literature
Samsung Sahitya
Avantika Bhuyan
The Samsung Tagore Literature Awards, announced in New Delhi on 25 January, have sent shockwaves in the world of literature.
Garden of Words
On his 2.5 acre plot of land, a Kerala jewellery shop owner has planted trees featured in the classics of literature
My Nobel Nominees
Don’t know how high-powered committees think, but some of these poets deserve the honour, surely.
The Enigma of Enid Blyton
How does a mediocre writer with recycled plotlines sell 600 million copies across the world?
Rhyme and Treason
In these times when success is determined by numbers, poetry is a marginal mode of communication. Perhaps what the poet should look for is the intensity of his readership, not its size
Don Quixote Gallops to Bengal
A professor tilts his pen at libraries here and abroad to put back on the shelf a contemporary version of a Spanish classic in Bengali
The World Comes to Sankar
At 75, a Bengali writer who loves to claim his books have never travelled beyond Burdwan grabs international attention
City of Imagination
The author on Calcutta’s elusive connection with its literary tradition and the anarchy caused by the Hungry Generation
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