Amar Ekushe 2023
What goes on in the minds of multilinguals
Multilingualism is a remarkable feat that demonstrates the incredible adaptability of the human brain.
How I learned the magnificence of Bangla through lyrics translation
Bangla has taught us how to properly imitate our minds through words and expressions with its presence.
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,
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.
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.
An unexplored facet of the language movement’s historiography
It is February 2002, the month of the fiftieth anniversary of our language movement.
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.
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.”
