Rabindranath Tagore, whose genius touched nearly every branch of the arts and literature, left an indelible imprint on the world of drama—not merely as a playwright, but as an actor, director, and visionary of the stage.

A Tagore lullaby triggers a vivid childhood memory of a monsoon boat ride, exploring how soft, emotional songs — beyond traditional lullabies — soothe sleep through rhythm, parental love, and deep, subconscious emotional conditioning.

In Hyderabad on Sunday, megastar K Chiranjeevi was honoured with a Guinness World Records certificate for being the most prolific actor in the Indian film industry. During a special event, a representative from Guinness World Records presented Chiranjeevi with the prestigious recognition.

An interesting concern in contemporary children’s literature criticism is the discussion of power. Do the fictive children in children’s books, conceived and delivered by the adult author, have the ability to exercise their will and possess a voice?

How do you pack 25 years of your life in two suitcases?

It is important to set unconventional examples at the time that they are written; Tagore’s work did this.

The book as a whole is a rigorously pursued exercise in the close reading of a fascinating and diverse array of modern texts that aren't quite in the category of the canonical mainstream.

Few experiences in life can prepare us to be more sensitive, more inclusive, and generally kinder human beings than reading.

How can you talk about peace without taking into account war? Both are subjects not only of Tolstoy’s great novel but also of the two founding epic poems of Greek as well as Indian literature.

“Bhoot”, the Bangla word for ghost, derives from the Sanskrit word Bhūta, referring to living beings and the past. Later, it also came to mean ‘disembodied spirit.’ Ghost stories carry a special tradition in Bangla literature and the root lies in folklore and rural culture.

The difficulty of translation is one of the reasons why Nazrul is not discussed as extensively as Tagore in the west.

Nehru was revolted by Nazism and the persecution of Europe’s Jews. Bose…felt that the Indian struggle for freedom should override all other considerations.

Kadambari came into my life only a few years back on a dull wintry afternoon of 2015. I was looking for a good Bengali movie and there they were, Konkona Sen Sharma and Parambrata Chatterjee, on the shelves of the video store, guised as Kadambari and Tagore.