Swapnamoy Chakraborty’s style spans over a spectrum of tales. From grief, to gender, there is something in every story that deeply resonates. Readers come back to his work because of his ease with language, and it is this ease that Chaitali Sengupta captures in her translations of these six stories from the celebrated Bengali story-teller. This rendition in the Six Stories Series also contains an exclusive interview with the author himself, as he delves into his beginnings as a writer, readership in the modern world, and translation as a craft.