Unpacking the politics of language in Pakistan apart from its symbolic and cultural significance as identity markers ...

As Bangladesh marks Amar Ekushey today, remembering the martyrs who defied Pakistan’s linguistic oppression in 1952, the ...

Bengali people in East Pakistan protested against the imposition of Urdu as the national language, which led to the martyrdom ...

THE history of Bangladesh’s independence is deeply rooted in the Language Movement of 1952, a struggle that set the stage for an eventual liberation from the oppressive regime of West Pakistan. This ...

Mother tongue-based education as a lifelong learning imperative ...

KARACHI: The Federal Urdu University of Arts, Science, and Technology (FUUAST), in collaboration with Kazan Federal ...

The three-day literary festival features foreign and local authors and other cultural figures, discussing a myriad of topics.

Seventy three years ago today was among the most significant days in our history, which all but shaped Bangladesh. It was on ...

This year marks the 73rd anniversary of the 1952 Language Movement. Drawing on research based on various published books, this 21-part series tells the story of the historic struggle for our mother ...

Celebrating linguistic diversity, preserving cultural heritage, and promoting multilingualism worldwide, International Mother ...

The Urdu Adab’s special issue on Mir Taqi Mir acknowledges a past mistake of censorship and rectifies it by publishing, for the first time, the complete unabridged text of ‘Zikr-i Mir’, the poet’s ...

Writer, researcher and historian Badruddin Umar has said Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had no role in the Language Movement, but ...