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POETS AND WRITERS IN KOLKATA
Saturday bank holiday: Are banks open or closed today on May 9, 2026?Bank holiday today: Bank customers should check whether banks are open or closed before making a physical visit to a branch. Apart from reg...- Kolkata hosts Boiparay Boi Utsab literary fest in city of joy's 'book hub'Kolkata hosts the 'Boiparay Boi Utsab', a literary festival at College Square Ground from April 1-7 with 55 stalls and 70 publishers. The e...
- Mamata Banerjee inaugurates 48th Kolkata International Book FairWest Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee inaugurated the 48th Kolkata International Book Fair, highlighting the strong historical ties be...
- Guru Dutt's sister and Kalpana Lajmi's mother Lalitha passes away at 90Lajmi was a renowned artist, who held successful art exhibitions all over the world.
- Padma Shri awardee Nabaneeta Dev Sen's indefatigable lightness of beingThe author's greatness lay in her dealing with the ‘serious’ and ‘frivolous’ with the same light touch.
- Bengali poet Nirendranath Chakraborty passes away at 94 in KolkataChakraborty would often stun those around him with his vast knowledge of Bengali linguistics.
- FreeCharge to be wallet partner for Jaipur LitFestThe festival is expected to witness presence of over 300 authors, thinkers, politicians, journalists and popular culture icons this year.
- Noted writer-activist Mahasweta Devi passes away; Mamata mourns loss of 'personal guide'The Jnanpith Award winner had been undergoing treatment at a Kolkata hospital for two months now. She was 90 years old.
- Mamata Banerjee establishes an extensive, multi-lingual literary oeuvreAs a writer, her tally stands at 68 books in print in Bengali and English. Then she’s issued seven CDs consisting of poems and songs penned...
- Poet Uday Prakash refuses to take back Sahitya Akademi awardThe award-winning poet said he was disheartened to see authors taking back their awards only a week after the death of the Dalit scholar in...
- Punjabi author Dalip Kaur Tiwana returns Padma Shri, more writers protestTiwana joined the ongoing protest by growing number of artistes by returning her 2004 Padma Shri award over the Dadri lynching and ‘growing...
- Mandakranta Sen returns Sahitya Akademi AwardMandakranta Sen today returned Sahitya Akademi award. Sen is one of the youngest receiver of the award. She was conferred with the 'young w...
- Rabindranath Tagore's wife Mrinalini Devi's life to come alive on small screenThe serial is based on the book "Aami Rabi Thakurer Bou" (I am Tagore's wife) written by a well-known Tagore researcher Ranjan Bandyopadhya...
- Jhumpa Lahiri wins the $50,000 DSC Prize for her book 'The Lowland'The Prize celebrates writing on the South Asian region from writers across the globe and is given to the best novel or translations into En...
- Kolkata’s Aakriti Art Gallery to present show of over sixty drawings of eminent artist RamkumarKolkata’s Aakriti Art Gallery is presenting a show of more than sixty drawings of the eminent artist Ramkumar from August 1-30, 2014, at th...
- Christie’s Private Sales fields inaugural design exhibition of Ettore SottsassThe exhibition presents many previously unseen works, including furnishings and objects from the couple’s via Manzoni.
- Christie's to have its first online-only auction of Australian Art WorksThe sale is led by a group of Nolan drawings from the 1950s through to the 1960s, which include classic subjects such as his drought studie...
- The Bookwallah, the first roving writers' festival in India, an exciting initiative: Peter VargheseThe Bookwallah will take the writers, and an ingenious travelling library, through Indian cities and towns in search of stories, conversati...
- Artists held, police break up Mahila Congress rallyPolice scuffled with a group of artists who were protesting the violence in Nandigram at the venue of the 13th Kolkata film festival.
- CPM all out to win back its support baseThe CPM now plans to press its cultural wing, Bharatiya Gananatya Sangha (BGS), that will try to win back the support of intellectuals, wri...
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