Celebrating the best of Bengali short fiction
Bengali literature has had a rich history of prose, beginning more or less in the early 19th century under the colonial Raj.
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Bengali literature has had a rich history of prose, beginning more or less in the early 19th century under the colonial Raj.
This year’s shortlist doesn’t offer much in the way of consolation, but it might shake up how you see the world.
With conversations about multilingualism, Bhakti poetry and performances by Naseeruddin Shah and Jacek Luminski, the event was wide-ranging and inspiring
When Rifat Bhai and I sat down to talk about Bangladeshi fiction one evening, last year, in the golden glow of the Daily Star Books cubicle,
Amanda Montell states that gender is directly linked to power in many cultures, as is language. It’s just that we are unable to identify the difference. People use language to express gender.