Delhi, India – Since childhood, 29-year-old Shalim Hussain, a research scholar at Delhi’s Jamia Millia Islamia University, has contended with being called a “Miya”. Although the word literally means ...

Sometime in the late nineties I made my first acquaintance with a group of poets writing in Bengali, who were my introduction to the turbulent undercurrents of Bengali verse-writing which like a ...

KOLKATA: The outside world learnt about Bengali poetry through the English translation of Gitanjali, pointed out Gulzar while releasing a one of a kind anthology, Signposts, in New Delhi last month.

In 2006, on my way back home from Mexico via Paris, I had a week's stopover in Stockholm. After long hours' of air travel, I was exhausted. I was one of the non-Europeans who were stopped by customs ...

The biggest international literary festival is also the biggest occasion for Bangladeshi poets writing in Bengali to get together and stand on a shared platform to interact directly with lovers of ...

Like every year, West Bengal Poetry Academy organised Kobita Utsav — the biggest Bengali poetry festival — in the city recently. This year, with simultaneous events going on at five different venues ...

Shortly after the evening fell, the event began, and the courtyard of Batighar became quite crowded. People of various ages had gathered there to listen to a discussion on a poetry book. It was not an ...

In October 1962, young poet Malay Roy Choudhury boarded the newly launched Janata Express at Patna. The train would stop in Delhi before it reached Calcutta – a rather tedious journey that would go on ...

Eminent Bengali poet Joy Goswami said he looks forward to the literary creations of poets of later generations including those not prominent. Inaugurating the Apeejay Bangla Sahitya Utsob (ABSU) here ...

To what can we attribute the constant over-valuation of the Westerner, often to the detriment of our own artists? American poet Allen Ginsberg greets Bhaktivedanta Swami, founder of the International ...