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 ...

Want to make money? Turns out it pays to be bilingual—or at least to learn a second language, according to a recent survey by Preply, an online learning platform that connects students with online ...

The signboard of a train from Kacheguda in Hyderabad to Bengaluru, written in Telugu, Hindi and Kannada. | Adityamadhav83, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons It was 2015. I had finished my PhD in ...

A group of Bangladeshi programmers have created a programming language written entirely in Bengali script. It’s called Potaka (Flag), and it’s aimed at encouraging children whose first language is ...

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 ...