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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

A pop culture enthusiast, Konika is a beauty writer who loves exploring all things makeup and skincare. She has previously written for publications like Grazia India.

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 ...