The process of reading is consummated in rereading. It is sure to deepen and broaden our understanding of the work and its author, and quite possibly of ourselves as well. It is forty years since my ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Raveena Tandon Apologises to Yami Gautam After Fangirling Over Aditya Dhar’s Dhurandhar From box-office records to heart-melting fan moments, Dhurandhar continues its winning streak. After its ...