Lifestyle /
Published 27.07.22
‘He had been sitting cross-legged on the Bund, gazing into the distance day and night…’
An excerpt from Aruna Chakravarti’s ‘The Mendicant Prince’, a fictionalised account of the Bhawal Sannyasi case...
By Aruna Chakravarti
News /
Published 21.01.22
West Bengal education minister Bratya Basu new chairman of Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi
By Our Correspondent
News /
Published 19.01.22
Bengali comic strip pioneer Narayan Debnath passes away
He was suffering from low haemoglobin count and renal ailments...
By Our Special Correspondent
in Howrah
States /
Published 27.08.21
Sikkim official bags award for Nepali novel
S.D. Dhakal has been awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award 2020 for his novel Kirayako Kokh (Rented Womb) that was published in 2018 ...
By Rajeev Ravidas
in Siliguri
North East /
Published 13.05.21
Assam author Homen Borgohain dies
Widely considered the voice of the downtrodden and a conscience-keeper of the society for his writings, he suffered a fall on Tuesday night and was rushed to the hospital ...
By Umanand Jaiswal
in Guwahati
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Culture /
Published 18.04.21
I have to live after I die: Sankar
A candid chat with Mani Sankar Mukherjee, newly awarded the Sahitya Akademi Puraskar, about his writerly peregrinations...
By Anasuya Basu
Jharkhand /
Published 31.08.20
Covid: nurse who braved the odds
Tala Tudu recalls her fear and anxiety after testing positive for the virus, set to return to work next week...
By Jayesh Thaker
in Jamshedpur
North East /
Published 23.04.20
Teacher faces FIRs over slur
The poem, Moi Oxomiya, narrates how the Mughals, full of self-esteem and proud of their military might, had entered Assam to conquer it...
By Neelim Akash Kashyap
in Nalbari
Jharkhand /
Published 29.01.20
Two-day lit meet to start in February
The meet will be inaugurated by Sahitya Akademi Award winning writer Mridula Garg...
By Achintya Ganguly
in Ranchi
West Bengal /
Published 07.11.19
Nabaneeta Dev Sen passes away
Dev Sen had announced she was suffering from cancer...
By Our Special Correspondent
in Calcutta
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