bengali short story | The Antonym

Bagambor’s Axe— Bimal Lama

Jun 23, 2023 | Fiction | 0 |

TRANSLATED FROM THE BENGALI BY ANKITA BOSE Bag-mara Bagambor– Tiger-terminator...

A City Without Women— Sakyajit Bhattacharya

Apr 29, 2023 | Fiction | 0 |

TRANSLATED FROM THE BENGALI BY ADRIJA GHOSH The ravens were the first to know.Even from a...

A Poor Conductor— Indrani Datta

Sep 25, 2022 | Fiction | 1 |

Translated from the Bengali by Kathakali Jana 1. He picked it up from the street. The painting...

Prehistoric— Manik Bandopadhyay

Sep 3, 2022 | Fiction | 2 |

Translated from the Bengali by Nishi Pulugurtha For Bhiku, the entire monsoon went in great pain....

The Red Horse – Sourav Hossain

May 30, 2022 | Fiction | 0 |

Translated from the Bengali by Shamita Das Dasgupta. One The instant the elder owner flicked his whip on my back and barked out the command, “Let’s go, Shahzada,”[i] I’d neigh and run like a TomTom.[ii] My hooves bit into the...

The Progenitor – Zakir Talukder

May 8, 2022 | Fiction | 1 |

Translated from the Bengali by Masrufa Ayesha Nusrat Shortlisted for the Tagore Award for translated fiction from Bengali Whenever he stood in front of a school or watched a trail of school-going boys, he was reminded of...

Tale of a Christmas Day – Tanwi Haldar

Apr 16, 2022 | Fiction | 0 |

Translated from the Bengali by Archi Chakraborty I am—I mean my name is Swarna Ghosal. My husband left for his office yesterday, that is, on 24th December and has not returned yet. He said he’ll take us to the zoo today....

Amenhotep’s Time – Dipen Bhattacharya

Feb 11, 2022 | Fiction | 0 |

Translated from the original Bengali by Dipen Bhattacharya and Lisa Conyers. The sun was setting; the arches of the temple of the Empress Hatsepsut began to disappear into the darkness. My hands were red after hammering away the...

The Deed of Acquittance – Ishrat Tania

Oct 8, 2021 | Fiction | 0 |

Ishrat Tania is a poet and writer from Bangladesh. Her literary work revolves around perceptions and thoughts about human relations, despair, dreams, nature, transcendence, society and politics. Her published books in Bengali include Nemeche Ichche Niribili (2016), Beejpurush (2018), Mad Ek Swarnava Shishir (2020), Alaper Amphitheater (2020).