Bengali lit fest to be held this Saturday

Covering different facets of Bengali literature, a Bengali literary festival would be held in Kolkata this week. Created in association with book publishers Patra Bharati, the Apeejay Bangla Sahitya Utsob (ABSU) will be attended by eminent authors, renowned film directors, poets and musicians at Oxford Bookstores on Saturday.

Festival director Swagat Sengupta said the <g data-gr-id="11">full day</g> festival will cover all facets of Bengali literature. Eminent authors like Shirshendu Mukherjee, Nabaneeta Dev Sen, Samaresh Majumdar, Sankha Ghosh, Bani Basu, renowned film directors like Goutam Ghose, Suman Mukhopadhyay, Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury would be part of the festival.

Those who will attend from Bangladesh include novelist Imdadul Haq Milon. <g data-gr-id="10">mpost</g>