A Bengali’s first love, a Bengali’s first thought, a Bengali’s first friend ---- has always been books! When it comes to books, Bengalgets nostalgic. But in this fast-paced, complex urban life, who finds time to roam the city to choose books? That’s why book fairs
How did Namit Chaturvedi, Class IV student of Birla High feel speaking to Ruskin Bond and Devdutt Pattanaik This year, I went to the Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet at Victoria Memorial. There were two parts in which the show was held; one, in Son-Et-Lumiere and
USA based author Lopa Banerjee shares books and memories, she once picked up at Kolkata Book Fair, and misses the sea of humanity on a book trail Year 2006. In a mildly comforting, breezy late January afternoon, I was wading through a sea of unknown faces
As an author and also an avid book lover and reader, I can only say Kolkata Book Fair lost its sheen long back! Where is that human touch these days, like we had when, well known authors rubbed shoulders with avid readers and youngsters? I
When I was a school kid my treasured essay-writing was ‘My Favourite Freedom Fighter’ or ‘Amar Priyo Swadhinota Songrami,’ in both English and Bengali. I always wrote about my preferred hero Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, which I believe many Bengali students still do. I waited
Sanjukta Dutta is a teacher with Timpany school, Vishakhapatnam and is passionate about dancing It was Basant Panchami, Saraswati Puja in Kolkata. Piu, a faculty at a college, was getting ready to attend puja at her college. Standing in front of her cupboard checking for a
Uma Rajan is a senior teacher and co-ordinator with Birla High School, Kolkata Aaj bosonto esho…aaj dakhina duar kholaa The gentle nip in the air, the fragrance of the soft wind, the blossoming of flowers in a multitude of hues --- all herald the onset of spring.
The intellectual hemisphere is an exclusively male domain where females are strictly prohibited, or so thought those who branded author Ashapurna Devi a ‘kitchen writer,’ who tried every possible way to downplay the importance of her writing. But someone of her stature never bothered to
Asha Bhatia is an Indian journalist, who has worked in Dubai for over three decades. She paints an interesting modern picture of life and times in Dubai in her recently published book “Life in the Twinkle of an Eye – Dubai: A Hundred Years in
The Broken Home and Other Stories is a lovely compilation of two novellas and six short stories of none other than Rabindranath Tagore. Attempting to translate Tagore has been done down generations, but it is definitely one of the most difficult tasks to translate emotions