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"The Boat-wreck" is a moving tale of human lives stuck between the wheels of fortune, and of complicated human relationships.

The Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival 2026 began with a special session honoring Usha Uthup and Madhabi Mukherjee. The event marked the launch of Madhabi's autobiography translation. Uthup and Mukherjee shared insights on their artistic journeys. Uthup concluded the session with a musical performance, setting an exciting tone for the festival.

The worth of any language, even its longevity, directly hinges on its speaker's needs. That's the message a packed audience took home on Saturday from the session 'Losing Language, Losing Identity'.

Now in its ninth year, the Harvill Secker Young Translators’ Prize aims to recognise the achievements of young translators at the start of their careers.

“In 1994, we heard TV was going to kill print. In 2000, we heard the internet is going to kill print. Now we hear that social media is going to kill us,” said Vikas Singh, resident editor, The Times of India, Delhi, during a session on online journalism titled 'The Answer Will Make You Gasp: How online journalism is changing the rules of the game’.

The former Naxalite, whose life is as colourful as his stories, has a significant body of work, having pioneered Dalit writing in West Bengal. However, he got noticed by a wider audience only after a session at the Jaipur Literature Festival.

“…death was not the end of Manik da. Certainly not in my life.” – Soumitra Chatterjee

Rabisankar Bal’s novel ‘Dozakhnama: Conversations in Hell’ re-imagines the ‘dozakh’ (hell) not as a prison cell everyone dreads to live in but a liberating space that allows an undeterred flow of free thoughts...

“I n 1994, we heard TV was going to kill print. In 2000, we heard the internet is going to kill print. Now we hear that social media is going to kill us,“ said Vikas Singh, resident editor, The Times of India, Delhi, during a session on online journalism titled 'The Answer Will Make You Gasp: How online journalism is changing the rules of the game'.

The films to be screened include Lenin by Arunava Ganguly, Gujarat by Soumitra Dastidar, America America by K P Shashi and Tapan Sinha by Raja Sen.

The winners of the 8th edition of Oxford Bookstore Book Cover Prize 2023 and the 1st edition of Oxford Bookstore Art Book Prize 2023 were announced at an event in New Delhi on May 22, 2023 evening.

Senior advocate Arunava Ghosh on Wednesday was elected as the new president of Calcutta High Court Bar Association.

New Delhi, May 8 () When penning a book of Bengali short stories, it is only natural to begin with Rabindranath Tagore's 'Kabuliwallah,' the iconic tale of friendship between an Afghani dry-fruit seller and a 5-year-old girl, that continues to be recited till date in homes and classrooms across

Interdisciplinary artist Sujoy Prosad Chatterjee and his team are set to present an online memorial for Shankha Ghosh, the iconic Bengali poet who passed away recently.

The mobile phone that doubles as his landline kept ringing in novelist Mani Sankar Mukherjee aka Sankar's first floor flat overlooking the busy Bondel Road, once an industrial suburb of the megacity and now a tony neighbourhood.

The Times Litfest 2015, Bengaluru, kicks off on Saturday at the Jayamahal Palace Hotel. The two-day festival is among the biggest such literary enclaves in Bengaluru. It’ll see some of India’s foremost creative minds talk, argue, debate, discuss and engage with vital topics which touch our lives.

A man has been arrested in connection with hoax call to Bidhannagar police regarding the planting of a human bomb inside the Netaji International Airport in Kolkata.

In a first, the Calcutta High Court will have six women judges presiding over proceedings at the same time. The appointments of justices Ananya Bandyopadhyay and Rai Chattopadhyay as additional judges took the number to six on Wednesday.

Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Caroline Elkins and Siddhartha Mukherjee, 2022 Hasselblad Award recipient Dayanita Singh, MP Feroze Varun Gandhi, pop singer Usha Uthup, filmmaker Onir and lyricist Javed Akhtar are in an eclectic mix of luminaries from the world of arts and socio-political

The 16th Apeejay Kolkata Literary Festival (AKLF) was announced at a Park Street bookstore. The event featured Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee, who launched his book *Chhaunk*. The festival, scheduled for January 10-12, 2025, at Allen Park, will host over 120 writers, including prominent figures like Ramachandra Guha, Shobhaa De, and William Dalrymple.

More than 200 writers issued an appeal to citizens to vote out hate politics in the Lok Sabha elections. “Vote out the division of our people; vote out inequality; vote against violence, intimidation and censorship. This is the only way we can vote for an India that renews the promises made by our Constitution," reads the statement.

Former advocate general Naranarayan Gooptu passed away at his Salt Lake residence on Monday morning. Gooptu was 90 and is survived by his two daughters and son. A barrister from Lincoln's Inn, London, Gooptu joined the Calcutta High Court in 1960, and grew in association and under the guidance of Snehangshu Kanta Acharya, Sadhan Gupta, Hasim Abdul Halim, Arun Prakash Chatterjee and Ajit Panja. Gooptu rose to prominence while fighting against detention without trial of government employees.