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Timeless Tales From Bengal: An Anthology of Bangla Children's and Young Adults' Stories
by Dipankar Roy & Saurav Dasthakur
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AuthorDipankar Roy & Saurav Dasthakur
PublisherThornbird
SynopsisBuddhadeva Bose, the noted Bengali littérateur, once observed that the greatest treasure of Bangla literature is its children’s and young adults’ literature. The achievements of stalwarts as various as Rabindranath Tagore, Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay,Sukumar Ray, Manik Bandyopadhyay, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay, Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, Narayan Gangopadhyay, Sunil Gangopadhyay, Satyajit Ray and many others in this realm enable it to match similar traditions existing anywhere in the world.
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Binding: Hard Back
About the author
Dipankar Roy (b. 1970) teaches in the Department of English, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. His doctoral dissertation, In Tagore’s Own Country, was published in 2015. His essays on subjects ranging from Bengal Renaissance to Rudyard Kipling’s Kim have come out in reputed national/international journals and books. He was awarded the Isaac Sequeira Memorial Award for his article on Amitav Ghosh. Roy has translated works of modern Bangla poetry into English and Indian English poetry into Bangla. His other interests include Walter Benjamin, nineteenth-century Calcutta, terracotta temples and Hindustani classical music.
Saurav Dasthakur (b. 1978) is Assistant Professor of English at Visva-Bharati. His areas of research interest include Modernist Literature, Children’s Literature, Culture Studies and Translation. He has published academic articles in books and journals of national and international repute including Journal of Asian Studies and co-guest-edited a special issue of Sangeet Natak, the journal of Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi, on Rabindranath Thakur. His translations of poetry, short fiction and non-fictional pieces, between English and Bangla, have been published in several books and journals.
