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With the passing of Professor Tony K. Stewart, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in Humanities Emeritus, the field of South ...
Ideated by Suman Mukhopadhyay, the film stirs thoughts that wander beyond Manik Bandyopadhyay’s original story, yet stay ...
As India celebrates Tagore’s 164th anniversary, his contributions beyond poetry often go unnoticed In the autumn of 1924, ...
When Narayan Sanyal wrote a book based on this incident, he named it Mrityorma Amritam, which in the Upanishads means “from ...
Sanghamitra Chakraborty’s Soumitra Chatterjee and His World starts with his birth in a north Calcutta home to a mother who is ...
Pride of place above the fireplace in the sitting room of our little house in distant Blighty is a painting from North Bengal ...
‘Sahityer Shera Somoy’ is a popular series currently up and running on Bengali television. The series features notable literary works, adapted for the small screen to entertain the audience.
Like every year, the Festival has an interesting theme picking up from the roots of Bengali literature. Richa Agarwal, Chairperson of KCC, mentions, "What started out as a bold foray into the ...
Celebrating the life of Sanjida Khatun—scholar, musicologist, and co-founder of Chhayanaut—whose legacy spans across ...
Kolkata, The literary circle in Kolkata on Monday mourned the death of Daud Haider, an exiled Bangladeshi poet, in Berlin and ...
Baithakkhana literary festival in Kolkata celebrates 'the defeated' through speeches, debates, and performances by renowned Bengali artists.