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This selection of fifteen stories by five exceptional Bengali women writers looks at the lives of women who are neither stars nor martyrs in the feminist cause: The are voices, individual and particular, of women leading their everyday lives, nursing their joys and sorrows. These women write out of their bodies and the intimate spaces around them; they write the history and mathematics of their lives; they compose deeper reality; they give us an atmosphere, a ...
Translated for the first time into English, these two plays by Saoli Mitra, a distinguished actor of the Bengali stage, are both based on the Mahabharata. Draupadi’s story is narrated in Five Lords, Yet None a Protector (Nathabati Ananthabat). Married to the five royal Pandav brothers, she is defenceless even in their presence, sexually humiliated by the Kauravs, her husbands’ cousins and rival claimants for the throne. In Timeless Tales (Katha Amritasaman), ...
Bringing together five novellas written by five Indian women writers in five languages, this volume explores the complex and multi-layered world of women's writing in India. Written by Nabaneeta Dev sen in Bengali, Mrinal Pande in Hindi, vaidehi in kannada, B.M,. Zuhara in Malayalam, and by Saniya in Marathi, these novellas reflect the universal themes of loneliness, loss of love, childhood, and melancholy and aging. Presented for the first time in translation, ...