Pandit Haraprasad Shastri read—and was deeply inspired by—Raja Rajendralal Mitra's seminal work Sanskrit Buddhist Literature of Nepal, published in 1882. That book was instrumental in inaugurating a ...

The 11th edition of Apeejay Bangla Sahitya Utsob (ABSU)—India’s premier Bengali literary festival curated by Oxford Bookstores—will be held from November 7 to 9 at the century-old Oxford Bookstore, ...

Six full-length courses on Bangladeshi writers have been introduced by the department of Bengali Literature at the University of North Bengal in Siliguri, West Bengal, India. Though some Indian ...

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.

India's premier Bengali literary festival, the 11th Apeejay Bangla Sahitya Utsob, has commenced, celebrating literary giants and fostering cultural dialogue. The event features tributes to Ritwik ...

Poet, playwright and philosopher Ravindranath Tagore wrote his acclaimed Bengali literature in Calcutta, India, more than a century ago. Its universality is being hailed by the Valley’s arts ...

Yet a great body of literature in Bangla ranging from the thousand-year-old Charyagiti down to Ramprasad Sen-Lalon Fakir-Bhaba Pagla to the contemporary mystic singers and folk poets is heavily ...

Kolkata: The 38th edition of Kolkata International Book Fair will help enrichment of Bengali literature via Wikipedia, the world’s largest multilingual free internet encyclopedia. According to ...

An informal meeting was underway at the house of linguist Tarun Kumar Ghatak in south Calcutta. Two dozen people — students and professors of Bengali literature alongside some folk and classical ...