Poet Sarat Mukhopadhyay died early on Tuesday following a cardiac arrest. He was 91. He left behind his only son Sayan Mukhopadhyay. His wife Bijaya Mukhopadhayay, a Sanskrit scholar and poet, had di...

Bengali poet and writer Sarat Mukhopadhyay, a part of the post-Modernist poets' group along with Sunil Gangopadhyay and Shakti Chattopadhyay, died in the early hours of Tuesday after a cardia...

When the pandemic arrived unannounced and locked us up in the confines of our home, the world experienced a paramount shift in the way it functioned. In what was a boon and a bane, everything and ever...

Karuna Ezara Parikh, whose novel The Heart Asks Pleasure First released last year, has been writing poetry far longer. She recalls writing her first poem at the tender age of six-seven but never thoug...

Two of the postcards do not carry any pictures. Instead, they carry the texts of Nazrul’s letters, both revealing his dire financial straits. One was addressed to the landlord of his 15/4 Shyamb...

We often speak about the mellifluous quality of Bengali, especially in poetry. Is there any Latin American language that is similar? It is Portuguese. The cadences and the musical rhythm of Portugues...

I challenge William Wordsworth, whose 250th birth anniversary was celebrated last year, to live in present-day Calcutta and produce a single line of the poetry that he wrote. We know how much of his ...

Interdisciplinary artiste Sujoy Prosad Chatterjee has embarked upon his maiden digital short film titled Home. The film is mostly a social experiment with poetry and is being directed by Sujoy and men...

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Although published before the #MeToo movement came up and opened avenues for discussions on gender in the popular consciousness in ways unprecedented, Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods by Tishani Dosh...