There was backlash to 'Chhaava' was from a section of Bengali academics, who took to social media alleging the film was ...

In these films, Soumitra played a hero who seemed to be Rabindranath himself as much as one of his literary heroes, an ideal ...

Bhanusimha was just 16 when he began exploring human emotions through the grand backdrop of divine interplay — a theme that ...

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living ...

The Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971 was not just a struggle fought on the battlefields, but a humanitarian crisis that ...

The book fair was not just an event for us, it was a reflection of our love for Bangla language and literature.

Translator Ipsa S has striven to maintain the taut, politically fraught atmosphere of the social milieu of Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay’s Bengali novel.

Sanjida Khatun, whose very essence was steeped in melody, whose breath carried the cadence of literature, and whose life ...

How do ghost voters sneak into the voter lists? It is truly spooky. Also spooky, it is only in West Bengal that ghost voters ...

Lee Kuan Yew's maxim that poetry was an unaffordable luxury was of its time. These days it is widely appreciated, and not ...

Women’s History Month may be coming to a close, but that doesn’t mean you have to stop celebrating women. Here are five women ...