For someone who grew up with Bengali and English, learning Japanese is a fresh and bracing experience, writes Baizid ...

Suman Mukhopadhyay, whose film Putulnacher Itikatha (The Puppet's Tale) is in Big Screen Competition at IFFR, and whose brilliant debut 'Herbert' completes 20 years, talks about what ails & fails ...

Bengalis’ unique repository of literacy and ... Her story is present in the ancient methodological literature, Ramayana and Mahabharata. Long ago, through his relentless penance, Bengal ...

All government radio and TV stations have been instructed that no government media can now mention that during the liberation struggle of Bangladesh, Pakistan killed 3 million Bengalis and raped ...

Included in the finds were ancient stone hand axes that date back to as far as 1.5 million years ago. The ancient lake that has long been home to all of these hand axes offers a peak into the ...

Medieval India’s Muslim rulers introduced the tradition of cooking flour, semolina, rice flour or gram flour with sugar, ghee ...

Cultures throughout history have put lead to use for wacky and often deeply poisonous purposes Sonja Anderson A new, first-of-its-kind analysis of the scents of nine mummies detected woody, spicy ...

This is believed to be the first ... Discovery of 'Punk' and 'Emo' Fossils Challenges Our Understanding of Ancient Molluscs Jan. 8, 2025 — Researchers have unearthed two fossils, named Punk and ...

Remarkably, Bengali seems to have a more prominent presence here than Hindi, a language that often looms larger in the consciousness of Indian Bengalis. This can be attributed to the fact that ...

But the citrus genus has a surprising history, popping up everywhere from ancient Rome and the Renaissance to naval exploration and Casanova's famed romantic trysts. The history of citrus dates ...

Child: The ancient Egyptian civilisation began 5,000 years ago and lasted 3,000 years! It was located along the River Nile in north-east Africa. I better write this down! Oh! I’ve lost my pen.