অ Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay's Short Stories
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📚 About our sessions
Please read the stories listed below before attending. For every story we will start with summarizing the story so that we have it fresh in our minds. We will share our opinions about the story, which parts we liked and which we didn't like, and we will discuss any and all aspects of the story and the writing.
📖 About this session
Tarasankar Bandopadhyay (1898–1971) is one of the foremost voices of modern Bengali (Indian) literature, writing at a time when rural India was shaped by caste, custom, land ownership, and oral belief systems.
He was awarded Rabindra Puraskar, Sahitya Akademi Award, Jnanpith Award, Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan in India. He was nominated for Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971 and posthumously nominated in 1972.
- The Witch (translated by Aruna Chakravarti) (apprx 8700 words) (original published 1940)
- Kalapahar (translated by Subhamay Ray) (apprx 5570 words) (original published 1937)
After the discussion feel free to stick around, socialize, and make new friends. ☕