novel-length project under the mentorship of celebrated translator V. Ramaswamy. Applications are now open for Antonym Collection’s upcoming novel fiction translation retreat to…...
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Completed | Short Story Translation Project

Applications are now open for our upcoming fiction translation retreat to be held between 1st - 6th November 2023 under the mentorship of acclaimed translator V. Ramaswamy. This retreat will focus on translating the short fictions…...
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Completed | The Antonym February Poetry Contest Winners

We invited poetry submission with this prompt for our February Poetry Contest:   We received more than 100 submissions, thanks everyone who submitted. We really enjoyed miriad interpretations of the artwork by Sumona…...
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Completed | Kolkata Poetry Confluence – Multilingual Poetry Translation Competition

The Antonym and Bhasha Samsad are jointly organizing a poetry translation competition which will require participants to translate poems from different South Asian languages into English and Bengali. The best translations for each of the…...
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Completed | The Antonym Translation Workshop

The Antonym organized a three-day translation workshop during 7-9th January,2022 which was attended by mainly translators of Bengali fiction. The three-day online workshop dealt with following topics:Day 1:1. Philosophy and Practice: how goals…...
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