Noted Bengali poet Shankha Ghosh has been selected for the highest literary honour in India, the 2016 Jnanpith Award.

My mind floats gently on the romance

'Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock'(1915) is a landmark modern poem written by T.S. Eliot in the sense is that it broke all

(Continued from the last issue) Prodyumna gaped at the elderly man in surprise. What secret might he want to share with someone he had known only for a day?

He had walked miles with a trembling heart

Is there a silver moonstone for me

Prodyumna saw the man for the first time at the temple of Dasaparmita, the ten perfections, when people came to watch the snake

Nobel laureate Bob Dylan sends a message thanking the Swedish academy for awarding him the Nobel prize for literature, an honor the American singer and songwriter believes is about as likely as "standing on the moon."

Daddy died, Black beard grew: mommy left me.

Every morning I wake up with a fear, After so many sweet dreams

In his novel The Plot Against America, Philip Roth imagines two years of alternative history for the United States.

Springtime in Melbourne, her fifth time in this abode of blood-ties and new generation, but her first in this season of renewal.

Renowned poets from all over the country

Beneath the dissolved, age eaten luminous stone,

Sometimes the web of obscurity becomes visibly so obvious to the viewer that such obscurity emerges as clarity.

This was 1973. Bangladesh had been born only about two years before. I was on my way back to Dhaka after attending a seminar in Belgrade, capital of the then Yugoslavia.

From ransacked temples and torched ancestral homestead,

Two pieces of roti or a red earthen plateful

Ever since he appeared on the New York folk scene, presenting himself as an anonymous exile from a place of no distinct identity – “My name it means nothing, my age it means less, the country I come from it's called the Midwest” – Bob Dylan has worked to elude definition.

Nobel Prize winning litterateur VS Naipaul inaugurates the Dhaka Literary Festival, with this the three-day festival kicks off at the Bangla Academy premises.