For the last seven years Santanu Chowdhury has been trying to preach the gospel of e-books. He’s gone around College Street, Kolkata’s legendary Boi-para or neighbourhood of books, meeting Bengali ...

In the digital age, eBook reader apps have partially, or in some cases, fully replaced conventional printed books. These apps do not take up space like printed ones, are easily portable, free or cheap ...

What if you had to read a Kakababu or Feluda story and get marks for reviewing it as part of a test in school? Saswat Banerjee, a Class IX student, said: “I’ve been a member of the club since Class VI ...

Calcutta: Rabindranath Tagore's Sahoj Path is getting introduced to beginners through a language and a script they are familiar with. Just that the language and the script are not the same. "We have a ...

Growing up in our part of the world in the second half of the 20th century, and fed on a diet of popular fiction, comic books, TV "nature" documentaries and Hollywood films, who amongst us did not ...

In a nearly-empty Kolkata theatre, watching a mortal man performing all sorts of miracles on the big screen—from flying over enemy defence lines while riding on his horse and breaking a lion’s jaws ...

Who should win Nobel Prize for literature 2022? Here is a list of 11 authors to choose from. Kolkata: Reclaiming the definition of what is generally known as an “E-book”, two technocrats and a digital ...

The books are likely to be released on January 24, just after the inauguration of Kolkata Book Fair. KOLKATA: The book fair in the city has an added attraction this year. Two Bengali books written by ...

At the start of the month of language, the familiar buzz of readers and writers was conspicuously absent this time from the Bangla Academy premises or Suhrawardy Udyan. The colorful stalls of ...

Some 1,000 km inland from Sydney, over the Blue Mountains, past the trees that drink the tributaries of the Darling River, there stands a little, red mosque. It marks where the desert begins. The ...