One winter evening in Calcutta, when I was ten, we ran out of food in our third floor flat. It was a freak concatenation of circumstances, not poverty, that led to our predicament, but the fact ...

In recent years, the landscape of Bangla romance has witnessed a notable shift. While the themes of societal expectations and familial obligations continue to be prevalent, there has been a gradual ...

Full-time writer, part-time cribber. Sucker for good pictures. My motto in life is to finish eating all the seafood in the world. Bengalis and football are inseparable. If you’re a Bengali reading ...

New Delhi, May 8 () When penning a book of Bengali short stories, it is only natural to begin with Rabindranath Tagore's 'Kabuliwallah,' the iconic tale of friendship between an Afghani dry-fruit ...

I feel, love stories are evergreen and always find an audience if made well. Moreover, who wouldn’t get excited to see Ruskin’s love stories? Talking about this, Ruskin Bond expressed, “Love is that ...

The Greatest Bengali Stories Ever Told is the latest addition to translations of modern and contemporary Bengali fiction and non-fiction by Arunava Sinha. Winner of several awards, Sinha is probably ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. By now, it’s an old joke: Molière’s Bourgeois Gentilhomme discovers that he has been speaking something called ...