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Bengali Literature

Read An Excerpt From Sankar’s Memoir ‘Dear Reader’

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In Dear Reader, originally published as Eka Eka Ekashi in Bengali, Sankar reflects on his own life. From his mother and grandmother to his teachers and headmasters, he writes fondly of the women and men who shaped his youth… Superbly translated by Arunava Sinha, this is Sankar’s love letter to an ever-changing

Excerpt: A brand new translation of Tagore’s Noukadubi (The Boat-wreck)

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None of the facilities that poetry prepares for lovers is available in Calcutta. Where is the row of flowering trees, where the bower of vines beneath the full moon, where the honey-throated cuckoo’s songs? But still the magic of love is not thwarted in this harsh and arid metropolis devoid