Bengali literature written by famous and prolific authors would be the right step towards exploring the most rich, regional ...

On the occasion of International Mother Language Day, this is the perfect time to celebrate the beauty and richness of the Bangla language. One way you can do so is by diving into Bangla literature, ...

The Bengali writers are sure going global nowadays. The move might have come late but it's nonetheless a step in the right direction. The Bengali writers are sure going global nowadays. The move might ...

Who should win Nobel Prize for literature 2022? Here is a list of 11 authors to choose from. Kolkata: Reclaiming the definition of what is generally known as an “E-book”, two technocrats and a digital ...

For the last seven years Santanu Chowdhury has been trying to preach the gospel of e-books. He’s gone around College Street, Kolkata’s legendary Boi-para or neighbourhood of books, meeting Bengali ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. By now, it’s an old joke: Molière’s Bourgeois Gentilhomme discovers that he has been speaking something called ...

What if you had to read a Kakababu or Feluda story and get marks for reviewing it as part of a test in school? Saswat Banerjee, a Class IX student, said: “I’ve been a member of the club since Class VI ...

Growing up in our part of the world in the second half of the 20th century, and fed on a diet of popular fiction, comic books, TV "nature" documentaries and Hollywood films, who amongst us did not ...

Renowned Bengali writer and translator Enakshi Chatterjee passed away on Tuesday in a hospital in Delhi due to Covid-related complications, family sources said. She was 86. Born in 1934 to a family of ...