Decolonising Bengali Literature in the Age of the Internet
While the Internet has opened up the Bengali literary space by removing barriers of entry, it has also reduced engagements in some cases to LOL and TROLL
Saubhik De Sarkar
Saubhik De Sarkar is a Bengali poet and translator based in Alipurdar, West Bengal. He published his first book of poems ‘Sheet O Bayosandhir Haspatal’ in 1995. His poetry collections include ‘Ekti Mridu Laal Rekha’, ‘Jatrabari’, ‘Dakhalsutra’, ‘Anugato Buffer’. He has translated Saadat Hasan Manto, Federico Garcia Lorca, Julio Cortázar , Roberto Bolaño, Namdeo Dhasal, Martin Espada and Rudramurthy Cheran into Bengali. He is the recipient of ‘Kabita Pakshik Award’, ‘Mallar Award’, ‘Mallika Sengupta Award’, ‘Shaluk Award’ and participated in Sangam House International Writers Residency Programme in 2019.
