Visva-Bharati on Friday evening organised a lecture by Rajya Sabha member Vinay Sahasrabuddhe and invited fresh criticism from teachers and students, who charged vice-chancellor Bidyut Chakrabarty wit...

The year 2022 marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the diplomatic relations between Japan and India. Japan and India signed a peace treaty and established diplomatic relations in April,...

A little over one hundred years ago, on December 23, 1921, in the early hours of the morning, the Visva-Bharati Parishad Sabha was officially established by Rabindranath Tagore in the vicinity of Amra...

The experience of watching Kolkata Playmakers’ latest venture Chitrakar (a dramatization of Tirthankar Chanda’s stage adaption of Tagore’s short story by the same title) is...

Reverend Father J Felix Raj, the vice-chancellor of St Xavier’s University, Calcutta, on Thursday delivered the first Christmas lecture 2021 at Santiniketan’s Parasmani, a centre for resea...

This ridiculous looking headgear draws incessant complaints, whining and even crying. But despite all that, you will find children being bundled off to school in sweaters and monkey caps during those ...

Indians are generally obedient and nationalistic. This is why they oblige the powers that be when the latter ask anything in the name of the nation. Yet, there can be no lexical or academic definition...

The Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize will be awarded for the year 2021 and 2022 together, organiser and publisher Peter Bundalo said. The annual award, won by Journalist-author Raj Kamal Jha in 202...

A group of Chhau dancers on Wednesday night staged Balmiki Pratibha, the dance drama by Rabindranath Tagore, through the traditional folk art at Barabazar Rajbari complex in Purulia. Giasuddin Ansari...

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...