A lot of debate already exists out there on which keyboard is the better one when it comes to typing in Bangla. There are two options among typing software. On one hand, you have Bijoy, the first ...

Growing up in our part of the world in the second half of the 20th century, and fed on a diet of popular fiction, comic books, TV "nature" documentaries and Hollywood films, who amongst us did not ...

This write-up describes my singular experience in translating Bengali short stories into English. However, all literary translations deal with certain common problems—of idiolect and dialect, or the ...

With the government en route to fully realizing the “Digital Bangladesh” mantra, companies are seeing a huge rise in demand for Bangla script online. This is evident from Google Play Store, where ...

Bengali writer Binayak Banerjee is one of 15 participants from as many countries across the world to be selected for the prestigious International Writing Program (IWP) at University of Iowa. KOLKATA: ...

Students from schools across Kolkata attended the workshop and learned to stylise the letters and get a sense of the origins of the Bengali alphabet Interesting creatives of the events, displaying old ...

Debesh Roy, who died in Kolkata on Thursday, May 14, at the age of 83, was never a writer for the masses. On the contrary fellow writers labelled him an “author of authors”. He resisted being called ...