We just published our first monthly issue, with a whole bunch of 11 articles. You are cordially invited to gulp them down and leave your feedback and comments on the blog.

Here goes: http://bangalnama.wordpress.com

Thanks and regards,

Team Bangalnama

from Calcutta, Kolkata | 8 Jul 2009

Dear fellow bloggers,

We just published our first monthly issue, with a whole bunch of articles. You are cordially invited to gulp them down and leave your feedback and comments on the blog.

Here goes: http://bangalnama.wordpress.com

Thanks and regards,

Team Bangalnama

from Calcutta, Kolkata | 29 Jul 2009

Dear friends,

A whole bunch of interesting articles (in Bengali and English) were published on our July issue. Topics ranging from the "Bongo-Bhango" (Partition of Bengal 1905 ), the later partition of 1947, the role of East Bengali refugee women and the rise of the Bengali middle class working women, personal memoirs relating to the partition, a book review of "Amar Fnashi Chai" by Matiur Rahman Rentu, Literary essays on Humayun Ahmed's immortal character Himu, and a postmortem of the works of Amitav Ghosh, and also parts of series-articles on the Morichjhanpi genocide, East Bengali cuisine and recipes, and Comrade Saroj Dutta.

Read our first monthly issue here. Your feedback and comments in the blog will be much appreciated.

Full contents:

»আমাদের কথা

কৈফিয়ৎ

»ফিচার ১: দেশ, জাতি, বাঙালী ও বাঙাল

বাঙালত্ব বাঙালীত্ব নিয়ে কয়েক ছত্র প্রলাপ — দেবর্ষি দাস

বাঙালির জাতিবিদ্বেষ ১৯০৫: গৌরব না লজ্জা — বোধিসত্ত্ব কর

»ফিচার ২: কাঁটাতার পেরিয়ে, ব্যারিকেড পেরিয়ে

The Waiting Rooms of History — Debjani Sengupta

Partition Experiences of the East Bengali Refugee Women — Tridib Santapa Kundu

»প্রবন্ধ: কথা-সাহিত্যে বাঙাল

হিমু — ঋতেন মিত্র

Amitav Ghosh’s Works – A Literary Postmortem — Dibyakusum Ray

»ধারাবাহিক

The Silence of Marichjhapi — Jhuma Sen

(পূর্বপ্রকাশিত) নিষিদ্ধ নামের সন্ধানে — বাসু আচার্য্য (১ম খন্ড ও ২য় খন্ড)

আমোদিনীর হেঁশেল — দেবলীনা সেন

»বই সমালোচনা

আমার ফাঁসি চাইঃ মতিয়ুর রহমান রেন্টু — সোমনাথ রায়

Warm regards,

Team Bangalnama

Shankar

from Chennai | 29 Jul 2009

here are some controversial topics in my blog...

http://ballat.blogspot.com/2009/07/why-do-they-ask-for-compensation_27.html

http://ballat.blogspot.com/2009/06/which-is-more-cruel-racism-or-raping.html

http://ballat.blogspot.com/2009/05/teaching-service-or-profession.html

http://ballat.blogspot.com/2009/06/women-biased-society.html

http://ballat.blogspot.com

Team Bangalnama

from Calcutta, Kolkata | 27 Oct 2009

Fresh from our Team-blog...

http://bangalnama.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/an-interpreter-for-the-bengali-diaspora/

(An insight into Jhumpa Lahiri's stories and novels - from the point of view of the author's roots, and South Asian diasporic literature....)

http://bangalnama.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/reclaiming-the-margins-of-faded-scrolls/

(An account in personal ancestral history, connecting to the broader historical perspective of one of the forgotten chapters in the caste-struggle for identity. Of faded scrolls, and reclaimed margins...)