(MENAFN- IANS) Kolkata, Oct 3 (IANS) West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday evening expressed pleasure after Bangla (Bengali) was accorded the status of classical language by the Union ...
Kolkata's National Library of India recently hosted a two-day international seminar celebrating Bangla's new status as a classical language. Governor C.V. Ananda Bose inaugurated the event, ...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called upon the authorities concerned for translating classical Bangla literature for world readers. The premier came up with the urge at the inaugural ceremony of the ...
On the eve of Poila Baisakh, Bengali New Year’s Day, the question of Bengali asmita hangs heavy in the air. Is it under siege? If so, from where? Is the eclectic, pluralist soul of Bengal’s culture ...