This write-up describes my singular experience in translating Bengali short stories into English. However, all literary translations deal with certain common problems—of idiolect and dialect, or the ...

In a new Translating India series, ten noted translators will share their experiences of translating from their respective languages. In the final part, Arunava Sinha writes how for him the greatest ...

Prepone” is now a word in the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. So is “airdash”. For those who squirm at the made-in-India opposite of “postpone”, the dictionary-makers say: “It enriches the ...

The perception that English Medium students in Bangladesh are incapable of speaking Bangla properly is fairly common. There appears to be a constant grievance amongst the older populace that through ...

The announcement on October 10 came after the project received a generous contribution from Rudra Chatterjee, chairman of Obeetee Inc., a New Yorkbased home furnishings company, and managing director, ...

Oxford University Press has, for the first time, published an English-to-Bengali dictionary. KOLKATA: Oxford University Press has, for the first time, published an English-to-Bengali dictionary. It ...

– No, I mean who’s the man standing with him? – That gentleman killed my father – Tapan gazed at the photograph in silence. He moved closer to it, as if the light in the room was dim. It was an old ...

The One Legged is an affecting translation of Sakyajit Bhattacharya’s Bengali novel Ekanore. The translator, Rituparna Mukherjee, evokes the haunting sights, smells and sounds of this fictional world ...

Dhaka, Nov 1 (BDNEWS)- Full-fledged holy Quran with Bangla and English version is now available on Internet. A local Quran Hadith research organization prepared the website titled ...