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 ...

Whenever readers think of Akhteruzzaman Elias (1943-1997), his novels and short stories immediately come to mind. He wrote only two novels—Khoabnama (1996), centred on the Tebhaga Movement, and ...

This write-up describes my singular experience in translating Bengali short stories into English. However, all literary translations deal with certain common problems—of idiolect and dialect, or the ...

Bengali writer Binayak Banerjee is one of 15 participants from as many countries across the world to be selected for the prestigious International Writing Program (IWP) at University of Iowa. KOLKATA: ...

Debesh Roy, who died in Kolkata on Thursday, May 14, at the age of 83, was never a writer for the masses. On the contrary fellow writers labelled him an “author of authors”. He resisted being called ...

Nilanjan Bandyopadhyay's Six Seasons: Poetry and Calligraphy, part of the Bengal Biennale, explores the natural rhythm of life through Bengali calligraphy and poetry. Inspired by Japanese aesthetics ...

Students from schools across Kolkata attended the workshop and learned to stylise the letters and get a sense of the origins of the Bengali alphabet Interesting creatives of the events, displaying old ...