I invited Zakir Bengali to my neighborhood coffee klatch recently to help my neighbors learn about this candidate’s excellent qualifications to continue on the Frederick County Board of Education.

Sir — In the age of social media, a Bengali living in Calcutta knows more about sarson da saag than she does about aloo koraishuti diye shorshe shaak bhaja. While there is no denying that the Punjabi ...

These are Bengali translations of some of the letters of Roland Daniels to Karl Marx, written from 08 February to 01 June 1851, containing a narrative on human health, labour, technology, his ...

Kolkata: Trinamool MP and Bengal Migrant Workers Welfare Board chairman Samirul Islam has written to Union home minister Amit Shah, urging him to ensu.

Sir — Sensational literature always trumps classics. A recent crop of paranormal novels by popular authors has deeply divided Bengali readers. While one section is lapping up these gory tales, another ...

Many of these letters are written on different letterheads, including Visva-Bharati, the university Tagore founded in Santiniketan, his Uttarayan residence, Glen Eden in Darjeeling, and aboard his ...

Our Editorial Board Roundtable weighs in - and affixes our names to our opinions. ... Should writers of letters to the editor have the option of withholding their names when the letter is published?

Considering the fact that we have so many letters, there is a huge potential for Bangla calligraphy to be artistically expressive. Poster and wall writing has been a part of our cultural ...

In her letter to PM Modi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that Bengali is the second most spoken language in India and 7th most spoken in the world. The chief minister also ...

How the father of the modern Bengali alphabet made English compulsory in Kolkata’s historic Sanskrit College Several lesser-known facts have emerged over the translation of a book on the ...

NEW DELHI: In an open letter, over 650 eminent persons, including former judges, bureaucrats and ambassadors, have urged people of Bangladesh to continue being ...