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 ...

The West Bengal Chief Minister, Mamata Banerjee, has taken strong objection to a letter by the Delhi police describing Bangla, or Bengali, as a “Bangladeshi” language and called for strong protests on ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari on Monday (July 20, 2026) announced that starting from September 1, the State Government will give priority to the Bengali language in all official ...

The partition of British India in 1947 posed significant challenges to the state-building process in both India and Pakistan, including in Bengal, which faced the complexities of being divided between ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday asserted that no one should try to play with or insult the Bengali language, asking whether there can be an India without West Bengal. Banerjee ...

Bengali, or Bangla, is often called the "Sweetest Language in the World." UNESCO declared February 21st as International Mother Language Day in 1952. Over 300 million people speak Bengali, ranking it ...

South Korean YouTuber Lee Jun-hak fell in love with Bengali culture and language when he arrived in India in 2016 for his university studies. While pursuing a degree majoring in Hindi, Lee picked up ...

Shop owners, hotels and other establishments in the city must display their names in Bengali alongside other languages of their choice, or face having their signboards removed by the Kolkata Municipal ...

என் தாய்மொழியை நினைத்து பெருமைக் கொள்கிறேன். Linguistic politics has been a central theme of Indian democracy. The Visalandhra movement and the demise of veteran freedom fighter ...