The 'Boiparay Boi Utsab', a week-long book fair at College Square, Kolkata, features 55 stalls with 70 publishers.

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Journalist and author Kavitha Rao presents her latest book, ‘Spies, Lies and Allies: The Extraordinary Lives of Chatto and Roy‘, a meticulously researched biography of two revolutionaries who played ...

In the early 2000s, when I was studying at Jahangirnagar University, on many afternoons, I would board the university bus to Dhaka and get off at Shahbagh, heading straight to Amar Ekushey Boi ...

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Gift books on birthdays, weddings, when invited to an occasion, or just like that. Writers on stage at the inauguration of a book fest in College Square on Tuesday evening appealed to the audience to ...

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UTA’s Co-Head of Media Rights, Jason Richman, is feeling reflective after one of the most shocking beginnings to a year the entertainment industry can remember. The prominent lit exec is ...

If crime is followed by punishment, good crime writing is followed by publication: this is what young participants will essentially learn at the Kolkata Crime Writers’ Festival — a first of ...

International publishers attending the fair were delighted to find solidarity in their shared mission to entertain and educate children—while keeping a close eye on AI, America, and world events.