BANGLA GOLPO-BENGALI STORIES

Bibhutibhusan Bandopadhaya’s adventure classic- CHANDER PAHAR or ‘Mountain of the Moon’.

First episode of a total of six episodes. It is early 1900s. Shankar, a not so ordinary Bengali lad seeks a life extraordinary: He journeys to then British East Africa, to work for Uganda Railways. This is the story of his adventures in Africa.

Episode artwork is by Gautam Karan. More pictures by Gautam’da at we-and-our-world.blogspot.com/

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Interesting insights into and factoids about people and places in CHANDER PAHAR;  http://banglagolpopodcast.blogspot.com/

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Premendra Mitra’s  BHASHA- A tale spun by Ghonada- the ‘Dada’s Dada’ of Bengali literature.

Background music to this episode by Saurav Mitra (http://fractalss.podbean.com).

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Hemendrakmar Ray’s “Bhuter Raja!”. A bone-chilling ghost story set in pre-independence India.

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Abanindranath Tagore’s SHILADITYA. This is the first story from “RAJ-KAHINI”-tales of the kings of Rajasthan. This is a classic Bengali fairy tale.

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Bibhutibhusan Bandopadhaya’s BOU-CHONDI’R MAATH. Bengal is sometimes a young girl, sometimes a bashful village belle; This story is more poetry than prose.

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Shibram Chakraborty’s ” Howrah-Amta Line’e Durghotona!! All the drama and action takes place on board Martins’ Light Rail on the 2.0 Ft narrow gauge train line running from Howrah to Amta! Fleeing son, pursuant father and a train guard seeped in mystery-novels. It is a potent combination for the absurd and hilarity!!

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Rabindranath Tagore’s KABULIWALA: On the surface we are all so different; but most human relationships are surprisingly familiar.

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Sukumar Ray’s DRIGHANGCHU: A tale of nonsense, fantasy, farce.. and fun.

Part 1 of ” Duibar-Sukumar”

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Sharatchandra Chattopadhayas’ MOHESH: one of the best short stories in bengali literature. A story that tugs at the heartstrings, appeals to depths and corners of your being, you never knew existed.

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Rajshekar Basus’ POROSHPATHOR. A modern day fantasy about  a simple man finding a philosophers’ stone/poroshpathor accidentally.

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Leela Majumders’ PENETI’TE. A supernatural tale of benevolent ghosts.

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