Hajong does not behave neatly. It lives in a strange middle space: historically shaped by Tibeto-Burman roots but now an Eastern Indo-Aryan language, carrying traces of both worlds in its bones. The ...

With more than 8,000 languages spoken globally, many are endangered due to globalisation and cultural assimilation.

Eminent Bengali author Mani Sankar Mukherjee, better known by his pen name ‘Sankar’, whose works transformed the mundane realities of urban life into timeless narratives and were adapted into films by ...

The Central Shaheed Minar in Dhaka has been decorated ahead of this year’s Shaheed Day — Language Martyrs’ Day — internationally observed as International Mother Language Day. Final preparations ...

Bengali author Mani Shankar Mukherjee, better known by his pen name ’Shankar’, whose works transformed the mundane realities ...

Baul music -- the wandering, mystical sound of Bengal’s soil -- has long belonged to akhras, village courtyards and spiritual gatherings. Now, it is travelling somewhere unexpected: into the laptops ...

BHOPAL: No stranger to controversy, with 105 criminal cases registered against him, former BJP leader and sitting Telangana MLA, T Raja Singh, created.

This election is the first following the 2024 July uprising that led to the ouster of the country’s longest-serving prime ...

To market Bhooth Bangla, Akshay Kumar and Priyadarshan are skipping trailers to debut a massive musical number alongside ...

The election was held alongside a nationwide constitutional referendum on the implementation of the July Charter. Given a simple “yes” or “no” choice, a substantial majority of voters chose to endorse ...

In an interview with ThePrint, Nitai Roy Chowdhury said that the 2026 election has shown that language and culture bind Bangladeshis more than religion.