Banalata Sen

Banalata Sen is the most famous poem in modern Bengali, and Jibanananda Das’s name is now almost inseparable from it. This collection brings together that title poem and the others around it, all from a poet who wrote slowly, quietly, and with an attention to image that few other Bengali poets have matched.

Read it once and you will probably read it many times again. That is what most Bengali readers end up doing.