Vidya Balan, who is basking in the success of Bhool Bhulaiyaa 3, has always confessed her love for Bengali Cinema and culture. Taking her love for the language, the actress learnt one of the most ...

Kolkata: The National Library of India (NLI) is set to celebrate the recent recognition of Bengali as a classical language, a historic moment for the language and its rich literary tradition. NLI, ...

Apparently, Bengali (or Bangla) is the seventh spoken language in the world by population. By some statistics, its position is sixth, and even fifth in another! I am not elated by this because the ...

Every year the Amar Ekushey Book Fair honours those who became martyrs on February 21, 1952 in the Language Movement by showcasing the depth of the Bangla language and literature, serving as an emblem ...

Sometimes it takes a new language to tell a story differently. Unbound by grammatical moorings or even a formal script to call its own, Miya poetry has emerged as a rallying point for a large section ...