IN THE NEWS

After the smashing success of the first edition, the 2nd edition of online bilingual (Bengali & English) magazine URHALPOOL (www.urhalpool.com) is out.

The 2nd edition is even bigger, better and has contents covering more variety. Following are the highlights –

- Urhalpool Readers Ruchira Mondal's short story & Indranil Bakshi's poem
- Series novel from Sunil Gangopadhyay
- Series poetry-novel from Tasleema Nasreen
- Collection of short stories including a translated one from 2008 Pulitzer Prize winner Juno Diaz
- Interview from India’s most successful cricket captain Sourav “dada” Ganguly
- Special section on Feluda with interviews from Sandip Ray, Soumitra Chatterjee, Sabyasachi Chakroborty
- Full script of unpublished one-act play
- Interviews from film-star Prosenjit and multi-percussionist Bickram Ghosh (member of the Grammy award winning team for the album “Full Circle”)
- Special write-up from Nabaneeta Deb Sen, Sarat Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Sunil Gangopadhyay
- Poetry from Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffman
- Remaining part of the interview of Prof. Noam Chomsky
- Poetry from Carolyn Forché, Yousef Komunyakaa
- Goutam Ghoshe’s multimedia interview introducing his latest movie “KaalBela”

…..and many more

Also for the literary minded in Kolkata and vicinity URHALPOOL printed version is available in circulation, printed and marketed by “Punoscho Prokashoni”, Kolkata


We are proud to let you know that URHALPOOL, a contemporary Bengali-English bilingual webzine is now live. This is the first ever bi-lingual web magazine, a cultural melting pot, where both sides of the Atlantic and both sides of river Ganga infuse identically.

Features of our inaugural edition :

  • Sunil Gangopadhyay’s New series novel Smritir Alo Andharay.
  • Taslima Nasrin’s new series Bandini.
  • Italian Writer Alessander Corsini’s series Riso Bianco.
  • Noam Chomsky’s series of video interview.
  • Major poets from West Bengal, BanglaDesh, & USA.
  • Interview of film director Goutam Ghose.
  • Pulitzer Prize Winner Yusef Komunyakaa's poem.
  • Ex-US Consul General Henry Jardin's Article.
  • US Kolkata Literary Exchange(USKLE) delegates Chris Merrill, Joy Harjo, Bob Holman wrote.
  • Debaroh Baker writes in memory of Tarapada Roy.
  • Subodh Sarkar, Mallika Sengupta, Mandakranta Sen, Srijato, Joydeb Basu - all contemporary poets from Kolkata contributed.