In her letter to PM Modi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that Bengali is the second most spoken language in India and 7th most spoken in the world. The chief minister also mentioned ...

Apparently, Bengali (or Bangla) is the seventh spoken language in the world by population. By some statistics, its position is sixth, and even fifth in another! I am not elated by this because the ...

In his foreword to Bernard Cohn's magisterial book Colonialism and its forms of knowledge, Nicholas Dirks commented that for the British, in India, "Language was to be mastered to issue commands and ...

Delhi Police mentions Bengali as 'Bangladeshi National Language' in an official letter. Mamata Banerjee and MK Stalin alleges the BJP government of insulting Bengal. BJP alleges TMC of defending ...