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‘Illogical to tag Urdu with Muslims’: Javed Akhtar at city literary meet

March 23, 2022 3:33 am

Akhtar along with Bengali poet Srijato Bandyopadhyay and writer-filmmaker Sangeeta Datta engaged in conversation on ‘Shaayari, Kobita’.

Kolkata Literary Meet postponed amid rising Covid-19 cases

January 12, 2022 10:55 am

Director of the Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet, Malavika Banerjee said "our meet has traditionally been an open air celebration of great books, ideas, works of arts in various forms and great speakers. The present situation makes it difficult to host it in that form."

Across the Black Seas

February 02, 2014 12:10 am

A woman’s journey from Chhapra to the plantations in Caribbean, told by her great-granddaughter.

Kolkata Book fair Diary : Million footsteps

February 22, 2012 4:19 am

The Kolkata Literary Meet,the promise of rubbing shoulders with dignitaries and the general attraction to the book fair drew crowds by the thousand on Sunday,the first weekend after the fair started.

Dickens Redux

February 10, 2012 3:55 am

Next week,Miss Havisham will hang out with Oliver Twist,and Uncle Scrooge will make merry with Pip for the city is celebrating 200 years of popular British novelist,Charles Dickens.

Rushdie walks from Jaipur Lit fest to Kolkata

January 31, 2012 4:38 am

Salman Rushdie inevitably came up on several occasions during the Kolkata Literary Meet as writers and the audience found the Rushdie incident at the Jaipur Literature Festival as a prototype for Indian politics.

Kolkata Book fair Diary

January 30, 2012 5:38 am

The Kolkata Literary Meet,the promise of rubbing shoulders with dignitaries and the general attraction to the book fair drew crowds by the thousand on Sunday,the first weekend after the fair started.

Kolkata fest to stay clear of politics

January 26, 2012 12:35 am

Author Sunil Gangopadhyay says that it is unfortunate that politics took precedence at the JLF and literature took a backseat.

After film fest,poriborton in book fair

January 07, 2012 2:10 am

Roughly a month after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee bubble-wrapped the Kolkata Film Festival and handed it over to the section of Tollywood,which had sided with her during her election campaign,she is ready with yet another re-branding of a Left Front-bred event to kick off the years cultural calendar.