I feel absolutely delighted that today we are celebrating not only the genre that I love the most in the world, that is children’s books, but also the legacy of the person who I will always love and...

That Nabaneeta was an exceptionally gifted person was clear to everyone who knew her. It is wonderful that on this sad occasion, there have been plentiful tributes to her exceptional literary talents,...

The historian, Romila Thapar, made some sharp observations on MK Gandhi’s relevance to modern times at an academic gathering at Cambridge University last week. She acknowledged that people today can...

A children’s writer recounted the works of her inspiration at Calcutta Book Fair on Thursday, her voice choking more than once.The speaker was Nandana Dev Sen and she was reminiscing about her mothe...

Nabaneeta Dev Sen, poet, novelist and academic, breathed her last at her south Calcutta home on Thursday evening. She was 81. Dev Sen had announced she was suffering from cancer.Her spontaneity, uniqu...

Ei mrityu upatyaka amar desh na. The line, rejecting a valley of death as one’s country, by Nabarun Bhattacharya with a portrait of a bloodied face by Wasim Kapoor formed the backdrop of a citizenâ€...