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The mural of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore, which was blotted with black ink by miscreants, has been restored in Bangladesh's Kushtia district, media reports said on Sunday.
AN event aiming to celebrate and teach children about Bengali culture is being held in Basingstoke this summer. Utsav ...
The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...
World Poetry Day is observed annually on March 21 to pay tribute to poets. It also aims to promote the reading, writing, and teaching of poetry worldwide. Poetry is a form of art and culture.
When now-poet laureate Simon Armitage retired from the Probation Service, his dad was “a bit miffed”. “I went into probation because my dad was a probation officer,” Armitage tells Big Issue. “He was ...
Directed by Debatma Mandal and Tushar Kanti Ray, the show is set to be available in both Hindi and Bengali, broadening its appeal to a diverse audience. The collective effort of a talented cast ...
From Best Director to Best Production Design, here are all the winners from the Joy Filmfare Awards Bangla 2025. The moment we've all been waiting for is here! Filmfare returned with yet another ...
Panchanan Karmakar’s creation led to the printing of the first Bengali language book, and his legacy will soon be showcased to Kolkata Hidden in the lanes of Serampore is the ancestral home and the ...
The British sunk their claws into Hong Kong in stages. In 1842 they colonised Hong Kong island; 1860 saw the seizure of the Kowloon peninsula, and in 1898, the British took out a 99-year lease on ...
Everyone feels like they have some sense of Frost. Everyone knows a poem or two. That kind of overexposure lends an aspect of at least apparent obviousness. But there’s another aspect, too, which is ...
In 1994, Australian poet Dorothy Porter published a book unlike any other: Monkey's Mask, a lesbian crime novel written in verse. The genre-bending book was a bestseller and was later adapted for ...