In 2006, on my way back home from Mexico via Paris, I had a week's stopover in Stockholm. After long hours' of air travel, I was exhausted. I was one of the non-Europeans who were stopped by customs ...

The only major Bengali poet to have come from the rural proletariat and the first one to have raised—in public—the demand for the total independence of colonial India in 1922, Kazi Nazrul Islam ...

These are the years of anthologies. Everywhere you look, there's a new book out, compiling sleuths of writings that are accompanied by a string of adjectives in their blurbs. If the editor or ...

Some small wonders of life are its ironic surprises. My participation in this symposium is just such a surprise for me. At first, I was taken aback when my dear friend Amit Chaudhuri, whose writings I ...

Celebrations were held online Saturday to mark two anniversaries in Bengali poetry -- the birth of Rabindranath Tagore and the publishing of Kazi Nazrul Islam’s revolutionary work “Bidrohi.” The ...

Eminent Bengali poet Joy Goswami said he looks forward to the literary creations of poets of later generations including those not prominent. Inaugurating the Apeejay Bangla Sahitya Utsob (ABSU) here ...

This is an edited version of the conversation that took place on stage with the poet, Kiriti Sengupta, on 16 March 2023, at Mulk Raj Anand Auditorium, Department of English and Cultural Studies, ...

Poetry is everywhere today. From the traditional medium of books to the Instagram stories to the cafes frequented by performance poets, poetry has never enjoyed greater access. But a profusion does ...

Vidya Balan, who is basking in the success of Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3, has always confessed her love for Bengali Cinema and culture. Taking her love for the language, the actress learnt one of the most ...