Bibliotherapy helps externalize what has long been internalized. It allows readers to break cycles of silence and restore a sense of agency. It is both a medicine and a mirror for the Bengali diaspora ...

Colonial Grandeur Meets Bengali Identity Kolkata was once the capital of British India until 1911, and its streets still ...

On Failing’, a recently launched collection of essays edited by writer Amit Chaudhuri, contests the idea of success being the ...

Filmmaker Aparna Sen, whose journey has been chronicled in a recent documentary, speaks about translating Bengali poets, ...

Through defiant poetry, soul-stirring songs and justice-driven prose, Nazrul emerged as a symbol of resistance and unity. As ...

As a poet, he expressed love, romance, surrender and even anguish as a spiritual connection with the Almighty. One can find different ... Rabindra Sangeet is poetry-based. So those who understand ...

But then I quickly realised that it’s an offer I cannot logically decline, because, being an elderly and obscure Bengali ... of poems, along with two collections of literary essays and one ...

Puratawn review: Sharmila Tagore's comeback Bengali film explores ... But if you love your cinema like you love an old diary—intimate, aching, and full of small yet beautiful details—this one’s worth ...

He was one place behind ... by many as the Bengali Shakespeare - and is the composer of both the Indian and Bangladeshi national anthems. Tagore is regarded as the Bengali Shakespeare In the survey, ...

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However, one may ... Sen', a poem by Jibanananda Das, translated by Sugata Bose). For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. Jibanananda Das, a leading Bengali poet of ...

Of course we don’t mean we love Keats that way. It’s the poems we adore, especially the one about succumbing to the song of an elusive nightingale. Surely that poem soars above whatever sordid ...