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12 Global Children’s Books for History Lovers
By Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp
In celebration of #WorldKidLitMonth, Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp recommends 12 international books for young readers with an interest in world history.
Exile Poem
By Tuhin Das
Afterwards, heads of hushed army snipers / pop up on every rooftop.
Translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha
The World at Home: US Writing in Translation
By Susan Harris
This issue is not a departure but a continuation.
The Assassin
By Tuhin Das
Still we couldn’t stop writing.
Translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha
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Just Dinner, but Oh, What a Feast
By Rohan Kamicheril
Though food may fail to broker communication, this is often one of its major supposed roles.
Delbahar and Ghee
By Prasanta Mridha
The most astonishing thing about these men was their ability to eyeball measurements.
Translated from Bengali by Shabnam Nadiya
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Rasha
By Muhammed Zafar Iqbal
Whenever teachers said there was good news, it almost always turned out to be nothing of the sort.
Translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha
Me and Mycobacterium tuberculosis
By Shahaduz Zaman
“And that shadowy bit you see up there, that’s the thing that has me worried.”
Translated from Bengali by Shabnam Nadiya
An Indian Citizen in Our Town
By Mashiul Alam
He can clearly see all of this life of seventy-three years, two months and thirteen days.
Translated from Bengali by Shabnam Nadiya
Hands
By Anwara Syed Haq
The things he could mend! From jewelry to shoe soles, from punctured tires to bent bicycle spokes–he fixed it all.
Translated from Bengali by Shabnam Nadiya
Waiting
By Ahmad Mostofa Kamal
If fornication was stopped, what pleasure was left in life?
Translated from Bengali by Mahmud Rahman
Snakes, Husbands, Ashalota, and Us
By Shaheen Akhtar
The rest of the night we refold our spread-open bodies dreaming snake-dreams.
Translated from Bengali by Shabnam Nadiya
Once Again Love
By Shaheen Akhtar
Cops on our tail, cops on our tail!
Translated from Bengali by Mahmud Rahman
From “The Ascetic and The Courtesan”
By Buddhadeva Bose
Cropless the fields, childless the wives, day after day an emptiness—no rain.
Translated from Bengali by Sankalpo Ghose & Jyotirmoy Datta
Four Poems from “Sparks”
By Rabindranath Tagore
That is why / Flowers seek it in the stars,
Translated from Bengali by William Radice
Parul’s Motherhood
By Selina Hossain
Her whole body shrieks, I could do everything. Why did he run away?
Translated from Bengali by Shabnam Nadiya