Although Rammohun Roy was notably many things, he was not an unlikely person to write a grammar—or, in fact, two grammars: one in English and one in Bangla, the latter being a free translation of the ...

Although there is a longstanding general perception that most school and college students have weak English language skills, Dhaka University’s recent admission test results show they are also ...

Kulsum Chowdhury (left) and her daughter Sophia Chowdhury from Melbourne spoke to SBS Bangla about the challenges of staying connected to the Bangla language and culture while living abroad. Their ...

The West Bengal cabinet on Monday approved a proposal to make Bengali mandatory as a second language in private English medium schools, a senior official said. The cabinet meeting, chaired by chief ...

Apparently, Bengali (or Bangla) is the seventh spoken language in the world by population. By some statistics, its position is sixth, and even fifth in another! I am not elated by this because the ...

Bengali can be studied as a second language, however, most students choose Hindi or another language instead. Students are not adequately learning Bengali as a result. Bengali is Now Compulsory ...

Ahmed Rafiq, Language Movement veteran and researcher, fails to reconcile with the fact that Bangladesh still has not embedded Bangla at all levels 70 years into the history-bending event. In an ...

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