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 ...

What led the Bengali literary establishment to ignore one of the very best writers in their language when it came to awards?

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: ...

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 ...

In late 2013, in a book titled Of Ghosts and Other Perils: Troilakyanath Mukhopadhyay, critic-translator Arnab Bhattacharya brought a few stories by the Bengali writer Trailokyanath Mukhopadhyay into ...