This write-up describes my singular experience in translating Bengali short stories into English. However, all literary translations deal with certain common problems—of idiolect and dialect, or the ...

A haat-e khari ceremony (learning to write the first letter of the Bengali alphabet) for Bengal governor C V Ananda Bose, organised at Raj Bhavan on the occasion of Saraswati Puja and Republic Day on ...

What comes to mind when you hear the word calligraphy? Probably, the fluid artistic representation of the Arabic alphabets, the oriental delight that is the Chinese script, or English letters in ...