The Kolkata Literary Meet proves that it isn’t just an event; it is a celebration of the written word, a festival where readers come together to revel in the joy of storytelling.
Writers, poets, critics and academics will deliberate on a wide range of issues at the '9th Apeejay Bangla Sahitya Utsob' (ABSU), the meet celebrating Bengali literary works in Bangladesh and India. The organisers said eminent Bengali poet Joy Goswami will inaugurate the three-day event on 24 November, reports Telegraph India. An array of subjects including
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
Nazrul Islam, popularly known as the rebel poet , is the national poet of Bangladesh and is a revered and much-loved figure in India s West Bengal. Nazrul s granddaughter Anindita Kazi said in a voice message from the United States: "As members of his family and lovers of his creations, we cannot accept this distortion. We want it to be immediately omitted from the film and removed from the public domain."