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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...