From textiles and folk art to sweets and seasonal fruits, the array of famous items from West Bengal is as diverse as its landscape.No visit is complete without sampling the iconic Bengali ...

A book featuring a compilation of speeches of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in the assembly would soon be published, an official said. A draft of it has already been prepared and is ...

Meet Author Biswajit Jha, The Book Dada Of West Bengal. New Delhi: When journalist turned author and social worker Biswajit Jha met Padma awardee social worker Karimul Hak way back in 2014, Jha ...

KOLKATA: Twelve books penned by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee have been published during the ongoing 45th International Kolkata Book Fair. The books chronicle recent events in her ...

Nabaneeta Dev Sen's book on the Naxal movement in West Bengal, first published in Bengali in 1978, is now available in English. Some prominent persons of West Bengal had played a strange two-faced ...

An insider’s story on some of Bengal’s most famous personalities from Jyoti Basu to Charu Majumdar to famous hangman Nata Mullick will soon be available to Bengali readers. Suraj Sharma, a former ...

This is the first time in the 48 years of the book fair that Bengal’s well-known human rights organisation, the APDR, was denied a stall. This year’s fair is set to commence on January 28.

West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose on Sunday expressed a desire to pen a book in Bengali, terming himself as an “adopted son” of the state. Bose was addressing a gathering at a literary meet ...

The Kolkata Book Fair 2024 is a big opportunity for the little magazines of Bengal, providing these small but committed publications a platform to present themselves to the outside world. These ...