When did Indian food first come to Chicago? It’s a thorny question. Many restaurants in the city claim to be among the first or the oldest, including Gaylord Fine Indian originally on Clark Street, ...

Tārāshankar Bandopādhyāy's novel Hānsulī Bānker upakathā 'The Tale of Hansuli Turn' (1946–51) straddles the period of independence and partition in India. Its literary staging of the creolized Bengali ...

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.

Poila Baisakh 2025: Pohela Boishakh, also called Poila Baisakh or Noboborsho, signifies the beginning of the Bengali New Year. Celebrated on the first day of Boishakh in the Bengali solar calendar, ...

Several Durga Puja committees in Kolkata are highlighting the plight of Bengalis facing persecution in other states. Themes will address the harassment of Bengali-speaking migrant workers, their ...

Violence erupted in Bangladesh’s southeastern district of Khagrachari on the evening of September 19, as tensions between Bengali settlers and members of the Indigenous community in the sensitive ...

Ganoshotru uses silence, shadows, slow pans and ambient sounds for improving tension. The restraint builds tension here. It really hits hard when you expect something to give and when it does. All of ...