(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 ...

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

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, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Extant South Asian histories of race, and more specifically biometrics, focus almost exclusively upon the colonial era and especially the ...

Indian Literature, Sahitya Akademi’s bimonthly journal, is India’s oldest and the only journal of its kind featuring translations in English of poetry, fiction, drama and criticism from twenty-three ...

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, ...

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 ...