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 ...

Kolkata: The National Library of India (NLI) is set to celebrate the recent recognition of Bengali as a classical language, a historic moment for the language and its rich literary tradition. NLI, ...

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 ...

Several members of the film and music fraternity in Bengal have taken exception to a purported Delhi Police letter referring Bengali as the “Bangladeshi national language”, calling it an affront to a ...

Bengali is our mother tongue, our state language. In 1952, Rafiq, Jabbar, Salam, Barkat and Safiur shed fresh blood to protect the dignity of mother language. In return for their great sacrifice, we ...

BJP leaders, including Amit Malviya, defended calling Bengali a “Bangladeshi language” in the context of identifying infiltrators. There is no officially recognized language called “Bangladeshi.” ...