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 ...

A lot of translations are being done in Bangladesh, from English into Bangla and Bangla into English; much of the latter by native Bangla speakers. While native Bangla speakers may have had 12 years ...

Every year, a few foreigners who wanted to learn Bangla and managed to do so surface on our local media and start sermonising us on our language. They seem more Bengali than the Bengalis. It’s like ...

Bangladesh government has decided to add 400,000 new Bengali words to Google Translate on March 26 in a bid to enrich the language on the internet. The initiative, jointly organised by the state's ...