Dalit writing in Bangla does not appear as well known as similar writing in Marathi, where dalit literature served as a vehicle and repository of underprivileged angst. However, as this article ...

With the government en route to fully realizing the “Digital Bangladesh” mantra, companies are seeing a huge rise in demand for Bangla script online. This is evident from Google Play Store, where ...

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 ...

United Nations Development Program (UNDP), on International Mother's Language day, has launched the Unicode version, with seven different iterations, of the UN Bangla font to ease access to the ...

For years, Bangla writers and speakers have struggled with spelling and grammar errors in their written communication. But a new tool called Shothik aims to change that. In the world of online ...

Students from schools across Kolkata attended the workshop and learned to stylise the letters and get a sense of the origins of the Bengali alphabet Interesting creatives of the events, displaying old ...

Women in Concert: An Anthology of Bengali Muslim Women's Writings, 1904-1938 edited by Shaheen Akhtar & Moushumi Bhowmik (Kolkata: "Stree" Publication), October 2008 and English translation of the ...

'Language and interaction are crucial forms of treatment,’ says Melbourne author Sanya Rushdi Her novel Hospital was originally written in Bangla and offers a fictionalised account of her experiences ...