Actress Aahana Kumra loves Bengali food and the culture of Kolkata. Aahana, who spent a lot of time in Kolkata, says she misses both. “I spend a lot of time in Kolkata and I am surrounded by Bengalis.

Parambrata Chattopadhyay opened up about Bengali film industry not reaching out to different regions of the country. He also commented on the influence of mother tongue in language. Parambrata ...

Bangla is what we native Bangalees call the language. And so that is what it should be known as. Just like Hindi, Urdu, or Tamil. So why not use the word Bangla globally, instead of "Bengali?" After ...

Ekushey February is the embodiment of our Bengali identity -- the fight for our right to speak our language, to be proud of our heritage. Being able to speak in our mother tongue - whether Bangla or ...

Directors Shiboprosad Mukherjee and Nandita Roy have ushered in a new wave of Bengali cinema in the last decade. With Bela Seshe, Praktan and Haami, the director duo have made a mark with their ...

Sazia Mehnaz, a former student of the Department of Linguistics at Dhaka University, recently won an international award for her research work on the Bengali language. For her postgraduate research on ...