Indian-born British-American author Salman Rushdie has been named Companion of Honour, an exclusive club of 65 members honoured for their services to the arts, science, medicine, and government. Rushdie is leading the list for his longstanding services to literature.  

The wide alleys and cobbled streets in the sultry air of the Mumbai city did not present a scenic panorama with foliage and greenery.

A memorial meeting of veteran writer, popular columnist and journalist, Abdul Gaffar Choudhury, author of the song, ‘Amar Bhaier Rokte Rangano’ was arranged in the main auditorium of Bishwa Shahitya Kendro on May 31

I had to come to this dense forest yesterday. I have no clue why we had to fall back. This is the beauty of military life-- the order comes and you have to do it. You can never ask, “Why do I have to do it?”

Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976) has been customarily characterized as a rebel poet, particularly, if not exclusively, because of his 1922 poem called “Bidrohi” (the Rebel)—a poem that fiercely stages his political, linguistic, even metrical rebellion all at once.

Indian writer Geetanjali Shree became the first author from the country to win the International Booker Prize for her Hindi novel set in the aftermath of the 1947 Partition of the Indian subcontinent.

Book Lovers treads a fine line between subversion and indulgence of the tropes of small-town romance and enemies-to-lovers.

"I selected excerpts from eight famous works, books like Begum Rokeya’s 'Motichur' and 'Ekattorer Diary' by Sufia Kamal, and expanded on their implied or intended meaning as best as I could."

After I go

In the chilly winter night as I walked past the forest, I heard a feeble crying of a baby. I shivered in my warm clothes.

I wanted to share my personal reading order of Alice’s work and a glance into what you can expect from each.

Going live from May 15 is The Myth Bridge, a live-action simulation game that “[brings] to life” and connects nine women characters from Bengali and German folklore. 

The book in question, according to the blurb on UPL’s website, asks noteworthy questions like, “How do [Millennials] identify themselves in the social and national contexts and how can the nation's framework work for their life strategy?” 

Life is a battlefield. Every living species fights a different battle; therefore, I can only talk about mine.

When I look back to find the definitive moment when my writing habits took root, I can’t find it. It is a distant vanishing point from which everything radiated, or maybe there was not a single point or node from where it all began.

Exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen has criticised the choice of Paschimbanga Bangla Academy to confer West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee a literature award and alleged that “Kolkata's writers, artists and intellectuals are all sold out.”

She would be the first woman in the history of Persian literature to publish poems that spoke openly of women, sexuality, longings, and equality.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday was awarded her government-run Bangla Academy’s maiden honour for her "relentless literary pursuit".

Motherhood changes everything you knew about yourself and the world you had carefully curated for the past however many years you have been alive.

Twenty-eight years ago, on an overcast day, an astrologer, sitting at the porch of our ramshackle house, had predicted that my mother would never give birth to a male child.