Kolkata: Stressing on unity in diversity, CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said that commonly used words by people enrich a language. Banerjee, while attending an event on International Mother Language ...

The film 'Dekh Kemon Lage' is a home production of Bengali actor Prosenjit Chatterjee. Kolkata: After raising objection to words like 'cow', 'Hindutva' in a documentary on nobel laureate Amartya Sen, ...

A month-long campaign, "Nikhoj Shobder Khoje", to encourage the young generation to reconnect with those Bangla words that have been missing from the language for a long time, was launched at Bishwo ...

The team behind Shabdakalpa, anchored at the School of Cultural Texts and Records in Jadavpur University, believes that it would be the first historical dictionary for a non-Latin script, tracing the ...

Did you know ‘Da-Ri’, which means ‘beard’ in Bengali is the word for ‘legs’ in Korean? And ‘Mo-Ja’, which is the word for ‘socks’ in Bengali, means a ‘hat’ or ‘cap’ in Korean? After enthralling her ...

A few months ago, a cultural event in Kolkata centred on the Bengali word heyro. Loosely translated as “loser,” the programme leaned playfully into a familiar trope: the Bengali as a brilliant but ...

On the eve of the Independence Day, Bangalee volunteers contributed around seven lakh Bangla words and phrases to Google Translate breaking a record. This was the highest number of inputs to Google's ...