As Darwin said, the linguistic system of modern humans has the "power of associating together the most diversified sounds and ideas" to produce an infinite number of sentences. This system evolved in ...

On February 25, 1948 the Pakistan Constituent Assembly proposed Urdu as the official language of Pakistan. However, Babu Dhirendra Nath Dutta strongly espoused the cause of Bangla, amid much ...

In 1826, the English East India Company annexed Assam and integrated it into the Bengal Presidency. By 1836, Bengali was declared the official language and later became the medium of instruction.

For decades, not weeks as the recent discourse in Assam would have us believe, the people of Assam, especially its scholars and litterateurs, politicians and bureaucrats, media and activists, have ...