Bengali
Stranded in Geneva Camp
Life in the largest refugee camp for Bangladesh’s Urdu-speaking community.
Gabriele Cecconi | Jun 27, 2019
Nagarkirtan’s intersections
Kaushik Ganguly’s transgender love story is a nuanced and unflinching account of life on the margins.
Sohini Chatterjee | Jun 03, 2019
Food for train journeys
Arunava Sinha’s collection of translated Bengali short stories offers a quirky mix of the expected and the unknown.
Supriya Chaudhuri | Jul 27, 2016
The eddies in the boundary
Goutam Ghose’s 'Sankhachil' over-simplifies West Bengal-Bangladesh border politics.
Sahana Ghosh | Jun 22, 2016
The ghosts of Harlem past
The history of Southasians in America is richer than the discourse suggests.
Krishnendu Ray | Mar 16, 2015
Ricefields
A first-time translation of the short story ‘Dhaan’ by Bengali writer Jyotirmoyee Devi
Jyotirmoyee Devi, translator Madhusree Mukerjee | Apr 05, 2013
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