It is from the 1950s that autobiographical writing became popular among Bengali writers, looking for plots in their own lives rather than creating them with imagination, observation of social and ...

There are two countries where Bengali is taught seriously at an undergraduate level: Japan and China. In Japan, the University of Foreign Studies in Tokyo offers a four-year Bengali language ...

Mithu Sanyal tried to reclaim her father's language, Bengali, as an adult (Credit: Carolin Windel) Mithu Sanyal never learned her father's native language, Bengali, as a child. Is it too late to ...

Leading Bengali-language streamer Hoichoi is expanding into the feature film production business with Hoichoi Studios. The new studio plans to use the learnings gleaned from six years as a ...

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 ...

Although more than half of the people in ‘East Pakistan’ spoke Bangla, the government of Pakistan declared Urdu as the official language, only sanctioning the use of Bangla in Arabic script.