Kazi Imdadul Huq's novel Abdullah, written nearly a century ago, is regarded as one of the first modern novels by a Bengali Muslim writer. Initially known for his poetry and children's literature, Huq ...
Whenever readers think of Akhteruzzaman Elias (1943-1997), his novels and short stories immediately come to mind. He wrote only two novels—Khoabnama (1996), centred on the Tebhaga Movement, and ...
US based Indian comic book and graphic novelist Saurav Mohapatra is now retelling Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay’s story to an English audience, with powerful illustrations by Sayan Mukherjee ...
The One Legged is an affecting translation of Sakyajit Bhattacharya’s Bengali novel Ekanore. The translator, Rituparna Mukherjee, evokes the haunting sights, smells and sounds of this fictional world ...
There is a conversation between Rodrigo, a Thoothukudi fisherman, and Sadanand Mukherjee, a Bengali anthropologist, in the novel Sippiyin Vayitril Muthu (Pearl in the Oyster), echoing the words of ...
The thrills seem to have evaporated from Kamaleswar Mukherjee's handsome, slow-moving adaptation of a classic Bengali novel. Based on a classic Bengali novel, a 1937 story of African adventure that ...
Ashwin Gangaraju who made his directorial debut with Aakashvani, is set to direct upcoming multilingual film 1770, based on Bankim Chandra’s Bengali novel Anandamath. The makers released the motion ...
Bengali literary adaptations are becoming increasingly popular in India’s Tollywood film industry, with filmmakers moving away from remakes of south Indian productions. Characters from the genre’s ...
The thrills seem to have evaporated from Kamaleswar Mukherjee's handsome, slow-moving adaptation of a classic Bengali novel. Based on a classic Bengali novel, a 1937 story of African adventure that ...