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About This Application
Jatayu was created to help people with limited fluency in Bengali script or vocabulary enjoy popular Bengali literature while gradually improving their own reading ability — pairing the original text with Roman transliteration and English translation as a self-learning aid.
Copyright
All stories featured here remain the copyrighted property of their original authors and publishers. This project has not sought or received prior permission from the rights holders, and no infringement is intended. The goal is purely to introduce more readers to Bengali literature — ideally growing the audience for Bengali books, in print and online.
If you are a publisher, literary estate, or rights holder and would like content removed, please email indicvoices@gmail.com from an official/verifiable address, mentioning the specific story or stories. We will remove the content promptly — typically within 5 business days — no questions asked.
Cost of Building This
Building and maintaining this application takes real time, effort, and money — including the huge cost of using AI models to convert Bengali stories into Roman transliteration and English translation. This is entirely self-funded; the creator is investing personal savings to make Bengali literature more accessible. There is no charge to readers today. In the future, the app may carry Google Ads to help offset these running costs — but the creator is not asking readers for money directly.
Partnership
If you're a publisher or rights holder, we'd welcome a conversation rather than a takedown. With proper licensing, this could grow into a commercial venture — more stories, more authors, and potentially a paid subscription — with publishers as genuine partners in the effort, not just permission-granters. Please write to indicvoices@gmail.com to discuss.
Attribution
Deep gratitude to the original authors, translators, and publishers whose work makes this project possible. This platform exists only to celebrate and spread Bengali literature, never to diminish the value of the original work.
Happy reading. 📖
'...the boys and girls were able to read their mother-tongue in this Roman-Bengali much quicker than the ordinary children learning it through the Bengali alphabets.' (A Roman Alphabet for India — Suniti Kumar Chatterji, linguist, educationist and litterateur. Journal of the Department of Letters, Calcutta University Press, 1935)
What do R, W, T mean?
R — Roman transliteration available
W — Word-by-word meaning available
T — Full English translation available
On book covers: solid = all stories have it, pale = some stories have it, grey = none do.