In one part of the recently translated Spooky Encounters, Sumanta Banerjee chats with the picnicking ghostly Marx and Engels about Indian food in London:
“‘Fish-and-chips has almost disappeared from the scene. Its exclusive position has been now taken over by chicken-tikka-kebab!’
They glanced at each other in sheer astonishment and said, ‘Really?’
Moor spoke with his usual fervour: ‘We must get to taste your food. But can we find the genuine stuff here? Most likely we will have to go to youir Calcutta to sample them.‘”
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I am so very pleased to see this and would have happily used it as a preface to my essay ‘Marx in Calcutta’ in City. Seems like we have always been tempting Marx with Mishti Doi:
https://hutnyk.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/marx-in-calcuttacity2018.pdf
Trinketization 
Can you please post the title of the Bangla original?
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Sure, its “Bhooturey Molakat: Marx-er sangey adda-gultani” (2009)
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I’ve just this minute finished reading the book and am impressed to find it is translated by the woman who as a girl was Durga in Satyajit Ray’s “Panther Panchali”. Excellent to know she went on to do such things, since so many will have grieved for her on screen demise. Well, I did – and defy anyone to not shed a tear at the end of the first time they watch that film. This feels like a reprieve of sorts. – her name is Shampa Banerjee. Long life.
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Uma Das Gupta played the grown-up ‘Durga’. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0201871/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t4
Did Shampa Banerjee play a younger version of her?
I was more heartbroken with Durga’s death when I read the book (when I read it, me and my elder sister were roughly of the same age as the characters). Her on-screen death was just a rerun.
I am trying to locate a copy of the Bengali original of this book. Failing which, I have to settle for the English translation. :(
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