Mithu Sanyal never learned her father's native language, Bengali, as a child. Is it too late to reclaim it? Do you want to know a secret? A secret so shameful that I hid it for decades? It's only ...

Bengali can be studied as a second language, however, most students choose Hindi or another language instead. Students are not adequately learning Bengali as a result. Bengali is Now Compulsory ...

Sir — It has become easy to learn new languages — be it gathering a working knowledge from watching foreign-language TV shows or on applications like Duolingo, Bab­bel and Rosetta Stone. However, ...

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 ...

Buxar: A total of 45 students from classes VI to X at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Buxar, are learning Bangla as part of a seven-day Indian Language Summer Camp, which began on May 26 and will run till June ...

Though language helps us get to the root of finding meaning in our existence, we have long neglected learning Bangla properly in Bangladesh's education system. The rapid decline in the quality of ...

Mithu Sanyal tried to reclaim her father's language, Bengali, as an adult (Credit: Carolin Windel) Mithu Sanyal never learned her father's native language, Bengali, as a child. Is it too late to ...