English translation of a Bengali Short Story written by Dibyendu Palit “Are you done with it, Moni?” asked Renubala, noting that the sun was about to decline. “Hurry up, my dear, we don’t have much time,” she said. Monica had opened the mynah’s cage. She was filling the earthen bowl with grams. “Why are you in such...
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in the middle of my work. You must become an old man in good time, if you wish to be an old man long. — Marcus Aurelius
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The thin, broken pathway lead to a wicker gate. Beyond it was a still narrower concrete path that went up to the door. To the left of that wicker gate was a strong. iron door from which a huge rusty lock would hang. That was the entrance to the garden. The door screeched loudly in disapproval whenever an attempt would be made to open it. The path was...
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Translation of Prafulla Roy’s Bengali short story Manush The rain came in torrents exactly at noon near the Shermundi hills. Bharosalal began his journey so early at dawn when the sky was still hazy and the sun was yet to rise. He had on his shoulder a pole with a many-coloured cloth bag hanging on one of its ends. He was coming from the Taluka of...
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The voice of wayside pansies, that do not attract the careless glance, murmurs in these desultory lines. Jewel-like the immortal does not boast of its length of years but of the scintillating point of its moment. The rainbow among the clouds may be great but the little butterfly among the bushes is greater. The butterfly has leisure to love the lotus, not...
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A distinguished Bengali poet and critic Sanjay Bhattacharya (1909 – 1969) had his school and college education in his home town, Comilla (Bangladesh) and obtained a private M.A. Degree from the University of Calcutta in 1944. He was the founder-editor of the Bengali journal Purbasha which enjoyed the status of a widely-acclaimed Bengali literary...
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