At the 49th International Kolkata Book Fair, ‘Subhash Phirechilen’, written by Kunal Bose, drew a massive crowd and became ...

Explore this week’s top book releases, featuring Navtej Sarna’s history of the Indian Tricolour, Jean-Pierre Filiu’s ...

Lahiri's move to Italy inspired her Italian-language writing and Roman Stories, embracing a new "geographical multiverse" for ...

Author Novoneel Chakraborthy shares how reading as a child influenced his imagination and why today’s young readers are drawn ...

If you think the Kolkata Book Fair is only about buying or browsing books, this year’s edition will change your mind. The ...

For Jhumpa Lahiri, whose life and writing have been shaped by migration between continents and languages, the immigrant ...

Jhumpa Lahiri is not at home, but she is not out of place either. The eldest daughter of a generation of Indians and Bengalis who moved out of In ...

Jhumpa, who last attended the festival in 2014, was in conversation with Malavika Banerjee, the festival director, about her ...

Kolkata: The 49th International Kolkata Book Fair (IKBF) continued to break all previous footfall records till now, with another close to four lakh vi.

Written by Bankim Chandra Chatterjee in the 1870s, Vande Mataram evolved from a literary poem into a powerful symbol of India ...

For generations of Bengali readers, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay’s Chander Pahar has been a cherished read.

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