In academia, the status of English is often contested in the Bangladeshi context. Is it a second language or a foreign language? There should not be any such question about our first language, our ...

What’s common between Bengali words like ‘batela’, ‘bikel’, ‘nyaka’, ‘mairi’ and ‘abhimaan’? Most of them are apparently ‘untranslatable’ when it comes to subtitling films or translating literary ...