Wednesday marks International Mother Language Day, and members of the Bengali community came together for a celebration of ethnic heritage. The day aims to celebrate people from every country speaking ...

Jhumpa Lahiri returned to India after 12 years, speaking in Kolkata about her early shame regarding the Bengali language and ...

In his foreword to Bernard Cohn's magisterial book Colonialism and its forms of knowledge, Nicholas Dirks commented that for the British, in India, "Language was to be mastered to issue commands and ...

Elon Musk’s AI company xAI has started hiring native Hindi and Bengali speakers. The aim stays clear. The company wants Grok ...

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday condemned what she called “the brutal oppression and persecution” of Bengali-speaking people in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-ruled states. West ...

This Australian scholar translated the iconic book Bangalir Itihas decades ago. The author catches up with him ...

The Lok Sabha on Friday witnessed a heated exchange after Trinamool Congress MP Shatabdi Roy alleged that Bangla-speaking individuals were being deported to Bangladesh, insisting that “language cannot ...