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 ...

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 ...

SBS Bangla’s local contributor, Munasib Hamid, spoke with Sophia Chowdhury, a second-generation Bangladeshi Australian from ...

One word that has gone missing from our Bengali vocabulary is “palpitation”. I say Bengali because the familiarity with which it was used in Bengali middle-class homes made it lose its foreignness.

Bangla is what we native Bangalees call the language. And so that is what it should be known as. Just like Hindi, Urdu, or Tamil. So why not use the word Bangla globally, instead of "Bengali?" After ...

Mithu Sanyal tried to reclaim her father's language, Bengali, as an adult (Credit: Carolin Windel) Mithu Sanyal never learned her father's native language, Bengali, as a child. Is it too late to ...