Farid Shaheb earned a fair bit at the office today. These days, because of the Anti Corruption Commission and newspaper journalists’ incessant pestering, he can no longer directly take the money offered to him.

Imagine it’s raining cats and dogs The hilly river has let the hair loose

This is an excerpt from Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay's short story "Abhishapta", translated by Dipty Rahman

Protecting translation is a commitment to fostering empathy, understanding, and creativity in a globalised yet divided world.

When I come to you, I become a tree  Trees have roots 

Healthy water-bodies are sunk by envy-blind waste’s outburst  

Irrespective of the ambivalence that marks Metaphysical poetry of the 17th century, Selim marvels us with his choice of words and precision of utterance.

After the previous tenant vacated the house, Khan E Alam decided not to accommodate any younger residents.

I wove necklaces of lyrics/ Which you'd wear beautifully

You called me close in the moments of grace/ Veiling my delicate senses

You know how that day the wind brought out/ The crazy thoughts I had in me all the while.

For poet Abul Hasan Neither the pen nor the camera has changed 

The yard in this noontime is buzzing with/ The white aroma of the guava flower

Review of the Bangla translation of ‘A Strange Library’ (Knopf, 2014) by Haruki Murakami

The winners were announced on 4 April, 2024, with the ceremony being hosted by Sheikh Sultan bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan, chairman of the SZBA Board of Trustees

A review of ‘Temple Lamp: Verses on Banaras’ (India Penguin Classics, 2023) by Mirza Ghalib, translated by Maaz Bin Bilal

A translation of Ahmed Sofa's essay on Dostoyevsky

The challenge of untranslatability is something that the translator has to contend with throughout the process of the enterprise.

Speakers talked about the losses and the gains of the meaning of text after having undergone translation, about the responsibility and the power that a translator holds in taking an author’s words and transforming it for a different reader base.

Shahaduz Zaman is a familiar face in Bangladeshi literature, whose literary career spans decades of fruitful work. He regularly writes columns for Bangla newspapers, has written a few notable biographical fiction, such as Ekjon Komolalebu (Prothoma, 2017), based around the life of Jibanananda Das, and has garnered some duly needed appreciation for ethnographic work on the history of medicine during the liberation war.