On the occasion of International Mother Language Day, this is the perfect time to celebrate the beauty and richness of the Bangla language. One way you can do so is by diving into Bangla literature, ...

Growing up in our part of the world in the second half of the 20th century, and fed on a diet of popular fiction, comic books, TV "nature" documentaries and Hollywood films, who amongst us did not ...

In a nearly-empty Kolkata theatre, watching a mortal man performing all sorts of miracles on the big screen—from flying over enemy defence lines while riding on his horse and breaking a lion’s jaws ...

Cover of 'Shunya Pather Mallika'; and (right) Bengali author Smaranjit Chakraborty who won the Ananda Purashkar 1431 (2025). (Author photo by SNM Abdi) At 48, Smaranjit Chakraborty, the recipient of ...

What did Rammohun Roy say about Sati? What was Mahasweta Devi's critique of consumerism? What did Meghnad Saha really say ...

Keeping aside Tagore or Sarat Chandra – these writers are redefining Bengali literature for a new generation, exploring themes like old-school love, magic realism, history and crime ...

Some 1,000 kilometres inland from Sydney, over the Blue Mountains, past the trees that drink the tributaries of the Darling River, there stands a little, red mosque. It marks where the desert begins.

Qazi Anwar Hussain, noted writer and creator of Bangladesh's popular spy thriller series “Masud Rana” and the founder of an influential publishing house died on January 19, 2022 at 85 years of age.