Book-marked, the Bengali way

Literature Festivals are now gaining popularity in India judging by their sheer number in recent times. From Jaipur, Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi, Goa, Kovalam, Kasauli, Hyderabad, Bhubaneswar to Karimganj, the map of India is now getting dotted with ...

HAILAKANDI, March 21 The four-day-long 25th biennial conference of Barak Upatyaka Banga Sahitya and Sanskriti Sanmilan concluded here on Monday, with the passage of various resolutions in the concluding session of the meet. It mainly demanded the ...

Get more involved with culture, literature Correspondent HAILAKANDI, March 17 Famous Bengali actress of Kolkata, Madhavi Mukherjee inaugurated the four-day long 25th biennial conference of Barak Upatyaka Banga Sahitya & Sanskriti Sanmilan at Nazrul ...

Now is the wrong time to be praising Kolkata. Thuggery has followed a tragic death. Park Street has come to rhyme better with rape than with Flurys. The new airport emits deja vu of the old, and editors have had to work overtime to calm nerves with ...

While literary fests seem to be the order of the day, poetry clubs catering to those with a love for the written verse, seem to be mushrooming in small pockets around the city Literary fests are the 'in' thing today. It makes front page headlines ...

The literary scholar and cricket writer Sujit Mukherjee once used the first Indian treatise on politics to explain what makes spin bowling special. "Of the three strategies of overthrowing the enemy recommended in Arthashastra -- deception, might, ...

Three decades after "Midnight's Children" catapulted Salman Rushdie to literary glory, a film of the novel feels like "closing the circle" after his dark years in hiding, he says. But while fatwa-free life is now "pretty good," he admitted there are ...

New Delhi, April 3 (IANS) Erotica as a genre of literature is still the flavour after the success of "50 Shades of Gray", an erotic novel by British author E.L. James published in 2011. The book, which has become a manual of erotic love, is the ...

Surprisingly insulated from the rapidly changing surrounds, this is the favourite haunt of visitors from far and near An unusual doorway flanked by a regular cigar shop, walls plastered with a myriad of political posters and graffiti, and then a ...