Need Tagore more than ever, say Bengal's voices on the bard's birthday thehindu.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thehindu.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Bengali writer says election time now is hardly different from what he saw in the 1970s thehindu.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thehindu.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Eminent Bangladeshi novelist-poet Sadat Hossain will discuss with his Bengali counterpart Amar Mitra about the direction Bangladeshi literature is heading to, while writers Anita Agnihotri, Tapan Bandyopadhyay will focus on the presence of politics in literature and state surveillance
‘I believe a writer should never take a single political or ideological stand. If a writer takes a political stand for any reason, it will corrupt his ethics.’