Language
REFLECTIONS / Baby killed/baby found dead: On the use and abuse of language
To the politicians and their vetoes and dismissals of any proposals that might bring some change—what language do you use with them? What of their language that otherises an entire people to dehumanise them?
REFLECTIONS / Bangalis and the “cutification” of English
On a single visit to the Chadni Chowk gully at the Gawsia/New Market area, I had witnessed, store by store, the gradual devolvement of the name for Mysore cotton to Maisha cotton.
Poetry / Tongue
I heard myself speak today It made me want to Cut out my tongue.
Italicisation policing, penning with a colonised mind
When a foreign word—one that isn’t part of the language in which the text is being written—is highlighted in italics in a work of literature, it becomes “other.”
Of translation
The challenge of untranslatability is something that the translator has to contend with throughout the process of the enterprise.
India turns to AI to capture its 121 languages
There are more than 40 million native Kannada speakers in India, and it is one of the country's 22 official languages and one of over 121 languages spoken by 10,000 people or more in the world's most populous nation.
International Translation Day / The question of translation
There is no denying the truism that translation historically served the best interest of the colonisers.
The "original and thrilling": The Booker Prizes announces 2023 longlist
The novels are small revolutions, each seeking to energise and awaken the language. Together, they offer startling portraits of the current.
A personal quest to explore the core essence of ‘Bengaliness’
We Bengalis are very much part of a collectivist society, where ‘private’ matters are communal, and everyone can have some opinions about ‘other’s business. We describe that as our own unique way of looking after each other and maintaining ‘social well beings’.
Don’t worry over Teesta: Mamata
Visiting West Bengal Chief Mamata Banerjee says Bangladesh need not worry over Teesta water-sharing deal and the issue will be resolved soon
HOW A LANGUAGE DIES
February 21 marks an important day – a date marked by blood and tears of those who stood steadfast as their voices were on the verge of being silenced.
