How Binoy Majumdar re-wrote the grammar of Dalit poetry and politics, and was ostracised for it

September 17 marked the 87th birth anniversary of the nomoshudro Bengali poet.

Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury

· Sep 18, 2021 · 12:30 pm

The success of this anthology of 200 years of English essays from India is that it is for everyone

Editor Arvind Krishna Mehrotra demonstrates his belief in the accessibility of prose.

Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury

· Jan 16, 2021 · 08:30 am

‘The Roshogolla Makers’: A sweet short story for the age of the pandemic

What happened after Bhanjo Mishtanno Bhandar in Kolkata had to close because of the lockdown.

Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury

· Jun 01, 2020 · 05:30 pm

A new book chronicles the radically iconoclastic movement in Bengali poetry in the 1960s

Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury’s ‘The Hungryalists’ portrays a group of literary revolutionaries in Bengal.

Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury

· Jan 08, 2019 · 08:30 am

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind: Why no one has stopped reading the poet Shakti Chattopadhyay

The maverick lyric poet died on this day, March 23, in 1995, hours after delivering a lecture in Rabindranath Tagore’s Santiniketan.

Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury

· Mar 23, 2018 · 05:30 pm

Why Bengaluru is getting a poetry festival (and why poets do that thing they do)

Faced with moments of global uncertainty, the only language that emerges is of poetry.

Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury

· Aug 02, 2016 · 08:30 am

Uttam Kumar: Uncommon star, and common person’s hero

Fans of the Bengali cinema icon loved his screen persona and his off-screen acts of generosity and charity.

Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury

· Jul 24, 2015 · 03:30 pm