Girish Chandra Ghosh, the father of the modern Bengali stage, apparently led a bohemian lifestyle. An atheist and a rebel,…

Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, also known as Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, was a great poet, writer, and journalist. Born on June 27,…

Popular Indian author Vikram Chandra shot into the limelight with his novel Red Earth and Pouring Rain and a collection…

Tulsidas (1532-1623) was a legendary Indian poet and philosopher Tulsidas is the author of the 'Ramcharitmanas', one of the greatest…

Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, the man who has woven magic with his words and some unputdownable series of writings, knew West…

Born on June 19, 1947 in Mumbai, Salman Rushdie, heated up the headlines when his second novel Midnight's Children (1981),…

Romesh Chandra Dutt, a civil servant, a political and economic thinker and writer, a Bengali Literature personality, he is renowned…

Rohinton Mistry is an Indian-born Canadian writer. He is originally from India, but currently resides in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. He…

Mirabai (1498-1547) is a mystical poetess, singer and saint of the sixteenth century. Her compositions are popular allover India. She…

Michael Madhusudan Dutt, the pioneer or Bengali literature, was the popular and important poet and playwright of his times. Bengali…