Mallabarman, Adwaita

Adwaita Mallabarman (1914-1951) was born near the river Titash in the Comilla district of Bengal (now Bangladesh). He was an editor and writer until his death at age 37 from tuberculosis. "Titash Ekti Nadir Naam" (A River Called Titash) was published five years after his death. Kalpana Bardhan is a research associate at the University of California, Berkeley, Center for South Asian Studies. Her translation of Bengali short stories, "Of Women, Outcastes, Peasants, and Rebels", was published in 1990 by California.