Madhu Mela, a festival to celebrate the 200th birth anniversary of the pioneer of Bengali sonnets, poet Michael Madhusudan Dutta, will start in Keshabpur upazila of Jashore tomorrow.
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
The mother of the five-year-old, Garrett M. Matthias, helped him write his own obituary before his death from a rare kind of cancer. Garrett wrote he didn’t want a sad funeral
At best, Raja Rammohun Roy can be described as one of the most articulate voices advocating for the adoption of English education in place of the traditional Sanskrit pedagogy