MOHI KHAN’S heart broke when he saw a Bangladeshi mother trying to communicate with her son’s teacher outside the local elementary school. “The mother could only speak Bengali,” said Khan, one of the ...

Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples of how media committed to building community and defending human rights can positively influence how people experience events ...

Among the power centres of Bangladesh, the status of Bangla is a little better at general universities. Bangla is used more in general universities than elsewhere and its status, too, is higher, if ...

This movement backwards to find a knot to tie, to find traces of an origin and collect them in the space left hollow within me, is prompted by a prolonged, gnawing emotion of detachment and alienation ...

Shayna Mobin (left) and Sanuvar Sultana perform at the International Mother Language Day in Irving. Steve Hamm / Special Contributor Language and independence are intertwined in Bangladesh, so it's ...

Buxar: A total of 45 students from classes VI to X at Kendriya Vidyalaya, Buxar, are learning Bangla as part of a seven-day Indian Language Summer Camp, which began on May 26 and will run till June ...