-
From Wizarding Owls to Secret Agents: Our Favourite Fictional Pets
Our furry, cuddly, feathery, and sometimes scaly friends add bounds of joy and a touch of chaos to our lives. The random cat hair clinging to our sweaters, the enthusiastic tail wags of our dogs, the playful bubbles of our
-
Jagadish Chandra Bose: The Reluctant Physicist by Sudipto Das
In Bengal, there has always been a ‘Boseian’ myth that Bose was the inventor of the radio and that Marconi ran away with the radio and the glory that came with it. Bose’s research on plant response and plant physiology
-
Let There be Translations
A few years ago, I embarked on a rather tedious quest to find the English translation of Agnisakshi, a novel of the popular Malayalam writer Lalithambika Antharjanam. Needless to say, it was not as easy as popping into the neighbourhood
-
The Dawn of Online/Digital Magazines
Through the dawn of the online magazines, only time will tell the fate of the traditional ones; however the clash may be, it’s the good content that must win.
-
Empowering unheard voices | International Widows Day
Bani Basu’s seminal novel Swet Patharer Thala was published in 1990. In 2020, I felt the need to translate into English this powerful story about a young widow, who is left to face life with a small child dependent on