Plabon Jol ( The deluge) is a creative fiction in the background of Narmada Bachao Andolon, a three decade long non violent movement which resisted the raising of the height of Sardar Sarovar Dam and then, when the construction could not be stopped...
A collection of selected Bengali poems.
A collection of short stories for children and young adults.
A collection of Bengali prose.
Hindi translation of '
Mahanadi'. Translated by Lipika Saha. Published by Setu Prakashan. This book is also available in
English and ...
Odiya translation of '
Mahanadi'. Translated by Khirod Parida. Published by Odisha Sahitya Akademi. This novel is also available in
English and...
'Mahuldihar Din' , originally published in 1996 is the first novel by Anita Agnihotri. This novel has been translated in
Mahuldiha Days and
Dagar i Mahuldiha. This new hardcover edition is published in...
A gentle, vivid memoir about growing up in the sixties and seventies in Kolkata. This collection is a prequel to '
Rod Bataser Path'.
A collection of recently written essays on the current scenario of the state, politics, society and time, covering the pandemic, economic crisis and the nonchalance of the state about the common citizens.
Uiyirthezhal is the Tamil translation of the novel ' Akalbodhan'. The novel titled
'The Awakening' was translated from Bengali to Englishby Nandini Guha. ...
A collection of poetry , published in 2023
A collection of freshly minted short stories for children —where trees decide to go for a vacation, a train gets stuck in floodwater, a special aunt who stays in a lone island comes to visit little Doel and a tiny cloud decides to explore the...
A young girl's tryst with literature starts in her childhood. Gradually she has to go out of the state and continues her struggle to retain her relationship with her language. The novel depicts the journey back to her roots and the language.
'Palasher Ayu', published by Patrabharati is a collection of sixteen short stories, most of them written amidst the pandemic that kept the author mostly confined for nearly two years. Tender memories from the past, present day anxiety along with...
'Batas, Sada Posakher Poolice' (Wind, the plainclothes policeman) is a collection of forty-two Bangla poems, published in 2022 by Samakriti.
'Amar Pratibader Bhasha' ( My Language Of Protest) is a collection of political essays penned in recent years. This collection contains twenty-three disquisitions reflecting the author's opinion on currently raging political and social issues.
For centuries, the Agarias are engaged in salt farming.They leave there home and stay in the desert for eight long months every year. But how do they really survive? How are they? After ninety years of the Dandi march, 'Labanakta' (The Saline)...
In this novel, the tale of the river is told through the people living on the banks of the Mahanadi. Characters like Tularam Dhuru, Malati Gond, Neelkantha, Bhanu Shitulia, Parvati and others might never meet each other, but the story of their...
Mahakantar ( The Great Forest) is the latest published novel by Anita Agnihotri. Written as a sequel to her epic novel Mahanadi, Mahakantar does not connect to the earlier narrative but complements it, putting together images to form the idea of...
'Rod Bataser Path' ( translated as the Sun and Wind Avenue) is the memoirs of Anita Agnihotri of the time she spent as a member of the Indian Administrative Service. From 1980 to 2016 — a long span of 36 years has been captured in this book in over...
The stories in this collection have been penned down in recent years, assimilating revelations from personal experiences and the essences of various experiences of life. This collection dwells on the conflicts of life arising from human...
'Chhotoder Golpomela' is a collection containing a bunch of new stories for children. The vanishing people of the Tarajher hills, the dacoit's lost daughter, the tiger who eats rice sitting in the kitchen of the aunt and the vivid description of...
'The Sickle', published by Juggernaut in 2021, is translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha. The original novel,'
Kaste', was published in 2019 by...
Srestha Kavita is a selection of the best poems by Anita Agnihotri, published in 2019 by Dey's Publishing.
A day in the life of Mangal Taram is a collection of select stories of Anita Agnihotri, translated by Dr Rani Ray from Bengali. These stories represent the entire range of short stories written by the author in course of the last three and half...
Desher Bhitor Desh is a unique collection of essays published by Anustup Prakashani in 2013. The essays bring out the reality of development in the Indian context in the form of field diaries and journals, through extensive travel by the...
Seventeen is a selection of seventeen short stories, the last one being titled 'Seventeen', translated by Arunava Sinha, published by Zubaan.
Kaste is a novel written in real time in the backdrop of drought prone Marathwada, on the lives of the migrant sugarcane labourers and the vulnerability of agriculture concluding in the farmer's march; published in 2019 by Dey's Publishing.
Mahanadi is an epic novel, which weaves the lives of people settled on both sides of the mighty river Mahanadi that originates in Chattisgarh and meets the Bay of Bengal near Jagatsinghpur, Odisha. Published by Dey's Publishing in 2015, the novel...
Panchashti Galpa contains fifty selected short stories from among the two hunded stories that Anita Agnihotri has penned down over three decades, published by Ananda Publishers in 2019.
