Wednesday marks International Mother Language Day, and members of the Bengali community came together for a celebration of ethnic heritage. The day aims to celebrate people from every country speaking ...
Veteran actor and BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty has launched a sharp attack on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over her recent remarks on the Bengali language. Responding to her comments, Chakraborty ...
In his foreword to Bernard Cohn's magisterial book Colonialism and its forms of knowledge, Nicholas Dirks commented that for the British, in India, "Language was to be mastered to issue commands and ...