Bangla is one of the approximately seven thousand languages spoken worldwide, with around 250 million native speakers in Bangladesh and West Bengal. In terms of the number of native speakers, it ranks ...

A phrase begins to circulate almost casually on a social media platform. By the next day, it is everywhere—spoken, typed, laughed over and argued about. The phrase is slightly absurd, two words fused ...

More than half a century after the birth of Bangladesh, the question of Bengali identity is entering a new phase. For decades, the narrative appeared settled: linguistic nationalism drove the ...