Reddit, the discussion forum-style social media platform, announced the expansion of its automatic translation feature on Monday. In September 2024, the company introduced a machine learning (ML) ...

Mithu Sanyal never learned her father's native language, Bengali, as a child. Is it too late to reclaim it? Do you want to know a secret? A secret so shameful that I hid it for decades? It's only ...

Deepika Padukone is learning Bengali for her film Piku. The 28-year-old has been doing workshops with the film's Bengali director Shoojit Sircar, and has had help with her language skills and ...

After graduating from university last year, Gao Ruihong was recruited as a teacher at Yunnan Minzu University (YMU) to assist in the establishment of the Bengali major, which made her the youngest ...

A group of Bangladeshi programmers have created a programming language written entirely in Bengali script. It’s called Potaka (Flag), and it’s aimed at encouraging children whose first language is ...

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 ...