I ended my last piece with a promise not to waste any more words on the self-publicist and arch-troll Milo Yiannopoulos. I break that

You're still fresh in my mind,

Like a lonely star in the heaven

I have always been fascinated by the person and work of the great poet Javed Akhtar and so I am delighted to have a chance to hear

One born in darkness, The other in light

The life of a jovial six year old boy

The Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet was held from 25-29 January 2017 at the Victoria Memorial Hall. There were two spectacular venues, one under a shamiana erected on the east side and the other within the quadrangle on the western side.

You scowl at the bleak arid earth

I was looking at a small pond,

As soon as Moula gets close to the lane of Babupura slum, he can see Hafizuddi.

Canada's best-known writer Margaret Atwood says it was largely worries about women's issues after the US election that made her book "The Handmaid's Tale" the latest dystopian novel to shoot back up bestseller lists.

Killing innocent people, killing yourself,

I learnt the essence of life sacrificing most invaluable treasures With bitter experiences and losing the memories of the past

The apartment is quiet when Sarah wakes up this morning. She doesn't feel like getting up from bed and wants to just lie there, as though frozen, for a few minutes.

Getting back to consciousness after three days in a hospital in New York, multimillionaire Delwar Hossain looks for his son Tanjil with a mysterious smile on his face. As Tanjil enters the cabin, he knows right away that there is something behind that smile.

Being a poet myself, I know how difficult it is to fit an entire story in a few words and two lines. Not only did Kingkor Ehsan do exactly that in the novel, but also created the poems, broke them into pieces and turned them to stories again.

Amirul Islam -- a teacher of Bengali Children's Literature is publishing a book of 6 rhyming stories, this year at the Boimela -- 'A Cat Named Katus Kutus in the Grassland'!

Schools are burnt, houses torched

An unexpected visitor suddenly entered into my office. I stood up from my chair as soon as I saw him. He was an important political

‘Runaway' is the latest of Alice Munro's collection of short stories about women of all ages and circumstances, their lives and