Although there is a longstanding general perception that most school and college students have weak English language skills, Dhaka University’s recent admission test results show they are also ...

This movement backwards to find a knot to tie, to find traces of an origin and collect them in the space left hollow within me, is prompted by a prolonged, gnawing emotion of detachment and alienation ...

Apparently, Bengali (or Bangla) is the seventh spoken language in the world by population. By some statistics, its position is sixth, and even fifth in another! I am not elated by this because the ...

Kulsum Chowdhury (left) and her daughter Sophia Chowdhury from Melbourne spoke to SBS Bangla about the challenges of staying connected to the Bangla language and culture while living abroad. Their ...

Ahmed Rafiq, Language Movement veteran and researcher, fails to reconcile with the fact that Bangladesh still has not embedded Bangla at all levels 70 years into the history-bending event. In an ...

A group of Bangladeshi programmers have created a programming language written entirely in Bengali script. It’s called Potaka (Flag), and it’s aimed at encouraging children whose first language is ...

Language learning application Duolingo has launched a new Indian language course on its platform allowing users to learn English from Bengali. According to an official statement, the application is ...

“Language is patriarchal”-- this topic has received much attention from a gender studies perspective. Language is a powerful way to reinforce and normalize the dominance of men over women within socio ...

The West Bengal cabinet on Monday approved a proposal to make Bengali mandatory as a second language in private English medium schools, a senior official said. The cabinet meeting, chaired by chief ...