Buddhadeva Bose

It Rained All Night

"[Written] with consummate mastery. . . . A gem of delight. . . . Bose stokes the embers of the story alive till the last page." ?Indian Express A modern-day Bengali Decameron, My Kind of Girl is a sensitive and vibrant novella containing four disarming accounts of unrequited love. In a railway station one bleak December night, four strangers from different walks of life - a contractor, a government bureaucrat, a writer, and a doctor - face an overnight delay. The sight of a young loving couple prompts them to reflect on and share with each other their own experiences of the vagaries of the human heart in a story cycle that is in turn melancholy, playful, wise and heart-wrenching. The tales reveal each traveler's inner landscape and provide an illuminating Buddhadeva Bose (1908?74), one of the most celebrated Bengali writers of the twentieth century, was a central figure in the Bengali modernist movement. Bose wrote numerous novels, short story collections, plays, essays, and volumes of poetry. He was also the acclaimed translator of Baudelaire, Hölderin, and Rilke into Bengali. Bose was awarded the prestigious Padma Bhushan in 1970.

My Kind of Girl

My kind of girl

রাত ভ'রে বৃষ্টি

When the Time is Right

The Love Letter and Other Stories

Buddhadeba Basura racanāsaṃgraha

Buddhadeva Bose’s greatest novel When the Time Is Right is a grand family saga set in Calcutta during the last two decades of British rule. Of Rajen Mitra’s five lovely daughters; it is the youngest—the beautiful; intelligent Swati—who is the apple of her father’s eye. As she grows from an impetuous; spirited child to a lonely young woman; Swati is witness to the upheavals and joys of the Mitra family even as the country slides towards the promise of independence and the inevitability of war. Anxious to ensure that his daughters find suitable husbands; Rajen-babu realizes it is only a matter of time before his favourite child too must leave home. While the boorish entrepreneur Prabir Majumdar decides that she will make him a fitting wife; Swati finds herself increasingly drawn to Satyen; the young professor who introduces her to a world of books and the heady poetry of Tagore and Coleridge. First published in Bengali as Tithidore in 1949; When the Time Is Right is a moving tale of a family and a nation.

When the Time Is Right

Buddhdeb basur racanasangraha

Buddhadeva Bose belonged to that generation of Bengali writers of the thirties and forties who fought tooth and nail to escape the all-pervading influence of Rabindranath Tagore to establish their personal idioms. He succeeded, but the fascination, admiration, and awe of the older poet remained. He twice visited Shantiniketan with his family, once in 1938 and then in the summer of 1941, invited by the poet himself. The younger poet, who in youth rebelled against him, now worshipped him and truly loved him. The title of this memoir Sab Peyechhir Deshe (‘The land where I found it all’) says it all. He intended to give this book personally to Rabindranath as a gift of his deep appreciation, but, sadly, by the time the book came out of the press, Rabindranath had passed away. And what had been conceived as a gift of gratitude now turned into an elegy, a younger poet’s homage to his Master. This book has been ever a favourite with Bengali readers, and constitutes an invaluable addition to the study of Tagore and his life.

The Land Where I Found It All

Jenny Offill

Thomas Kennedy

John King

James Scudamore

Matt Bell

Matt Ryan

Rebecca Wolff

Paul-Victor Winters

Charles Berret

Lisa Ortiz

Jessie van Eerden

Kelli Agodon

Renee Ashley

Anne Baney

Thomas Bonfiglio

Neil Boyack

Rebecca Chew

Vida Cross

Walter Cummins

Deborah Hall

Jody Handerson

Cassie Hay

Mark Hillringhouse

Line-Maria Lång

Leslie Miller

Ceridwen Morris

Ankur Parikh

J. D. Reid

Susan Rothbard

Jena Salon

Arunava Sinha

Karen Smyers

Charles Wyatt

Refrigerator Mothers

This Is An Unconventional Interpretation Of The Mahabharata With Yudhisthir As The Hero. It Seeks To Emphasie That The Relevance Of This Epic Extends Beyond Limitations Of Time, And That The Underlying Philosophy Of The Classic Can Be Explored, Again And Again, To Find New Truths Emerging Each Time.

A Study of the Mahabharat of Vyas

The Book of Yudhisthir

Buddhadeva Bose

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