On the occasion of International Mother Language Day, this is the perfect time to celebrate the beauty and richness of the Bangla language. One way you can do so is by diving into Bangla literature, ...

For the last seven years Santanu Chowdhury has been trying to preach the gospel of e-books. He’s gone around College Street, Kolkata’s legendary Boi-para or neighbourhood of books, meeting Bengali ...

If someone asks me what I have achieved in this long stay-at-home situation, I will say that I have relished the rich and exciting works of Bengali wordsmiths! During this time at home, I have ...

Who should win Nobel Prize for literature 2022? Here is a list of 11 authors to choose from. Kolkata: Reclaiming the definition of what is generally known as an “E-book”, two technocrats and a digital ...

Bangla Academy was established to enrich Bangla literature and the body of knowledge available in Bangla by encouraging research and publication in the language. The academy started its journey in ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. By now, it’s an old joke: Molière’s Bourgeois Gentilhomme discovers that he has been speaking something called ...

Some 1,000 km inland from Sydney, over the Blue Mountains, past the trees that drink the tributaries of the Darling River, there stands a little, red mosque. It marks where the desert begins. The ...

Sustained social turbulence in Bangladesh seems to have adversely impacted the publishing industry in Kolkata with sales of books of Bengali authors on both sides of the border and count of 'floating' ...

Renowned Bengali writer and translator Enakshi Chatterjee passed away on Tuesday in a hospital in Delhi due to Covid-related complications, family sources said. She was 86. Born in 1934 to a family of ...

The illustrator and online sensation on his first book, his youth spent in Kolkata, what ‘Bangaliana’ means to him, and more If you are a Bengali, you know there are quite a few idiosyncrasies that ...