Rabindranath Tagore played a leading role in Indian cultural renaissance and came to be recognized as one of the architects of modern India alongside Mahatama Gandhi. He is the composer of India's ...

While Bengali is primarily derived from Magadhi Prakrit, over the years, the language has taken on new forms, ranging from the Sylheti dialect that absorbed Persian vocabulary to Radhi Bengali moulded ...

Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti is annually marked on the 25th day of Boishakh, the Bengali month in early May. This year, ...

At 48, Smaranjit Chakraborty, the recipient of the Ananda Purashkar 1431 (2025), is one of the youngest in the history of Bengali literature’s most prestigious award instituted by Ananda Bazar ...

Stewart, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in Humanities Emeritus, the field of South Asian religions, and more specifically, premodern Bengali literature, has lost one of its leading lights.

We are all equal, no caste stratification here. (From Chandilini, an anthology of poems by Kalyani Thakur Charal) Speaking truth to power as only she can, Kalyani Thakur Charal, a 60-year-old ...

Reception as a Literary Text Ghulam Murshid noted that while Ramram Basu's contemporaries in Bengali literature were primarily Sanskrit scholars who wrote in a Sanskritized style, Ramram's prose ...

You have not received cheap applause. The value of your contributions to Bengali literature has not been diminished even a little.” Inspired by American writer Earl Stanley Gardner’s “Perry ...

Pochishe Boishakh is the 25th day of the Bengali month of Boishakh. It is celebrated as Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti, ...

Rabindranath Tagore became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 for his work 'Gitanjali'. His profound impact on Bengali literature, music, and art is celebrated ...