Nijum Pratik and her family came to the U.S. from Bangladesh in 2010, but she struggled to find a place at UCLA to discuss the war and regional conflict that had impacted her homeland. She and her ...

The team behind Shabdakalpa, anchored at the School of Cultural Texts and Records in Jadavpur University, believes that it would be the first historical dictionary for a non-Latin script, tracing the ...

On the eve of Poila Baisakh, Bengali New Year’s Day, the question of Bengali asmita hangs heavy in the air. Is it under siege? If so, from where? Is the eclectic, pluralist soul of Bengal’s culture ...

International Mother Language Day, observed on February 21, highlights the importance of linguistic diversity and multilingual education. Rooted in the 1952 Bengali language movement, it honors those ...

BJP leaders, including Amit Malviya, defended calling Bengali a “Bangladeshi language” in the context of identifying infiltrators. There is no officially recognized language called “Bangladeshi.” ...

As the Durga Puja festival begins on Monday, the Chaltabagan Sarbojanin Durga Puja in Kolkata’s Machuabazar pays tribute to the mother tongue Bengali: “Ami Banglai Bolchi” – I am speaking in Bengali.