KOLKATA: ‘‘If you want to learn English, think in English, speak in English, dream in English’’ – went the old saying. But not any more. Let alone dreaming in the language, the new credo here is ...

Bengali is the seventh most spoken language in the world, with 250 million native speakers of a total of 300 million. It is considered as one of the primary vernacular languages in India and the ...

West Bengal Governor CV Anand Bose performed 'Hatey Khari', a ritual to teach the Bengali alphabet to a child, on the occasion of Saraswati Puja on Thursday in presence of Chief Minister Mamata ...

A haat-e khari ceremony (learning to write the first letter of the Bengali alphabet) for Bengal governor C V Ananda Bose, organised at Raj Bhavan on the occasion of Saraswati Puja and Republic Day on ...

West Bengal Governor C. V. Ananda Bose’s participation in ‘Hatey Khori’, a ceremony of learning Bengali alphabets as part of the Saraswati Puja, in the presence of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, has ...

Students from schools across Kolkata attended the workshop and learned to stylise the letters and get a sense of the origins of the Bengali alphabet Interesting creatives of the events, displaying old ...

It isn’t just languages that are endangered: dozens of alphabets around the world are at risk. And they could have even more to tell us. Eventually Nyeu managed to escape this cycle of bewilderment ...