Stories written by
Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury
-
‘I wouldn’t know what else to do:’ The poetic life of Jayanta Mahapatra (1928-2023)
Mahapatra died on August 27 at the age of 94.
Maitreyee Bhattacharjee Chowdhury
-
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
-
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
Trending
-
‘Be freed from what holds you back’: Poems by Buddhist women from the Murty Classical Library
-
Canada: Amid anti-immigration rhetoric, curbing international students is a knee-jerk reaction
-
By mixing Carnatic and Hindustani, Mysore’s kings helped create a unique body of music
-
We will leave India if told to break encryption: WhatsApp tells Delhi HC
-
Why is BJP wooing Bengali-origin Muslims in Assam?
-
‘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
-
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
-
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
Video
-
Watch: K-Pop singer Aoora sings in Assamese as he collaborates with Nilotpal Bora in a new folk song
-
Watch Anu Malik and Sonu Nigam’s impromptu performance of ‘Main Hoon Na’ at Farah Khan’s home
-
Watch: Doordarshan newsreader faints on live TV in Kolkata owing to severe heat
-
Watch: Spice Girls sing ‘Stop’ as bandmates reunite to celebrate Victoria Beckham’s 50th birthday
-
Watch: Over 350 ballerinas come together to break the world record for standing on tip toes
-
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
-
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