Bengali Culture

Some Links

Here are a few websites we find ourselves going to often.  We are not connected with any of these, and we are not attesting to the correctness or appropriateness of all the information; we have just found them useful, interesting, or comforting.

• রবীন্দ্র-রচনাবলী maintained by Society for Natural Language Technology Research (Department of Information Technology & Electronics, Govt. of West Bengal)

• বিচিত্রা, an archive of Rabindranath Tagore's works including photocopies of all manuscripts, maintained by School of Cultural Texts and Records, Jadavpur University

• Tagoreweb, an archive of Rabindranath Tagore's works with links to popular performances

• kolkata-online, an eclectic collection of material pertaining to the city and the broader region

• সুকুমার রায় শিশু সাহিত্য সমগ্র, an archive of most of the writings of Sukumar Ray

• বাংলা কবিতা, an archive of some information on, and the works of, a large number of poets who have written in Bengali

• পরবাস, a popular Bengali online webzine

• কল্পবিশ্ব, a Bengali science fiction and fantasy webzine

• GetBengal, an information service style ongoing collection of articles/news stories on various topics, focusing on positive essence rather than sensational headlines

• উইকিসংকলন, a free online library arranged as a wiki, maintained by community effort, and organized as part of the Wikimedia project

Some Musings

• A reflective piece Rudra wrote some years ago, when considering starting a Bengali podcast

Some Episodes

In many of our episodes, we have made some remarks on some particular litterateur or other, or their specific works, or Bengali literature in general.

Although we claim no particular erudition, we have worked hard to research appropriate sources, and also to look deep inside our hearts, in preparing  these comments; we hope you find them of some value.  They are listed (and the scripts provided where available) on our "Episodes with Special Info" page in our Episode Guides.