In this strange and isolating year, reacquainting myself with Sylheti gave me a new understanding of my family I never understood the Bengali girls at my London school who were proudly monolingual. “I ...

One of the earliest childhood memories that I posses took place on the kindergarten playground. It was a crisp Michigan fall day and I was wearing an oversize pink windbreaker. My black curly hair was ...

For many years during my childhood, both my maternal and paternal grandparents would live with us, alternating every six months. As a kid, this meant I had built-in friends — I grew up on a steady ...

I grew up in London and English is the language I use most often, but Bengali embodies my sense of who I am, so I want to ensure my daughter can speak it too When I was pregnant, I didn’t think about ...

Vidya Balan, who started her career with a Bengali film, is doing a second one now for director Gautam Haldar and feels the experience is like going back to her roots. Vidya Balan is elated. The ...

When I jolted awake from the nightmare, it dawned on me that this year marks the 70th anniversary of Ekushey February. At the time of writing this article, it has been a few months since I moved ...

Once upon a time, a very long time ago, King Shashanka of Gaur (Gauda) introduced a solar calendar that marked the advent of the Bengali New Year as the first day of the wintry month of Agrahayan. The ...