Complex sentence: Besides Bengali and English she reads several languages, Hindi, Oriya, Assamese, French, German, Sanskrit, Hebrew, etc., and has recently retired as Professor of Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University, Calcutta.
Split into simpler sentences: Besides Bengali and English she reads several languages, including Hindi, Oriya, Assamese, French, German, Sanskrit, Hebrew, and others. She has recently retired as Professor of Comparative Literature at Jadavpur University, Calcutta.