One may or not take what Mamata Banerjee says very seriously all the time (provided one can unscramble her choice of words), but when she declares open war on the BJP for trying to finish off the ...

Robin Chakma* and his family fled their ancestral home in Rangamati, a town in southeastern Bangladesh to escape sectarian violence between Bengali Muslims and tribal groups on Sept. 19. He and his ...

In a bizarre recent development, the Delhi Police, in an official FIR, claimed that alleged illegal Bangladeshi residents in the city were communicating in “Bangladeshi” language rather than Bengali.

On International Mother Language Day, February 21, the focus turns to linguistic pride and preservation. For Bengalis across the world, social media has become the new classroom and adda space. From ...