Women writers of Bengali literature

Confession & Other Poems— Saswati Sanyal

Oct 5, 2023 | Poetry | 0 |

TRANSLATED FROM THE BENGALI BY OWSHNIK GHOSH Confession I was in search of it.It’s...

Stalks Of Lotus— Indrani Datta

Dec 11, 2022 | Fiction | 0 |

Translated from the Bengali by Ketaki Datta I Since the last monsoon, the door was giving...

The Edges Of Love— Shaheen Akhtar

Nov 28, 2022 | Fiction | 0 |

Translated from the Bengali by Shamita Das Dasgupta 1. All this happened several years...

Feminine Pen: Translating Bengali Women Writers

Oct 19, 2022 | Non Fiction | 3 |

Modern Bengali Literature, since its early days, has been enriched by the works of its myriad...

A Different Kind— Nasreen Jahaan

Oct 7, 2022 | Fiction | 0 |

Translated from the Bengali by Bishnupriya Chowdhuri My daughter’s face on the other side...

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...

Cold Tea— Shaheen Akhtar

Jul 24, 2022 | Fiction | 0 |

Translated from the Bengali by Rituparna Mukherjee The bus lurched to a halt under the darkness of the aerial roots of the banyan tree. The inside of the bus, packed full of passengers, choking in the heat and humidity, reeked...

Sparrow’s Flesh – Pratibha Sarkar

Jul 17, 2022 | Fiction | 3 |

Translated from the Bengali by Sukti Sarkar On days when we fussed and went to bed without eating, “you’ll lose flesh worth a sparrow from that body of yours when you wake up tomorrow,” Ma would say.Girls should not do...

Samaresh’s Life Force – Indrani Datta

Jun 26, 2022 | Fiction | 2 |

Translated from the Bengali by Rituparna Mukherjee On a wintry Saturday afternoon at the beginning of 2013, in the month of January-February, commonly called Magh, Samaresh found himself acutely worried. The place where the...

1st January – Sayantani Bhattacharya

Dec 31, 2021 | Fiction | 0 |

Translated from the Bengali by Chirayata Chakraborty Combing her hair with her fingers, Bnuchiburi picked out a rather buxom louse, crushed it, and then promptly sneezed. Then from Bnuchiburi’s tattered saree, torn blanket,...

The Man and The Tree – Yashodhara Ray Chaudhuri

Dec 3, 2021 | Fiction | 1 |

The Antonym instituted the Tagore Award for translated fiction from Bengali in 2021. Here is the story in translation that came seccond in the inaugural season of the Tagore Award for translated fiction -The Man and the Tree written by Yashodhara Ray Chaudhuri and translated by Chirayata Chakraborty.

Poems by Anita Agnihotri

Nov 26, 2021 | Poetry | 0 |

Anita Agnihotri’s literary oeuvre spans across all genres- poetry, novels, writing for children, and critiques of development. Her poems are translated by Moulinath Goswami.