Do you folks have some recommendations regarding Bengali books from contemporary authors?
Some of my preferred genres:
- Fantasy: like A Song of Ice and Fire or Harry Potter in English
- Politics: on things like politics in West Bengal, geopolitics.
- Sexuality: I have heard that there is a book called "যৌনতা ও বাঙালি" (tr: Sexuality and Bengalis)
- Philosophy: about things like politics, and especially about freedom, equality and the Enlightenment
- Historical fiction: something along the lines of the work of Himadrikishore Dasgupta
- History: anything
- Romance: the setting of the story being between 1970-present, but ideally 2000-present. Preferably about people in their late 20s or early 30s than teenage romances
- Fiction set outside the region of Bengal (including West Bengal, Bangladesh, Assam or Tripura) or South Asia
It doesn't matter whether the author is based in West Bengal, Bangladesh, Tripura or outside South Asia; as long as the book is in Bengali.
by Canailte