Author:
Publisher: Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Contemporary Bengali Literature
Author:
Publisher: Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher: Academic Publishers
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Modern Bengali Poetry
Author: Arunava Sinha
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912681228
Category : Bengali poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The seventh-most spoken language in the world, Bengali is home to some of the most distinctive poetry ever written anywhere. Starting with the later poems of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, there has been a long and continuous line of modern poetry in the language, its span ranging from lyrical love poems to passionate political verse, from expressions of existential anguish to psychological explorations. This volume celebrates over one hundred years of this poetry from the two Bengals--the eastern Indian state and the country of Bangladesh-- represented by over fifty different poets and a multitude of forms and styles.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912681228
Category : Bengali poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The seventh-most spoken language in the world, Bengali is home to some of the most distinctive poetry ever written anywhere. Starting with the later poems of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, there has been a long and continuous line of modern poetry in the language, its span ranging from lyrical love poems to passionate political verse, from expressions of existential anguish to psychological explorations. This volume celebrates over one hundred years of this poetry from the two Bengals--the eastern Indian state and the country of Bangladesh-- represented by over fifty different poets and a multitude of forms and styles.
Periodicals, Readers and the Making of a Modern Literary Culture: Bengal at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Author: Samarpita Mitra
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004427082
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Periodicals, Readers and the Making of a Modern Literary Culture is a study of literary periodicals and the Bengali public sphere at the turn of the twentieth century, the variety of interests and concerns that animated this domain and how literary relations were seen to constitute new social solidarities.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004427082
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
Periodicals, Readers and the Making of a Modern Literary Culture is a study of literary periodicals and the Bengali public sphere at the turn of the twentieth century, the variety of interests and concerns that animated this domain and how literary relations were seen to constitute new social solidarities.
My Kind of Girl
Author: Buddhadeva Bose
Publisher: Random House India
ISBN: 8184002149
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Is the memory of happiness that has passed, sad or happy? Four middle aged men sit together in a railway station, waiting for dawn to break. To pass their time, each tells a story of a woman they loved secretly in their youth... Romantic, elegant, suffused with melancholy, My Kind of Girl is a classic love story from one of Bengal’s great writers.
Publisher: Random House India
ISBN: 8184002149
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Is the memory of happiness that has passed, sad or happy? Four middle aged men sit together in a railway station, waiting for dawn to break. To pass their time, each tells a story of a woman they loved secretly in their youth... Romantic, elegant, suffused with melancholy, My Kind of Girl is a classic love story from one of Bengal’s great writers.
Acrobat
Author: Nabaneeta Dev Sen
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1939810809
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
A deeply humane new collection by a luminary of Bengali literature A radiant collection of poetry about womanhood, intimacy, and the body politic that together evokes the arc of an ordinary life. Nabaneeta Dev Sen's rhythmic lines explore the joys and agonies of first love, childbirth, and decay with a restless, tactile imagination, both picking apart and celebrating the rituals that make us human. When she warns, "know that blood can be easily drawn by lips," her words tune to the fierce and biting depths of language, to the "treachery that lingers on tongue tips." At once compassionate and unsparing, conversational and symphonic, these poems tell of a rope shivering beneath an acrobat's nimble feet or of a twisted, blood-soaked umbilical cord -- they pluck the invisible threads that bind us together.
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 1939810809
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
A deeply humane new collection by a luminary of Bengali literature A radiant collection of poetry about womanhood, intimacy, and the body politic that together evokes the arc of an ordinary life. Nabaneeta Dev Sen's rhythmic lines explore the joys and agonies of first love, childbirth, and decay with a restless, tactile imagination, both picking apart and celebrating the rituals that make us human. When she warns, "know that blood can be easily drawn by lips," her words tune to the fierce and biting depths of language, to the "treachery that lingers on tongue tips." At once compassionate and unsparing, conversational and symphonic, these poems tell of a rope shivering beneath an acrobat's nimble feet or of a twisted, blood-soaked umbilical cord -- they pluck the invisible threads that bind us together.
Chowringhee
Author: Śaṃkara
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 9780143101031
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Set in 1950s Calcutta, this is a saga of the intimate lives of managers, employees and guests at one of Calcutta's largest hotels, the Shahjahan.
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 9780143101031
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Set in 1950s Calcutta, this is a saga of the intimate lives of managers, employees and guests at one of Calcutta's largest hotels, the Shahjahan.
The Vintage Book of Modern Indian Literature
Author: Amit Chaudhuri
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 037571300X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In recent years American readers have been thrilling to the work of such Indian writers as Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth. Now this extravagant and wonderfully discerning anthology unfurls the full diversity of Indian literature from the 1850s to the present, presenting today’s brightest talents in the company of their distinguished forbearers and likely heirs. The thirty-eight authors collected by novelist Amit Chaudhuri write not only in English but also in Hindi, Bengali, and Urdu. They include Rabindranath Tagore, arguably the first international literary celebrity, chronicling the wistful relationship between a village postal inspector and a servant girl, and Bibhuti Bhushan Banerjee, represented by an excerpt from his classic novel about an impoverished Bengali childhood, Pather Panchali. Here, too, are selections from Nirad C. Chaudhuri’s Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, R. K. Narayan’s The English Teacher, and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children alongside a high-spirited nonsense tale, a drily funny account of a pre-Partition Muslim girlhood, and a Bombay policier as gripping as anything by Ed McBain. Never before has so much of the subcontinent’s writing been made available in a single volume.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 037571300X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In recent years American readers have been thrilling to the work of such Indian writers as Salman Rushdie and Vikram Seth. Now this extravagant and wonderfully discerning anthology unfurls the full diversity of Indian literature from the 1850s to the present, presenting today’s brightest talents in the company of their distinguished forbearers and likely heirs. The thirty-eight authors collected by novelist Amit Chaudhuri write not only in English but also in Hindi, Bengali, and Urdu. They include Rabindranath Tagore, arguably the first international literary celebrity, chronicling the wistful relationship between a village postal inspector and a servant girl, and Bibhuti Bhushan Banerjee, represented by an excerpt from his classic novel about an impoverished Bengali childhood, Pather Panchali. Here, too, are selections from Nirad C. Chaudhuri’s Autobiography of an Unknown Indian, R. K. Narayan’s The English Teacher, and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children alongside a high-spirited nonsense tale, a drily funny account of a pre-Partition Muslim girlhood, and a Bombay policier as gripping as anything by Ed McBain. Never before has so much of the subcontinent’s writing been made available in a single volume.
The Greatest Bengali Stories Ever Told
Author: Arunava Sinha
Publisher: Rupa Publication
ISBN: 9789382277743
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Selected and translated by renowned writer, editor and translator Arunava Sinha, the twenty-one stories in this anthology represent the finest example of the genre. Some of the world's finest short fiction has originated (and continues to flow) from) the cities, villages, rivers, forests and plains of Bengal. This selection features twenty-one of the very best stories from the region. Here, the reader will find one of Rabindranath Tagore's most revered stories 'The Kabuliwallah' in a glinting new translation, memorable studies of ordinary people from Tarashankar and Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, the iconic Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's wrenching study of Bengali society, 'Mahesh', as well as over a dozen other astounding stories by some of the greatest practitioners of the form-Buddha deva Bose, Ashapurna Debi, Premendra Mitra, Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Mahasweta Devi, Sunil Gangopadhyay and Nabarun Bhattacharya, among others. These are stories of anger, loss, grief, disillusionment, magic, politics, trickery, humour and the darkness of mind and heart. They reimagine life in ways that make them unforgettable.
Publisher: Rupa Publication
ISBN: 9789382277743
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Selected and translated by renowned writer, editor and translator Arunava Sinha, the twenty-one stories in this anthology represent the finest example of the genre. Some of the world's finest short fiction has originated (and continues to flow) from) the cities, villages, rivers, forests and plains of Bengal. This selection features twenty-one of the very best stories from the region. Here, the reader will find one of Rabindranath Tagore's most revered stories 'The Kabuliwallah' in a glinting new translation, memorable studies of ordinary people from Tarashankar and Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, the iconic Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's wrenching study of Bengali society, 'Mahesh', as well as over a dozen other astounding stories by some of the greatest practitioners of the form-Buddha deva Bose, Ashapurna Debi, Premendra Mitra, Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Mahasweta Devi, Sunil Gangopadhyay and Nabarun Bhattacharya, among others. These are stories of anger, loss, grief, disillusionment, magic, politics, trickery, humour and the darkness of mind and heart. They reimagine life in ways that make them unforgettable.
Poetry and History
Author: David L. Curley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788180280313
Category : Bengal (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Study on 'Canḍịmaṅgala', 16th century narrative verse by Mukunda Rām Cakravartī and contemporary Bengal, India.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788180280313
Category : Bengal (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Study on 'Canḍịmaṅgala', 16th century narrative verse by Mukunda Rām Cakravartī and contemporary Bengal, India.
Thumbkin
Author: Abanindranath Tagore
Publisher: Ponytale Books
ISBN: 9380637756
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Hriday, a naughty little boy, is unthinkingly cruel to animals. He goes his merry way till a terrible crime causes him to be turned into a Thumbkin with no prospect of return to the human world. Now, he is at the mercy of the very same animals he has wronged, and is desperate to make amends. But all the animals are happy with his situation! Finally, the pet lame swan of the family takes pity and Hriday is wafted away on his creaky wings to the Himalayas in search of Lord Ganesha who can save him. Little does Hriday realize that this will be the beginning of the strangest adventure in the worlds of mice and men, Gods and demons, hate and love, and better understanding . . .
Publisher: Ponytale Books
ISBN: 9380637756
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Hriday, a naughty little boy, is unthinkingly cruel to animals. He goes his merry way till a terrible crime causes him to be turned into a Thumbkin with no prospect of return to the human world. Now, he is at the mercy of the very same animals he has wronged, and is desperate to make amends. But all the animals are happy with his situation! Finally, the pet lame swan of the family takes pity and Hriday is wafted away on his creaky wings to the Himalayas in search of Lord Ganesha who can save him. Little does Hriday realize that this will be the beginning of the strangest adventure in the worlds of mice and men, Gods and demons, hate and love, and better understanding . . .