The writing of history in the Bengali language by a Bengali began around 225 years ago with the publication of Raja Pratapaditya Charitra in 1801. The book was printed by the Serampore Mission Press, ...

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 ...

This write-up describes my singular experience in translating Bengali short stories into English. However, all literary translations deal with certain common problems—of idiolect and dialect, or the ...

Bengali writer Binayak Banerjee is one of 15 participants from as many countries across the world to be selected for the prestigious International Writing Program (IWP) at University of Iowa. KOLKATA: ...

Two thirds of the way into the 32:15 minute documentary on Mahasweta Devi commissioned by the Sahitya Akademi, the Bengali writer, typographic illustrator and editor Ajoy Gupta makes a perceptive ...

Students from schools across Kolkata attended the workshop and learned to stylise the letters and get a sense of the origins of the Bengali alphabet Interesting creatives of the events, displaying old ...