(CNN) – In the next few weeks, Fatima Shaik, an African-American, Christian woman, will travel “home” from New York to Kolkata, India. It will be a journey steeped in a history that has remained ...

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, ...

Virtually all Asian immigration to the U.S. was banned when Aladdin Ullah’s father — who left East Bengal to work on a British steamer — jumped ship in the 1920s and settled in New York. Like hundreds ...

Recently, the Department of Bengali at Bikramjit Goswami Memorial College, Purulia, organised a two-day National Seminar with ...

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.

The short book starts with a sketch of the life and the works of Tagore, discusses the content and the history of the song, ...

In a bizarre recent development, the Delhi Police, in an official FIR, claimed that alleged illegal Bangladeshi residents in the city were communicating in “Bangladeshi” language rather than Bengali.

GUWAHATI: The conviction that a 42-year-old dark chapter of Indian history needs to be re-read completely by people is ...

The New York City Education Department will teach Asian-American history in all 1,600 public school to combat the “ignorance” and prejudice that fueled a COVID-19 surge in anti-Asian hate crimes, the ...

Rudra Chatterjee, Managing Director of Luxmi Tea Group, discusses the company's historical ties to India's freedom struggle, ...