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The Boat-wreck

by Rabindranath Tagore, Arunava Sinha ...

'Tagore picks up the flotsam of a love story from the Ganga and narrates it like only he can. An eternal human story.'- GulzarAfter a boat-wreck overturns his life, Rameshchandra Chowdhury mistakes young Kamala for his newly wedded bride. They move away from Calcutta to start a domestic life together, even as Ramesh is unable to forget Hemnalini, whom he was always in love with, but could not ... Read more

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'Tagore picks up the flotsam of a love story from the Ganga and narrates it like only he can. An eternal human story.'- GulzarAfter a boat-wreck overturns his life, Rameshchandra Chowdhury mistakes young Kamala for his newly wedded bride. They move away from Calcutta to start a domestic life together, even as Ramesh is unable to forget Hemnalini, whom he was always in love with, but could not
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The Book of Dhaka

A City in Short Fiction

by Arunava Sinha, Pushpita Alam, Akhteruzzaman Elias, Syed Manzoorul Islam, Parvez Hossain, Rashida Sultana, Moinul Ahsan Saber, Shaheen Akhtar, Bipradash Barua, Anwara Syed Haq, Salma Bani, Wasi Ahmed ...

Series series Reading the City
Dhaka may be one of the most densely populated cities in the world - noisy, grid-locked, short on public amenities, and blighted with sprawling slums - but, as these stories show, it is also one of the most colourful and chaotically joyful places you could possibly call home. Slum kids and film stars, day-dreaming rich boys, gangsters and former freedom fighters all rub shoulders in these streets, ... Read more

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Dhaka may be one of the most densely populated cities in the world - noisy, grid-locked, short on public amenities, and blighted with sprawling slums - but, as these stories show, it is also one of the most colourful and chaotically joyful places you could possibly call home. Slum kids and film stars, day-dreaming rich boys, gangsters and former freedom fighters all rub shoulders in these streets,
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Ten Days Of The Strike

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by Sandipan Chattopadhyay, Arunava Sinha ...

'Incredible ... tender, bookish and weary, as well as soaked through with rage' --- ANJUM HASAN'Important stories that afford readers a glimpse of the richness of experience and experimentation in Indian literature' --- ANUKRTI UPADHYAY'Keenly observed and finely detailed' --- JAYASREE KALATHILSandipan Chattopadhyay was one of the pioneers of modern Bengali literature, and among the foremost ... Read more

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'Incredible ... tender, bookish and weary, as well as soaked through with rage' --- ANJUM HASAN'Important stories that afford readers a glimpse of the richness of experience and experimentation in Indian literature' --- ANUKRTI UPADHYAY'Keenly observed and finely detailed' --- JAYASREE KALATHILSandipan Chattopadhyay was one of the pioneers of modern Bengali literature, and among the foremost
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Panty

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Translated by Arunava Sinha ...

A young woman arrives alone in Kolkota, an unfamiliar city in which she knows no-one, and moves into a guesthouse. Her sense of identity already shaken, when she finds a worn pair of leopard print panties in the otherwise-empty wardrobe she begins to fantasise about their former owner, whose imagined life comes to blur with and overlap her own. Darkly glamorous and ferociously erotic, Sangeeta ... Read more

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A young woman arrives alone in Kolkota, an unfamiliar city in which she knows no-one, and moves into a guesthouse. Her sense of identity already shaken, when she finds a worn pair of leopard print panties in the otherwise-empty wardrobe she begins to fantasise about their former owner, whose imagined life comes to blur with and overlap her own. Darkly glamorous and ferociously erotic, Sangeeta
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The Yogini

by Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay ...

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Winner, English PEN Translates AwardSangeeta Bandyopadhyay is back with a hallucinatory and explosively sensual new novel following the acclaimed Panty and Abandon.With her days split between a passionate marriage and a high-octane television studio job, Homi is a thoroughly modern young woman – until one day she is approached by a yogi in the street. This mysterious figure begins to follow her ... Read more

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Winner, English PEN Translates AwardSangeeta Bandyopadhyay is back with a hallucinatory and explosively sensual new novel following the acclaimed Panty and Abandon.With her days split between a passionate marriage and a high-octane television studio job, Homi is a thoroughly modern young woman – until one day she is approached by a yogi in the street. This mysterious figure begins to follow her
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Mamata

Beyond 2021

by Jayanta Ghosal, Arunava Sinha ...

In the West Bengal election of 2021, the longest state election in the history of India, Mamata Banerjee won the khela, and the BJP lost the plot. How did this happen?The author, Jayanta Ghosal, travelled to all the districts of West Bengal and unearthed certain key factors that helped the Trinamool win the state. For instance, there was a massive gap in the BJP's understanding of Bengali identity ... Read more

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In the West Bengal election of 2021, the longest state election in the history of India, Mamata Banerjee won the khela, and the BJP lost the plot. How did this happen?The author, Jayanta Ghosal, travelled to all the districts of West Bengal and unearthed certain key factors that helped the Trinamool win the state. For instance, there was a massive gap in the BJP's understanding of Bengali identity
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Unlove Story

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A gay novel in which the rural landscapes of Bengal set the stage for a story that transcends the boundaries of tradition and love.Mallar, a shy and introspective sixteen-year-old, finds himself drawn to Srijan, his classmate’s enigmatic elder cousin, during a fateful summer in a small-town family home. At first, Mallar’s fantasies take shape in secret sketches of Srijan. But soon, their ... Read more

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A gay novel in which the rural landscapes of Bengal set the stage for a story that transcends the boundaries of tradition and love.Mallar, a shy and introspective sixteen-year-old, finds himself drawn to Srijan, his classmate’s enigmatic elder cousin, during a fateful summer in a small-town family home. At first, Mallar’s fantasies take shape in secret sketches of Srijan. But soon, their
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Things That Happen

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by Bhaskar Chakrabarti ...

Narrated by Arunava Sinha ...

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Bhaskar Chakrabarti's poetry is synonymous with the romantic melancholia inherent to Calcutta. His trenchant poetic voice was one of the most significant to emerge in the 1960s and '70s-perhaps the most prolific period of modern Bengali poetry. Spanning the rise of militant leftism, the spread of crippling poverty across India, the war in Bangladesh, the influx of millions of refugees, the dark, ... Read more

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Bhaskar Chakrabarti's poetry is synonymous with the romantic melancholia inherent to Calcutta. His trenchant poetic voice was one of the most significant to emerge in the 1960s and '70s-perhaps the most prolific period of modern Bengali poetry. Spanning the rise of militant leftism, the spread of crippling poverty across India, the war in Bangladesh, the influx of millions of refugees, the dark,
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Abandon

by Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay ...

Translated by Arunava Sinha ...

"And I struggle to find my place in this dark novel. I yearn for passion and despair – for that is what makes good literature – while Ishwari seeks a life of joy for herself and her son." A powerful novel from the author of Panty about a woman who runs away from home, seeking to free herself from the shackles of society and familial attachments, and instead devote her attentions to writing a novel ... Read more

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"And I struggle to find my place in this dark novel. I yearn for passion and despair – for that is what makes good literature – while Ishwari seeks a life of joy for herself and her son." A powerful novel from the author of Panty about a woman who runs away from home, seeking to free herself from the shackles of society and familial attachments, and instead devote her attentions to writing a novel
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Mamata

Beyond 2021

by Jayanta Ghosal, Arunava Sinha ...

Narrated by Shubhankar ...

Unabridged

9 hours 45 min

In the West Bengal election of 2021, the longest state election in the history of India, Mamata Banerjee won the khela, and the BJP lost the plot. How did this happen?The author, Jayanta Ghosal, travelled to all the districts of West Bengal and unearthed certain key factors that helped the Trinamool win the state. For instance, there was a massive gap in the BJP's understanding of Bengali identity ... Read more

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In the West Bengal election of 2021, the longest state election in the history of India, Mamata Banerjee won the khela, and the BJP lost the plot. How did this happen?The author, Jayanta Ghosal, travelled to all the districts of West Bengal and unearthed certain key factors that helped the Trinamool win the state. For instance, there was a massive gap in the BJP's understanding of Bengali identity
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My Kind of Girl

by Buddhadeva Bose ...

Translated by Arunava Sinha ...

A modern-day Bengali Decameron, My Kind of Girl is a sensitive and vibrant novella containing four disarming accounts of unrequited love. In a railway station one bleak December night, four strangers from different walks of life —a contractor, a government bureaucrat, a writer, and a doctor—face an overnight delay. The sight of a young loving couple prompts them to reflect on and share with each ... Read more

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A modern-day Bengali Decameron, My Kind of Girl is a sensitive and vibrant novella containing four disarming accounts of unrequited love. In a railway station one bleak December night, four strangers from different walks of life —a contractor, a government bureaucrat, a writer, and a doctor—face an overnight delay. The sight of a young loving couple prompts them to reflect on and share with each
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Very Close to Pleasure There's a Sick Cat

by Shakti Chattopadhyay ...

Narrated by Arunava Sinha ...

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1 hour 28 min

In the early 1960s, the Hungry Generation revitalized Bengali poetry in Calcutta, liberating it from the fetters of scholarship and the fog of punditry and freeing it to explore new forms, language, and subjects. Shakti Chattopadhyay was a cofounder of the movement, and his poems remain vibrant and surprising more than a half century later. In his 'urban pastoral' lines, we encounter street ... Read more

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In the early 1960s, the Hungry Generation revitalized Bengali poetry in Calcutta, liberating it from the fetters of scholarship and the fog of punditry and freeing it to explore new forms, language, and subjects. Shakti Chattopadhyay was a cofounder of the movement, and his poems remain vibrant and surprising more than a half century later. In his 'urban pastoral' lines, we encounter street
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