The assertion of Bengali identity and language forms the backdrop of several Durga Puja pandals this year, drawing from Bengal’s legacy, Partition, and recent crackdowns on Bengali-speaking people.
New Delhi [India], August 12 (ANI): Trinamool Congress MPs gathered at Makar Dwar outside the Parliament to voice their opposition against the alleged insult to Bengal. Prominent among the ...
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I was nervous about speaking my parents’ language Bengali, says Jhumpa Lahiri
For Jhumpa Lahiri, whose life and writing have been shaped by migration between continents and languages, the immigrant ...
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Bangla bolta hain manei Bangladeshi? The politics of language plaguing Bengalis across India
On Wednesday, 16 July, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee mobilised supporters in Kolkata to protest what she described as the “harassment” of Bengalis in ...
Writers, academics and poets on Monday said that although people sacrificed their lives for Bengali language in the 1952 language movement, still they failed to establish it at every level of the ...
We usually understand language as a means of communication between people. But language is not limited to communication alone; it also affects or shapes power structures and sociocultural identity. In ...
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