From field to field and field – throughout the afternoon in sky and sky of Asia Are grazing the vultures. Man sees market outpost settlement – soundless fields Of the vulture. Where extreme silence of the field is standing next to the sky As if another sky, – there the vultures descend once in succession … Continue reading Vulture ...more

A short story from Abanindranath Tagore's collection Pathey-Bipathey (Ways and Wanderings). This translation was published in a 2018 issue of Six Seasons Review from Dacca. ...more

A symbolist prose poem by Abanindranath Tagore from his book of short stories titled Pathey-Bipathey (Ways and Wanderings) ...more

This is a translation of a story from Raj Kahini, the very popular 1905 Bengali literary classic, written by Abanindranath Tagore. The book features nine tales retold from The Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan by James Todd (1829, 1832). Abanindranath's stories, written at the inception of the Bengali nationalist swadeshi movement, present a psychology of subjective mysticism in their treatment of clan oral history, with an intent to stimulate alternate approaches and ideals for post-modern and anti-colonial resistance. The translations have been made with a careful eye to the subtleties of literary use and subjective nuance. A downloadable version of the book will be available shortly. ...more

This is a translation of an excerpt from Abanindranath Tagore's Apan Katha (Self-Story), exemplifying a phenomenological writing practice. Translated from Bengali. ...more

Naloke is a retelling of the life of the Buddha in imagistic language by Abanindranath Tagore. Abanindranath was an artist who used language to "write pictures" in his characterization. Naloke is the story of a little clairvoyant boy whom a band of rishis adopt and who envisions the major outer and inner incidents of the Buddha's life. This is a single chapter from the book. The book will be available for download. ...more