The team behind Shabdakalpa, anchored at the School of Cultural Texts and Records in Jadavpur University, believes that it would be the first historical dictionary for a non-Latin script, tracing the ...

A language is considered to be standardized when it has gone through substantial phases of codification which, consequently, results in people of a powerful socio-economic class endorsing it as the ...

Bangla is what we native Bangalees call the language. And so that is what it should be known as. Just like Hindi, Urdu, or Tamil. So why not use the word Bangla globally, instead of "Bengali?" After ...

What if two beautiful Indian languages slowly merged through poetry, devotion, and culture? One was born in the spiritual ...

One word that has gone missing from our Bengali vocabulary is “palpitation”. I say Bengali because the familiarity with which it was used in Bengali middle-class homes made it lose its foreignness.

India’s West Bengal election revealed silent inequality long hidden beneath the language of secular Bengali identity ...

The government has taken extensive measures to modernize the use of the Bangla language in the digital sphere. As part of a string of initiatives to facilitate the use of Bangla on digital platforms ...

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