Ullas Mallick News Today

Writers, poets, critics and academics will deliberate on a wide range of issues at the '9th Apeejay Bangla Sahitya Utsob' (ABSU), the meet celebrating Bengali literary works in Bangladesh and India.  The organisers said eminent Bengali poet Joy Goswami will inaugurate the three-day event on 24 November, reports Telegraph India.  An array of subjects including

Eminent Bangladeshi novelist-poet Sadat Hossain will discuss with his Bengali counterpart Amar Mitra about the direction Bangladeshi literature is heading to, while writers Anita Agnihotri, Tapan Bandyopadhyay will focus on the presence of politics in literature and state surveillance