Kurmali, one of the ancient languages of the indigenous tribes, is spoken in various states of India including West Bengal, Jharkhand, Odisha, Assam, Chhattisgarh and Bihar. A sizeable number of Kurmali people also reside in various parts of Bangladesh. Kurmali is the mother tongue of
Bishnu Dey emerged as a modernist poet when Bengal was going through tempestuous times of the ’40s. He has been a witness to the Independence Movement of India, to the destructions of World War II, the disastrous Bengal famine and the travails of partition. These
Durga Puja is the foremost socio-cultural festival in Bengal. As the countdown to the autumn festival begins, the puja spirit catches like wildfire and Bengalis go into a frenzy of celebrations. It all begins with the publication of ‘Puja Barshiki’ (annual puja periodicals), a tradition that heralds
No other language group reveres a writer as 250 million Bengali-speakers do Tagore. Shakespeare and Dickens don't come into the picture; the popularity of Burns in Scotland 100 years ago may be his nearest equivalent in Britain.” The above is an excerpt from a 2011 article in the widely
Imagine opening the pages of a book and seeing the strange sight of a 'Hansjaru', a creature that's a mix of a duck and a porcupine, or a ‘Bokochchhop, a mix of heron and tortoise, or a 'Hatimi', a fusion of elephant and whale, popping
Imagine opening the pages of a book and seeing the strange sight of a 'Hansjaru', a creature that's a mix of a duck and a porcupine, or a ‘Bokochchhop, a mix of heron and tortoise, or a 'Hatimi', a fusion of elephant and whale, popping
For those who have read Jibansmriti, the memoirs of his childhood by Rabindranath Tagore, it is easy to see why Tagore became the kind of teacher that he did. Homeschooled as a little boy, the youngster resented the hours spent under the harsh guidance of
The Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) might be the most well-known science-fiction production of modern times, with its superheroes, villains, and aliens with shapeshifting powers and an evil agenda to take over the earth. However, nearly 60 years ago, four minds in Calcutta came up with
Title: Bangaliyana Publisher: BlueOne Ink Price: Rs 399 If asked to describe himself from a creative standpoint, Rajiv Banerjee would probably use the term ‘self-taught cartoonist’. Which is what he still is, in whatever spare time he can manage from his demanding job as a corporate bigwig in
Why is the news of a book lover buying books worth Rs 3 lakh from a book fair hitting the headlines? Simple, because in an age when we have forgotten to read physical books, isn’t it like a dream come true when one hears that