Ghosts in Bengali cinema are enjoying a mini-renaissance of their own with Anirban Bhattacharya’s Ballabhpurer Roopkotha, thanks to Raghu-da — a naughty spirit who has a weakness for comely lasses and ...

History, especially of the 19th century, rivals rashogolla and ilish maach for the affections of the average Bengali. But even as they devour the heroic narratives of the progress of reason heralded ...

A newlywed girl, who’s just stepped into her teens, wakes up before the sun rises, to go fill water from the handpump in the courtyard of her still-alien house. She looks up to see an older married ...

On her translation into English of the work of Trailokyanath Mukhopadhyay, who invented the genre of speculative fiction in Bengali literature “Trailokyanath’s ghosts are of two kinds: the ...