Actress Payal Ghosh, who’s known for her work in the Hindi and South regional film industry, is currently helping her co-actor Krushna Abhishek learn Bengali for certain scenes in their upcoming film ...

In his foreword to Bernard Cohn's magisterial book Colonialism and its forms of knowledge, Nicholas Dirks commented that for the British, in India, "Language was to be mastered to issue commands and ...

The partition of British India in 1947 posed significant challenges to the state-building process in both India and Pakistan, including in Bengal, which faced the complexities of being divided between ...

Actor Saswata Chatterjee is a prominent name in both the Bengali and Hindi film industries, synonymous with thriller and fictional characters. Whether it was as Bob Biswas in Kahaani or Commander ...

Kolkata: Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the granting of classical language status to Bengali, in a meeting chaired by PM Narendra Modi. Similar status was given to Assamese, Marathi, Pali and ...