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Category Archives: Bengal
Translated poetry: JUST FOR YOU, Nirmalendu Goon শুধু তোমার জন্য, নির্মলেন্দু গুণ
JUST FOR YOU My God knows, how often I have pulled back Just as I was about to touch you. My God knows, how often I have held my tongue Just as I was about to tell you of my … Continue reading
Posted in Bengal, Modern Bengali Poetry, Translated Poetry
Tagged নির্মলেন্দু গুণ, Nirmalendu Goon
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Aranyak: Jugal Prasad, the plantsman
I came across an unusual person one afternoon by the banks of the lake known as Saraswati Kundi. I was riding slowly past its edge on my way back from the survey camp one day when I saw a man … Continue reading
Reading Aranyak to my mother
I have been reading Aranyak for my mother while my father dozes intermittently beside her. He does not hear me at all so there is little risk of him waking up. She does not read at night, her cataracts are … Continue reading
Posted in A Good Thing, Bengal, Books, Translated Fiction
Tagged Aranyak, Bibhuti Bhushan Bandopadhyay, Gangotiya, Kunta, Lobtuliya
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Explanare, if you please; ‘Splanade, if you must!
One of the earliest memories I have of Calcutta is of my aunt coming back from her classes at Scottish Church College. It must have been from her that I first heard the word Esplanade. For a nine year old, … Continue reading
Posted in Bengal, British Raj, Calcutta, Our history, Photographs
Tagged 'Splanade, Esplanade, Scottish Church College
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Daryar Panch Pir
Dariyar Panch Pir, Badr, Badr! Anyone who has read stories about the boatmen of Bengal will remember the invocation they call out to the five Pirs to protect them against stormy weather as well as Portuguese and Arakan pirates from … Continue reading
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Tagged Badr Badr, Jalaluddin Tabrizi, Khwaja Khizr, Manik Saudagar, Murshidabad, Panch Pir
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Flowers and Flower Gardens: Instructions for the Anglo-Indian Flower Garden
“But it is not until he arrives at a bend of the river called Garden Reach, where the City of Palaces first opens on the view, that the stranger has a full sense of the value of our possessions in … Continue reading
Deshe Bideshe/Home and Abroad by Syed Mujtaba Ali
“He asked me whether I knew anyone in Peshawar or if I would go to a hotel. I said, ‘An acquaintance of a friend is coming to the station, but I have never seen him before and am a little … Continue reading