Bengali can be studied as a second language, however, most students choose Hindi or another language instead. Students are not adequately learning Bengali as a result. Bengali is Now Compulsory ...

Mithu Sanyal never learned her father's native language, Bengali, as a child. Is it too late to reclaim it? Do you want to know a secret? A secret so shameful that I hid it for decades? It's only ...

Kolkata, Jan 19 (IANS) A.C.V. Ananda Bose, the new governor of West Bengal, will soon take Bengali lessons, sources said here on Thursday. A ceremonial beginning as per Hindu rituals will start on ...

Bengali is our mother tongue, our state language. In 1952, Rafiq, Jabbar, Salam, Barkat and Safiur shed fresh blood to protect the dignity of mother language. In return for their great sacrifice, we ...

Rubbishing opposition claims that the state government is trying to impose Bengali on students, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said a student is free to choose the first ...

In his foreword to Bernard Cohn's magisterial book Colonialism and its forms of knowledge, Nicholas Dirks commented that for the British, in India, "Language was to be mastered to issue commands and ...

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 ...