Bengali as a vehicle of abstract thought

Buddhadeva Bose in one of his essays expresses the opinion that Bengali prose, “in less than a couple of centuries has achieved remarkable maturity.”
20 February 2023, 18:00 PM

Remembering Zahir Raihan: A Language Activist and Trailblazer

In 1954, when  I was admitted into the Dhaka University Bengali honours course after an interview with Dr Muhammad Shahidullah, a host of talented fellows were to be my friends in the next four years.
20 February 2023, 18:00 PM

An unexplored facet of the language movement’s historiography

It is February 2002, the month of the fiftieth anniversary of our language movement.
20 February 2023, 18:00 PM

Tale of Bangla College: Pioneering use of Bengali as a medium of higher education

On September 1, 1947, a group of students and faculty members at Dhaka University established Tamaddun Majlish, a cultural organization aimed at promoting the Bengali language.
20 February 2023, 18:00 PM

The Battle over Punthi Sahitya’s Legacy: Abdul Karim’s Perspective

Abdul Karim Sahitya Bisharad passed away in 1953, just a year after the historic language movement.
20 February 2023, 18:00 PM

The missionaries and the evolution of the Bengali language

In his foreword to Bernard Cohn’s magisterial book Colonialism and its forms of knowledge, Nicholas Dirks commented that for the British, in India,
20 February 2023, 18:00 PM