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An introduction to the work, artistic development, and literary world of Jibanananda Das, one of the most quoted poets in both Bangladesh and West Bengal. From the 1930s came the rhapsodic sonnet cycle posthumously published under the title of Bengal the Beautiful, and from the 1940s, poetry that reflected his struggle with the problems of a world at war.
"Bengal Fairy Tales" is an anthology of traditional Indian stories assembled by Francis Bradley. The book contains thirty-two Bengali fairy tales. Table of Contents: Part I – Stories Told by Bhabaghuray, the Traveller: The Four Riddles Padmalochan, the Weaver Budhibanta, the Boy Weaver Khoodeh, the Youngest Born Luckhinarain, the Idiot The Four Swindlers Katmanush, or the Human Being who was made of Wood The Wily Brahmin Hati Sing, or the Vanquisher of an Elephant The Country of Swindlers The Man who was enriched by Accident Strange Friends in Time of Need Lakshmi's Gift The Redeeming Power of the Ganges Part II: Madhumala, the Wreath of Sweetness Pushpamala, the Wreath of Flowers Malanchamala, the Wreath in a Flower Garden Kanchanmala, the Golden Wreath Shankha, the Garland of Shells Part III: Princess Kalabutti The Seven Brothers who were turned into Champa Trees Sheet and Basanta Kirunmala, or the Wreath of Light Blue Lotus and Red Lotus Dalimkumar A Stick of Gold and a Stick of Silver Jackal, the Schoolmaster Humility rewarded and Pride punished A Brahmin and his Wife A Man who was only a Finger and a Half in Stature The Petrified Mansion A True Friend
Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse",he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. Sometimes referred to as "the Bard of Bengal", Tagore introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. He was highly influential in introducing the best of Indian culture to the West and vice versa, and he is generally regarded as the outstanding creative artist of the modern Indian subcontinent.
A deeply humane new collection by a luminary of Bengali literature A radiant collection of poetry about womanhood, intimacy, and the body politic that together evokes the arc of an ordinary life. Nabaneeta Dev Sen's rhythmic lines explore the joys and agonies of first love, childbirth, and decay with a restless, tactile imagination, both picking apart and celebrating the rituals that make us human. When she warns, "know that blood can be easily drawn by lips," her words tune to the fierce and biting depths of language, to the "treachery that lingers on tongue tips." At once compassionate and unsparing, conversational and symphonic, these poems tell of a rope shivering beneath an acrobat's nimble feet or of a twisted, blood-soaked umbilical cord -- they pluck the invisible threads that bind us together.