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 ...
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, ...
This ambitious and inclusive new anthology of Bengali literature over 200 years also includes recipes, screenplays, speeches, ...
From the middle of the nineteenth century onwards, Bengali book production was centred at Battala in Calcutta.
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 ...
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.
Prime Minister Tarique Rahma inaugurated "Multidimensional Bangladesh", a literary event postponed due to the elections. Held at the Bangla Academy, it commemorates the martyrs of the 1952 Language ...
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.