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 ...

Every year the Amar Ekushey Book Fair honours those who became martyrs on February 21, 1952 in the Language Movement by showcasing the depth of the Bangla language and literature, serving as an emblem ...

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, ...

'Academy', as many of us know, is a word that comes from the French word 'academie', evolving from Latin 'academia'—the ultimate ancestor of both being Greek 'akademeia'. Originally, it was a place ...

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asking the Centre to officially list Bengali as a "classical language". The Chief Minister said that based on ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and urged him to declare Bengali a classical language. In her letter, the Bengal CM requested the Prime ...