Raja Rajendralal Mitra’s seminal work Sanskrit Buddhist Literature of Nepal, published in 1882. That book was instrumental in ...

Written in 1977, Gaon Buro is the story of an old man on a journey to meet a seer who supposedly has all the answers to the problems on Earth. On his way, he meets people who ask him to get solutions ...

Apparently, Bengali (or Bangla) is the seventh spoken language in the world by population. By some statistics, its position is sixth, and even fifth in another! I am not elated by this because the ...

'Matribhashai sobcheye priyo, kono bhasha-i noyko heyo,' read a giant screen on the stage of The Telegraph School Awards For Excellence 2025 on Saturday The 30th edition of The Telegraph School Awards ...

Satyajit has teamed up with Bangladeshi artist Aditi Sadia Rehman for a poetry rendition titled ‘Dohey’ based on some of the notable works of Rabindranath Tagore musically mastered by none other than ...

Gupta was born in 6 March, 1812, Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal. Ishwar Chandra Gupta was brought up in his uncle's house after the death of his mother. He spent most of his childhood in Kolkata. In the ...

KOLKATA: Noted Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh, a Padma Bhushan awardee, died on Wednesday morning while he was in isolation at his residence after testing positive for COVID-19, his family said. Ghosh, 89 ...