Literature

Book Reviews, Fiction and miscellaneous musings on literature..

This section contains my book reviews, short stories, a few translations and miscellaneous ruminations on literature and its associated personalities, real and fictional.

My 10 Books

Book Reviews:

Those Days (Shei Somoy)

The First Light (Prothom Alo)

Tungabhadra’r Teere

The Chess Machine

Man Eaters of Kumaon

The Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag

The One World Schoolhouse

The Greatest Show on Earth

Quiet

Jaya

Sita

Panchajanya

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Fiction by Avik

Short Story: Memories of a Rainy Night

Short Story: Silly Point

Short Story: Waiting for Dawn

Short Story: Nudge

Poems

Many truths

Lesser Children

Imperfections

(Not) just saying

On the road less travelled

When the time’s right?

Who wrote it all

The trade I made

The puzzle of the pearl

 Turning corners

The Wait

Tiger in the Twilight

Hoarded Fortune

Unrequited Hate

Translations

Bojre tomar baje bashi by Rabindranath Tagore

Vidyasagar by Rabindranath Tagore

Bojhapora by Rabindranath Tagore

Gandharir Abedan by Rabindranath Tagore

Debotar Gras by Rabindranath Tagore

Niruddesh Jatra by Rabindranath Tagore

Ekhon Bodhoy Phool Choranor Pala (Bengali folk song)

Sanyasi je jagilo oi (Rabindrasangeet)

Phagun Haway (Rabindrasangeet)

Chhatradhara by Kalidas Ray

Nirjharer Swapnobhango by Rabindranath Tagore

Miscellaneous

On Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

On Agatha Christie

On Ruskin Bond

Byomkesh, Feluda and Kakababu

Rabindrasangeet

The flip side of Recommendations through Analytics

On India’s Mars Orbiter Mission