Comedy is one genre which exists in every form of art and every kind of culture. The specifics of comedy in each culture are different. In literature too, comedy has always existed as a unique form of story telling. In Bengali literature, the history of
Janet MacLeod Trotter is a British author who has more than 20 historical novels to her credit including a series on the Tea Planters of Bengal and Assam under the British era. She will be signing her latest book in Kolkata on 22nd November. She
Ruma Chakravarti is a blogger and translator of Bengali prose and poetry, who lives in Australia. Three volumes of her translations of Rabindranath Tagore’s work were published at the Kolkata Book Fair in 2013. Another volume was published in 2016. Ruma’s translations of a collection
Kolkata is a city that has often been a muse to Nobel Laureates and renowned international poets. But hardly ever the city has witnessed an International Poetry meet where poets from across the globe descended on this intellectual capital of India to make every moment
Moinak Dutta is a published author and poet Sneha and her father went into the dining hall first. It was adjacent to the double storied hut they were staying in. No one dared to venture to the hills during this season, but Sneha’s father had a
Shei Shomoy was a trendsetter. In this award-winning book, poet-novelist Sunil Gangopadhyay had pushed himself beyond the frontiers of a ‘well-made novel’ into the fascinating world of family and period history, reportage, travel narrative, folklore and ethnography. He had integrated local folklores of Bengal into
Noted expatriate poet, memoirist and translator Lopamudra Banerjee’s latest volume of poetry and memoir Woman and Her Muse was launched by Intercultural Poetry and Performance Library (IPPL) on August 25, 2018 at a memorable programme marked by academic discussions and spontaneous poetry-reading at ICCR. Gautam
“Yes, I wanted to kill the governor. Unfortunately, I failed…. He is the living image and the supreme symbol of a government, and an administrative system, which has enslaved my country and kept it in chains. I wanted to attack that symbol….”, fiery words that
The iconic College Street Coffee House building of Kolkata has stood for decades as a witness to several historical, cultural and political revolutions. However, what many of us are not aware of, is that the building also harbours a strong literary connect, that of housing
SOLACE With light fading towards darkness of the evening, silence crawled up the abysm. Indrani sat in her room all alone engulfed in darkness, preoccupied with her thoughts. Her sorrow was so deep that she could not get away from it. She even lacked the strength