Urdu poet Rahat Indori, whose powerful and lucid poetry filled halls, connected with the young and old alike and lent itself to protests against oppression such as that against the new citizenship reg...

In the middle of an impassioned speech on a Friday night, Congress candidate Imran Pratapgarhi, a young shayar whose Urdu couplets have struck a chord among youths, broke down. “Main bahari nahi hoo...

The state celebrated World Tourism Day on Thursday, but Kenduli — a prominent tourist place situated 15km from here — continued to gasp for life. Kenduli, part of finance minister Sashi Bhusan Beh...

Many years later, as he sat down to pen his memoirs, Pablo Neruda was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to the sea. “The first time I stood before the sea, I was overwhelme...

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,...

Here’s a question for the readers of The Telegraph to bring up this morning over Coffee House adda.What do the following have in common: John Dryden, William Wordsworth, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Cecil ...

Amalkanti is a friend of mine,we were together at school.A more prosaic sentence cannot be constructed in English or in Bangla, the language in which it was first written. Nor can a more unexciting st...

What would Harivansh Rai Bachchan make of the fact that St Catharine’s, his old Cambridge College, has removed a bell from public display because of its likely association with the slave trade?Most ...

The Louvre Museum in Paris, which houses the legendary painting Mona Lisa, will now witness a documentary on Assamese poet Abani Chakraborty, who has been untraced since November 12, 1994. This is bei...

The turtle lives ’twixt plated decks/ Which practically conceal its sex,” says Ogden Nash. “I think it clever of the turtle/ In such a fix to be so fertile.” This comic pithiness is also revea...