The grave of model Sonika Singh Chauhan has suffered multiple incidents of desecration, recently. Sonika reportedly died in an accident on Rashbehari Avenue on April 29, 2017, when she was travelling ...

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 ...

These are Bengali translations of some of the letters of Roland Daniels to Karl Marx, written from 08 February to 01 June 1851, containing a narrative on human health, labour, technology, his ...

Some days ago the High Court issued a rule on the government to explain in two weeks why it should not be directed to use Bengali in all sectors including offices and courts of the country. The court ...

I thought that 'H' would be read as H or E, but when a police officer in Uzbekistan memorized my passport number, he said "N" without changing his face complexion. The common sense up to now has been ...

Six figures walked to the edge of a dimly lit stage and squatted on the floor. Each had a chheni or chisel in one hand and a haturi or hammer in the other. They brought the hammers down on the chisels ...

Bangla SMS or mobile messages must be sent in Bangla letters to subscribers, according to a notice issued by the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission. Besides, it also ordered the mobile ...