The recently held exhibition along with the book launch event of Bornomala: Bangla Alphabet Book Collection by Sabyasachi Hazra was profoundly insightful. As an artist, researcher, and prolific book ...

It isn’t just languages that are endangered: dozens of alphabets around the world are at risk. And they could have even more to tell us. Eventually Nyeu managed to escape this cycle of bewilderment ...

"How many of today's generation would be able to name the 11 vowels and 40 consonants of the Bengali alphabet correctly?" asked Salma Adil, CFO of 'Top of Mind', to the audience. That brings to mind, ...

Among the power centres of Bangladesh, the status of Bangla is a little better at general universities. Bangla is used more in general universities than elsewhere and its status, too, is higher, if ...

A haat-e khari ceremony (learning to write the first letter of the Bengali alphabet) for Bengal governor C V Ananda Bose, organised at Raj Bhavan on the occasion of Saraswati Puja and Republic Day on ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and urged him to declare Bengali a classical language. In her letter, the Bengal CM requested the Prime ...

In Kolkata, a haate khari ceremony was held to learn to write the first letter of the Bengali alphabet for Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose. This ceremony sparked a political row with a role reversal of ...

The assertion of Bengali identity and language forms the backdrop of several Durga Puja pandals this year, drawing from Bengal’s legacy, Partition, and recent crackdowns on Bengali-speaking people.