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.

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.

Gadgil and Béteille never met, and largely knew of one another through their mutual friend, this writer. And yet, looking at their careers in the round, I think I can see striking similarities ...

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 ...

While much of India debates whether Lucknowi, Hyderabadi or Kolkata biryani is superior, Bengal’s argument has turned inward: which local biryani deserves loyalty now as the new contenders challenge ...

The distinguished Bengali novelist Mani Shankar Mukhopadhyay, popularly known as 'Shankar', passed away at a local hospital ...

Veteran Bengali author Mani Shankar Mukhopadhyay, popularly known by his pen name Shankar, passed away on Friday (February 20 ...

Sankar's Passing: Renowned Bengali author Mani Sankar Mukherjee, affectionately referred to as Sankar by countless fans, has ...

Eminent Bengali author Mani Shankar Mukherjee, known as Shankar, passed away at 92. His novels, like 'Chowringhee,' captured ...

Iconic Bengali litterateur Mani Sankar Mukherjee, known to millions simply as Sankar, has died, leaving behind an ...