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 ...

KOLKATA: ‘‘If you want to learn English, think in English, speak in English, dream in English’’ – went the old saying. But not any more. Let alone dreaming in the language, the new credo here is ...

Prepone” is now a word in the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. So is “airdash”. For those who squirm at the made-in-India opposite of “postpone”, the dictionary-makers say: “It enriches the ...

The perception that English Medium students in Bangladesh are incapable of speaking Bangla properly is fairly common. There appears to be a constant grievance amongst the older populace that through ...

For most Bangladeshi parents, choosing between English-medium and Bangla-medium schools isn’t a rivalry. It is more a matter ...

The West Bengal Cabinet on Monday approved a proposal to make Bengali compulsory as a second language in private English medium schools, reported PTI. “Though there are options to study Bengali as a ...

Is language a deciding factor for the theatre audience in the city? Or is the branding of English theatre as niche going against its acceptablity by a majority? Here’s the front-row view to all that’s ...

RON JACOBS applauds a reading of black history in the US that plots the path from autonomy to self-governance and then liberation THE albums of pianist Zoe Rahman are some of the jewels of British ...