The partition of British India in 1947 posed significant challenges to the state-building process in both India and Pakistan, including in Bengal, which faced the complexities of being divided between ...

Bangla Academy, the National Academy of Arts and Letters in Bangladesh, observes its 60th anniversary today. The 60 years of its existence were eventful, and beyond the scope of words to chronicle its ...

The three-part book, "Purbo Banglar Bhasha Andolan O Tatkaleen Rajneeti", by Badruddin Umar is considered a key document of Language Movement history. The renowned researcher, writer, theorist and ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday asserted that no one should try to play with or insult the Bengali language, asking whether there can be an India without West Bengal. Banerjee ...

Bengali is not so much threatened by Hindi as other indigenous local languages of West Bengal are by Bengali, and not much effort is being made to save them, according to an award-winning ...