Bengali cinema's reliance on authentic dialects is waning, with many films now reducing regional speech to mere markers for domestic workers. Directors and actors once treated dialect as a core ...

For a generation of Calcuttans who grew up in the 1990s and early 2000s, Anjan Dutt was less a celebrity and more a ...

For the first time in history, language evolution is partly being steered by machines trained on digital data.

CBSE Class 10 English Question Paper 2026 will be available here after the exam. Check this article to download the question ...

Explore Mahasweta Devi`s powerful literary works and how they`ve been adapted into cinema. Discover the challenges and triumphs of bringing her stories of tribal struggles to the screen.

Hajong does not behave neatly. It lives in a strange middle space: historically shaped by Tibeto-Burman roots but now an Eastern Indo-Aryan language, carrying traces of both worlds in its bones. The ...

Acclaimed author Mani Shankar Mukherjee, better known as Shankar, the top-selling Bengali author since the 1960s, passed away in a hospital off EM Byp.

Mani Shankar Mukherjee, or Sankar, who passed away on Friday morning at a private hospital at the age of 92, embodied all of this and more ...

At the other end of the phone, Chattopadhyay, Sankar’s contemporary and friend, gathered himself and said: “Does it really ...

The Martyrs Day and the International Mother Language Day will be observed on Saturday, February 21, marking the 74th ...

A shining light of Bengali literature has dimmed with the passing of renowned writer Mani Sankar Mukhopadhyay, affectionately known to readers as “Sankar,” who died on Friday afternoon at the age of ...

The Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka has been decorated ahead of this year’s Shaheed Day — Language Martyrs’ Day — internationally observed as International Mother Language Day. Final preparations ...