Bangla translations of world-famous literary classics like The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Oliver Twist, Peter Pan, Robinson Crusoe will never seem to lose their appeal ...

Meaningful and thought-provoking theatre with socio-political relevance has been a deep-rooted tradition in different language groups of the Indian subcontinent since ages. In this context Bengali ...

Bengali is not so much threatened by Hindi as other indigenous local languages of West Bengal are by Bengali, and not much effort is being made to save them, according to an award-winning ...

Mrinmoy Pramanick won the Sahitya Akademi Award for ‘Dalit Nandantattwa’, a Bengali translation of ‘Dalit Sahityache Soundharya Shashtra’ (in Marathi) by Sharankumar Limbale Amit Pramanik and Mrinmoy ...

The first ever Bangla translation of the entire “Tripitaka,” which is the earliest collection of Buddhist scriptures and the only text recognised as canonical by Theravada Buddhists, has just been ...

Our life is ever-developing where both our stories and the characters involved progressively figure out what the hidden trophies are. Although we are familiar with many facts surrounding us, there are ...

The Romain Rolland Book Prize was awarded to the Bengali translation 'Staliner Divan' by Pankaj Kumar Chatterjee. The thought-provoking novel explores the encounter between Josef Stalin and a young ...

Nil Darpan or The Indigo Planting Mirror was a Bengali play written by Dinabandhu Mitra in 1858-’59. The drama was written in the context of social agitation in Bengal, known as the Indigo Revolt. The ...

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