by Manas Mitra | Jan 28, 2020 | Audio Book, Uncategorized
About Dhorai Charit Manas Dhorai Charit Manas is our new audio book. Dhorai Charit Manas is one of those masterpieces in Bengali literature which are not really read by common people. However, the entire story is about common people, Dhorai and his neighbours from the...
by Manas Mitra | May 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
Our story for this month, Domer Chita by Ramesh Chandra Sen, is an archetypal story straight from the Kallol Age. Flourishing in the 1920s and 1930s, writers of Kallol Age succeeded in introducing a marked shift in Bengali literature. Influenced by Freud and Marx and...
by Manas Mitra | Apr 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
Mahbub Ul Alam (1 May, 1898 – 7 August, 1981) is one of very few Bengali Muslim writers who have shocked the conservative Muslim society with his pen. Two of his fictional writings, Mofizon and Momener Jabanbandi, reflect the boldness with which he put into...
by Manas Mitra | Mar 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
Gatu passed the Higher Secondary Examination on second attempt and there he had to stop. He has one consolation though; he passed the exam, many did not. He left home with a classical artist. As ill luck would have it, he died. The artist gave him an aluminum foldable...
by Manas Mitra | Feb 11, 2018 | Uncategorized
What is sport to one may be fatal to another. And if this sport is hunting and if that turns out to be an addiction, sport no longer remains a mere sport. This addiction of General Zaroff is no more slaked by natural games. He wants to play with someone who is as...
by Manas Mitra | Jan 17, 2018 | Uncategorized
Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay (born on November 2, 1935) has developed a unique prose style of his own for his stories. In recent stories he has polished this dialogue-oriented style with elements of satire and humour. Our story for this month has just two characters...