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 ...

International Mother Language Day, which falls on 21 February, has been recognised by the UN since 1999. However, this celebration of cultural and linguistic diversity has its roots in a 1950s ...

Growing up in a bicultural household, I was exposed to two languages, two cultures, as a child. I picked up both the languages as my mother tongue—Bangla and Rakhine. Eventually, a third language, ...

Out of the 123 students of Belbari Government Primary School in Dinajpur Sadar Upazila, 30 are from ethnic minority groups, mostly Santal. But they do not have textbooks in their languages, and no ...