Regional language books account for 60% of India's new book sales. Yet the literary conversation happens almost entirely in ...

In a telling shift in political messaging, the BJP’s Brigade Parade Ground rally here on Saturday showcased an unusual fusion of Hindutva and Bengali cultural identity, signalling the party’s attempt ...

People with limited English are significantly more likely to understand the true aim of cancer treatment when given a bilingual consent form, with understanding rising from 35% to 60%, a new study ...

Rob H. Aft's English translation makes accessible for Indians who do not know French Désirée Sylvain-Lévi's epistolary ...

Dear Reader, Reading Amitav Ghosh’s Ghost-Eye left me flabbergasted, if not outraged. I could not believe that, in the ...

Philly has a broad translator community that allows English speakers to consume work from many different countries and ...

In the times when one is deprived of a genuine horror comedy, Bhooth Bangla promises to bring back the legacy created by Akshay Kumar and Priyadarshan with Bhool Bhulaiyaa that was set up almost two ...

YouTube has introduced automatic dubbing to translate a video’s spoken audio into different languages, allowing viewers to listen instead of reading captions. The feature works directly inside ...

A furious Mamata Banerjee snapped back at the Bharatiya Janata Party as the 'Bengali vs Bangladeshi' language war - triggered over the weekend by Delhi Police's letter referring to the translation of ...

Panchanan Karmakar’s creation led to the printing of the first Bengali language book, and his legacy will soon be showcased to Kolkata Hidden in the lanes of Serampore is the ancestral home and the ...

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 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Anyone who grew up in a multilingual society intuitively understands the value of translation, and translators.