Lajmi was a renowned artist, who held successful art exhibitions all over the world.

The author's greatness lay in her dealing with the ‘serious’ and ‘frivolous’ with the same light touch.

Chakraborty would often stun those around him with his vast knowledge of Bengali linguistics.

The festival is expected to witness presence of over 300 authors, thinkers, politicians, journalists and popular culture icons this year.

The Jnanpith Award winner had been undergoing treatment at a Kolkata hospital for two months now. She was 90 years old.

As 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...

The 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...

Tiwana joined the ongoing protest by growing number of artistes by returning her 2004 Padma Shri award over the Dadri lynching and ‘growing...

Mandakranta Sen today returned Sahitya Akademi award. Sen is one of the youngest receiver of the award. She was conferred with the 'young w...

The serial is based on the book "Aami Rabi Thakurer Bou" (I am Tagore's wife) written by a well-known Tagore researcher Ranjan Bandyopadhya...

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 is presenting a show of more than sixty drawings of the eminent artist Ramkumar from August 1-30, 2014, at th...

The exhibition presents many previously unseen works, including furnishings and objects from the couple’s via Manzoni.

The 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 will take the writers, and an ingenious travelling library, through Indian cities and towns in search of stories, conversati...

Police scuffled with a group of artists who were protesting the violence in Nandigram at the venue of the 13th Kolkata film festival.

The CPM now plans to press its cultural wing, Bharatiya Gananatya Sangha (BGS), that will try to win back the support of intellectuals, wri...