When Narayan Sanyal wrote a book based on this incident, he named it Mrityorma Amritam, which in the Upanishads means “from ...

One summer in the rural landscape of Bengal, 16-year-old Mallar, a shy and introspective boy, takes every opportunity to slip ...

Upamanyu Chatterjee is out with The Hush of the Uncaring Sea, a collection of four novellas ...

The reasons for this could be any one of the following, or a combination of them - Younger Bengali playwrights had started writing more indigenous plays relevant to the rapidly changing socio-economic ...

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The Kokborok Sahitya Parishad stated that the script for the Kokborok language can either be Bengali or Devanagari.

The history of the Bengali language and literature was not brought into the service of seeking a territorial foothold for the concept of ‘Bengaliness’ because this was never an agenda for Bengal ...

After a distinguished academic career, she retired as a professor from Dhaka University’s Department of Bengali Language and Literature. Much of her writing focused on Rabindranath Tagore ...