A lot of translations are being done in Bangladesh, from English into Bangla and Bangla into English; much of the latter by native Bangla speakers. While native Bangla speakers may have had 12 years ...

The surge in demand for translation services has led to the development of various efficient tools and apps like Google Translate, Translate app, and LingvaNex Translator. These resources offer ...

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 ...

In 1795, Gerasim Stepanovich Lebedev (or Herasim Lebedeff), a Russian musician and newly turned linguistic translator did something unique in Calcutta. For the first time, a play written in English, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Anyone who grew up in a multilingual society intuitively understands the value of translation, and translators.

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 ...

Bengali is not so much threatened by Hindi as other indigenous local languages of West Bengal are by Bengali, and not much effort is being made to save them, according to an award-winning ...

Meaningful and thought-provoking theatre with socio-political relevance has been a deep-rooted tradition in different language groups of the Indian subcontinent since ages. In this context Bengali ...

It was joyful because, for over two decades, my touch with Tamil, after moving from Chennai, was minimal. I speak little Tamil — to friends or family — and watch Tamil movies sporadically, and read ...

SINGAPORE: It was midnight on Apr 14 when a sense of dread filled Sudesna Roy Chowdhury as she absorbed the breaking news: A record number of new COVID-19 cases in Singapore, with the vast majority of ...