Two hip-hop icons deliver a heartwarming collaboration on Light-Years, the final installment in Mass Appeal's “Legend Has It…” series Yet the overriding feeling of Light-Years is of two elder ...

President Bola Tinubu, on Monday, congratulated former Minister of Information and Culture, Professor Jerry Gana, as he marked his 80th birthday. He described the former minister and mass-mobilisation ...

The BJP is using the 150th anniversary of India’s national song, “Vande Mataram,” to polarize society and win votes. In the run-up to the 2026 West Bengal assembly elections, Bangla or Bengali ...

Politics in West Bengal often revolves around the State’s cultural icons. Over the past few days, the two tallest names in the Bengal literary world — Rabindranath Tagore and Bankim Chandra ...

From Tagore to Satyajit Ray, the masters of Bengali literature have explored supernatural stories that attained cult status among readers It is that time of the year when the 14th night of the waning ...

Bengali meals traditionally begin with a bitter dish to stimulate digestion and palate. Ayurveda values bitterness for balancing doshas and aiding liver detoxification. Popular bitter dishes include ...

The Hindi version of the composition was adopted as the ‘National Anthem of India’ on January 24, 1950, through an announcement by Dr Rajendra Prasad. The official playing time of ‘Jana Gana Mana’ is ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee on Sunday lashed out at the Delhi Police for referring to the Bengali language as "Bangladeshi national language" in a purported letter, alleging that it was ...

Highlighting that the Human Rights Watch (HRW), an international human rights organisation, has raised the issues of harassment, persecution, and illegal deportation of Bengali-speaking people of ...

The North American Bengali Conference (NABC), a long-running cultural event celebrating Bengali heritage, is returning to Toronto this summer after more than a decade. Scenes from a Bengali cultural ...

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 ...