Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples of how media committed to building community and defending human rights can positively influence how people experience events ...

The American Institute of Bangladesh Studies (AIBS) is delighted to announce the intensive, immersion-based Bangla language training program. This program offers participants an excellent opportunity ...

A group of Bangladeshi programmers have created a programming language written entirely in Bengali script. It’s called Potaka (Flag), and it’s aimed at encouraging children whose first language is ...

In his foreword to Bernard Cohn's magisterial book Colonialism and its forms of knowledge, Nicholas Dirks commented that for the British, in India, "Language was to be mastered to issue commands and ...

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 ...