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 ...

Dr John Hood has translated more than a dozen books directly from Bangla to English, in addition to his original writings on Bangla literature, film and history. Dr. John Hood has been writing and ...

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 ...

Oxford University Press has, for the first time, published an English-to-Bengali dictionary. KOLKATA: Oxford University Press has, for the first time, published an English-to-Bengali dictionary. It ...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today said in the global village one needs to learn other languages but the mother tongue must never be neglected. "The world is now a global village. To live here, to ...

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 ...