The biggest international literary festival is also the biggest occasion for Bangladeshi poets writing in Bengali to get together and stand on a shared platform to interact directly with lovers of ...

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 ...

Sometime in the late nineties I made my first acquaintance with a group of poets writing in Bengali, who were my introduction to the turbulent undercurrents of Bengali verse-writing which like a ...

Like every year, West Bengal Poetry Academy organised Kobita Utsav — the biggest Bengali poetry festival — in the city recently. This year, with simultaneous events going on at five different venues ...

KOLKATA: The outside world learnt about Bengali poetry through the English translation of Gitanjali, pointed out Gulzar while releasing a one of a kind anthology, Signposts, in New Delhi last month.

Gupta was born in 6 March, 1812, Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal. Ishwar Chandra Gupta was brought up in his uncle's house after the death of his mother. He spent most of his childhood in Kolkata. In the ...

Shortly after the evening fell, the event began, and the courtyard of Batighar became quite crowded. People of various ages had gathered there to listen to a discussion on a poetry book. It was not an ...

In October 1962, young poet Malay Roy Choudhury boarded the newly launched Janata Express at Patna. The train would stop in Delhi before it reached Calcutta – a rather tedious journey that would go on ...

How did the topography of southern Bangladesh enter the pages of Bengali literature? By topography I mean depiction of the region’s geography by invoking images of its most defining physical features: ...

New Delhi, Dec 15 (PTI) Eminent Bengali poet Joy Goswami will be given the 31st Moortidevi Award for the year 2017, a selection board meeting announced here today. The committee, headed by poet and ...