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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Khondakar Ashraf Hossain made waves with Teen Romoni'r Qasida, his seminal poetical work, quite some years back. And since then he has gone on to write not only substantive poetry but also purposeful ...

The Medieval period in Bengal was noteworthy for its amazing religious syncretism, with the fusion of Shaiva, Shakta, and Vaishnava cults with regional folk traditions. It also witnessed the blending ...

“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash,” musician Leonard Cohen once said. Poetry is indeed an emotion, and the lyrical verses can soothe the mind.

The songs and poems by Rabindranath Tagore have always been a part of every Bengali’s life. The anxious, restless soul finds solace in the harmony of the tune, beat, tempo and rhythm of Rabindra ...

Sourav Chakraborty has released his fourth book of poems, 'Khabar Achhe' with almost twenty years of poems compiled in the book. Thirty six poems have been included in this hard-bound book. Along with ...