Category Archives: Translated Fiction

King For A Year

Posted on June 20, 2017 by rumachak

King For A Year There was once a merchant whose only son had been saved from drowning by one of his slaves. The grateful merchant did not just grant the slave his freedom; he also gave him a ship filled … Continue reading →

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Aranyak: Jugal Prasad, the plantsman

Posted on February 1, 2017 by rumachak

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 →

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Reading Aranyak to my mother

Posted on January 27, 2017 by rumachak

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 →

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Manusher Ghorbari: Atin Bandopadhyay

Posted on September 3, 2016 by rumachak

“After we had been without food the whole day, my younger brother Piloo came back with news of a network of cucumber vines on a trellis beside a house. He took me to the place in the afternoon and showed … Continue reading →

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Shiladitya, Rajkahini: Abanindranath Tagore’s tales of the Rajputs

Posted on July 1, 2016 by rumachak

Long before Shiladitya’s birth, when the last king of Kanaksen’s lineage was still ruling at Ballavipur, there was a great tank in that city whose waters were said to be very sacred indeed. This was known as Suryakund or the … Continue reading →

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Rajkahini, Abanindranath Tagore’s tales of the Rajputs

Posted on June 30, 2016 by rumachak

‘When Maldev brought Hambeer to the court where his father and his father’s father had ruled their kingdom from, one cannot begin to describe what was going through Hambeer’s mind. He felt as though all the brave men of the … Continue reading →

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Raikishori, a novel by Suchitra Bhattacharya (January 10, 1950 – May 12, 2015)

Posted on May 13, 2015 by rumachak

“I am Raikishori Mitra. Mitra….or should that be Chaudhury? No, none of the above I am Rai, just Rai…..Raikishori. Don’t let my name fool you into thinking I am some sort of paragon of beauty like Krishna’s lover in Vrindavan. … Continue reading →

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