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”.
From an early age, Subhadra Kumari Chauhan was fond of reading and writing poetries. A few years senior to her best friend Mahadevi Verma at Crosthwaite Girls’ School, Allahabad, they both cherished their love for poetry and wrote in a very similar way.
"Multiple people are working for more than eight hours wearing headphones and in front of laptops. This is putting a lot of stress on their ears and unsterilised earbuds or ear-plugs could spread infection."
Born on February 5, 1936, at Devanahalli on the city's northern outskirts, Ahmed was a prolific writer in Kannada and penned poems, plays, short stories and novels.
Aziz is a writer, actor, and musician with a degree in civil engineering.
Born in Meerut in 1957, Siddiqui received higher education a the Aligarh Muslim University and joined the All India Radio at Srinagar station in 1988.
