This write-up describes my singular experience in translating Bengali short stories into English. However, all literary translations deal with certain common problems—of idiolect and dialect, or the ...

Oxford University Press has, for the first time, published an English-to-Bengali dictionary. KOLKATA: Oxford University Press has, for the first time, published an English-to-Bengali dictionary. It ...

Prepone” is now a word in the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. So is “airdash”. For those who squirm at the made-in-India opposite of “postpone”, the dictionary-makers say: “It enriches the ...

The announcement on October 10 came after the project received a generous contribution from Rudra Chatterjee, chairman of Obeetee Inc., a New Yorkbased home furnishings company, and managing director, ...

Bangla is what we native Bangalees call the language. And so that is what it should be known as. Just like Hindi, Urdu, or Tamil. So why not use the word Bangla globally, instead of "Bengali?" After ...