Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami chief and the leader of the opposition in the parliament, Dr Shafiqur Rahman, today called for ensuring the use of Bangla at all levels of state and social life. “February ...

Every time I hear my mother tongue, Bangla, something inside me softens. It feels like home, even when home is far away — just as it does for so many immigrants. A mother language is the first ...

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 ...

On the last weekend in January, Drexel’s Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Abhijit Chowdhury gave a two-day workshop for members of Kushilob, an eastern Pennsylvania-based Bengali language community ...

Through songs, stories, smiles and solemn observations, nearly 100 members of the area’s Bengali community gathered at the Lansdale Bangla School – established in 2011 inside the Zion Presbyterian ...