As the lights dimmed in the Jack E. Singley Academy auditorium in Irving the story of Shakuntala played on stage. While the play is well known among the Bangladeshi community, according to Bangla ...

While slurry remarks of the kind mentioned make even the most informed of us doubtful of proven literary antecedents, erasure of women's literary history in such discussions seems endemic. Approaching ...

Kolkata: By 26, Binodini Dasi had played 90 roles in 80 plays and helped build Kolkata’s Star Theatre — only to be cast out by the men who owed her their success. Eighty-three years after her death, ...

New Delhi, Aug 10 (PTI) Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Syed Muazzem Ali and Bengali actor Rituparna Sengupta today inaugurated the 11th edition of Bangla ...

I have a love-hate relationship with dinner parties. As a Bengali twentysomething who grew up in the United States, you could say these gatherings defined a certain part of my cultural upbringing. In ...

What comes to mind when you hear the word calligraphy? Probably, the fluid artistic representation of the Arabic alphabets, the oriental delight that is the Chinese script, or English letters in ...