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Set in the turbulent 1960s Days and Nights in the Forest (Aranyer Dinratri) was the second novel that a young Sunil Gangopadhyay wrote. Largely autobiographical, it is the story of a whimsical, impromptu journey that four city youths— Ashim, Sanjoy, Shekhar and Robi—take into the forests of Palamau.The four friends blithely imagine that their escapade into the wilderness will distance them from ‘civilization’ and take them closer to ...
In Shodh unlike her other novels, Taslima Nasrin seeks to revolutionise the concept of love and marriage in the so-called elite yet tradition-bound societies. She effects this through a transformation of roles assigned to women—as lover, wife, mother and daughter-in-law. The story of Jhumur’s marriage to Haroon, therefore, goes beyond the study of a marriage or the fate of a person and raises issues such as: Is love possible without self-respect; What is the ...
This collection of Bangla short stories in English translation is an endeavour to present in a single volume a representative picture of Bengal of the recent past and of today, and to introduce the readers to some significant features of the life of its people, its society and culture. While sharing the motif of home as the running thread, each story in this volume however has a different dimension also. One can find a story or two that are politically more ...
Ritwik Ghatak, the famous film-maker, is known all over India and abroad for some of the greatest films made in India, which set the scene for future film making. But his short stories -- works of miniaturist art in their own right -- are less known. The stories collected in this volume speak well for themselves as much as they remind his audience of another facet of his versatility which was eclipsed by the more obvious virtuosity of his filmography. The stories ...
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhaya (1894-1950) the most important fiction writer in Bengali literature after Rabindranath Tagore and Sarat Chandra, and remembered best for his Apu novels, wrote innumerable tales and short stories. The selection of stories in the present volume, introduced by the writer's grandson, Tathagata Banerjee, are some of the finest examples of his story telling, chosen for their excellence as works of imagination rather than any theoretical ...
On the eve of Partition, Kalyani is compelled to leave Mymensingha and come away to Kolkata, where she never settles down or feels at home. Her journey back to Bangladesh reveals to her that her homeland had existed merely in her imagination and that she must share the fate of millions of others who have left one country for another, and do not belong to either. Kalyani’s story is a paradigm of loss and displacement, of the failure to connect, which is the ...