Tributes to Salil Chowdhury by children’s choir
Legendary music composer, poet and political thinker Salil Chowdhury’s popularity is not confined to Bengal or Mumbai.
Legendary music composer, poet and political thinker Salil Chowdhury’s popularity is not confined to Bengal or Mumbai.
West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress Party chief Mamata Banerjee on Monday paid rich tributes to rebel poet Kazi Nazrul Islam on his 126th birth anniversary.
A Nobel laureate, poet, philosopher, and visionary, Tagore was also a master storyteller. Through his short stories, he explored the depths of human emotion, the complexities of society, and the subtleties of everyday life.
Celebrated poet and novelist Vinod Kumar Shukla has been conferred the 59th Jnanpith Award, making him the first literary figure from Chhattisgarh to receive India’s highest literary honor.
As is well-known, due to unavoidable circumstances Rabindranath Tagore could not attend the Nobel Award Ceremony held in Sweden in 1913. Instead, the telegram from Rabindranath Tagore, read by Mr. Clive, British Chargé affairs’, at the Nobel Banquet at Grand Hôtel, Stockholm, on 10 December 1913 stated, “I beg to convey to the Swedish Academy my grateful appreciation of the breadth of understanding which has brought the distant near, and has made a stranger a brother”.
He narrated how the poet had inspired him to write for the children and younger people. Indranil Sen, state minister for information and cultural affairs
Join the celebration as Javed Akhtar, the lyrical maestro of Bollywood, turns 71! Explore his timeless hits and the enduring impact of his poetic genius on the Indian film industry.
Sahitya Academy awarded prominent Urdu poet Munawwar Rana died of a heart attack here on Sunday night.
Renowned writer and founder of Prataya Educational and Cultural Trust Nisith Singha Roy recently organised a felicitation programme at the Jyotindranath Auditorium in Chandannagar to honour eminent writers and poets from both India and abroad for their immense contribution towards enriching and propagating Bengali language and literature.
In a sense, in an arid desert where we went astray, Neruda's poetry embraces us like a fountain of love and sprinkles its pious water all over our afflicted hearts.
