Among the power centres of Bangladesh, the status of Bangla is a little better at general universities. Bangla is used more in general universities than elsewhere and its status, too, is higher, if ...

The Bangladesh national book fair, held every year in February to honor the demonstrators killed in the Bengali language movement of the mid-20th century, promotes a spirit and desire to uphold the ...

Seventy years after the events of February 21, how far have we really been able to live up to the anti-colonial spirit of our Language Movement? The answer to this question is by no means a simple one ...

An artificial intelligence (AI)-based platform for the Bangla language, Kagoj.ai, has been launched along with a new Bangla font titled Julai, designed for official and publishing use. The ...

A language is considered to be standardized when it has gone through substantial phases of codification which, consequently, results in people of a powerful socio-economic class endorsing it as the ...

A senior Bangladesh minister on Tuesday exhorted the United Nations to formally adopt Bangla as one of its official languages, on the day when the country celebrated the Language Martyrs Day to ...

I began translating accidentally in 2005, with the Bengali anti-establishment, experimental and maverick Little Magazine writer Subimal Misra. That was like being unwittingly thrown into the deep end ...

Veteran actor and BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty has launched a sharp attack on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over her recent remarks on the Bengali language. Responding to her comments, Chakraborty ...