3/14/2023 0 Comments Premendra mitra all books pdfPart of the loot of five books I picked up was Mosquito and Other Tall Tales by Premendra Mitra, featuring his “legendary Ghanashyam Das – Ghana-da”, a narrator of “tall tales that strade the thin line between make-believe and truth, drawing upon science, history, geography to conjure up exotic locales, other worlds and peoples, their habits, lifestyles and languages.” When I asked I was looking for translations, she even helped. I reached minutes before the closing time, but the owner was gracious enough to let me browse for a bit. In Goa in November last year, I headed to the quaint but well-stocked and extremely well-maintained Literati Book Cafe in Bardez. To do this, I make sure to visit local bookstores wherever I am travelling, go to libraries and read up syllabi of Indian Literature at various universities. The one joy of curating a website that focuses on Indian literature is also the amazing literary gems, classics and otherwise, that one encounters in the process. A must-read classic of Bengali Literature The Context
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