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Topic: Bengali

How Saba Azad became the accidental voice of Bengal’s language protests

Bengalis are hurt over a statement by the Delhi police calling Bangla a ‘Bangladeshi language’ and the lines Azad sang have unwittingly become protest music in Kolkata now.

Mamata leads rally in Kolkata, accuses BJP of discrimination against Bengali-speaking citizens

In a fiery speech, she claimed people were being harassed based on language, identity, political bias. 'Assam govt has sent notices to Bengalis living in Bengal,' she said.

Bengal, Bangla & ‘Bohiragoto’. The politics of identity and pushback against Hindi ‘imposition’

Episodes of confrontations between Bengalis & non-Bengalis have revived debate of language imposition. English medium education is highly in demand and Bengali language in that case becomes marginalised.

Centre grants classical language status to Marathi, Pali, Prakrit, Assamese and Bengali

The Centre's criteria for classical language status says the language should have over 1,000 years of antiquity, valuable ancient literature, and an original literary tradition.

Amar Sangi’s Chirodini is out-of-place Bengali puja classic that glorifies dated love

I have nothing against love. But Chirodini belongs more to the Salman Khan-starrer Maine Pyar Kiya genre — a blockbuster that is outdated today.

India is seeing crorepati cult in politics. Bengali bhadralok, Marathi manoos no bar

When did hauls of cash and gold—once seen among ‘dabang’ netas elsewhere—start to appear in Bengal of all places?

‘Kacha Badam’ singer Bhuban Badyakar sings at Kolkata pub in new rockstar avatar

Wearing a glitzy jacket, Badyakar was seen performing live in Kolkata's Someplace Else pub in Park Street last week.

Translate ‘Gaay hamari mata hai’. That’s the secularism gap between English, Indian languages

The English intellectual can't ignore Indian languages anymore or will end up legitimising the flawed Hindutva argument about the revenge of the subaltern.

How Babri Masjid demolition was rehearsed and executed in 1992 — rare photos tell the story

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint this week.

If your Bengali girlfriend knew ‘black magic’, she would erase misogyny, not waste it on you

The tragic death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput is now being used to target Bengali women.

On Camera

Was India’s public sector born out of European envy?

For all its obvious blemishes, capitalism alone holds out the most creative and dynamic force that any civilization has ever discovered, wrote BP Godrej in 1980.

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

2 Assam Rifles personnel killed as convoy ambushed in Manipur, on ‘same route Modi took’ fortnight ago

This is the first major attack on central security forces since last November, when a CRPF jawan was killed and four were injured in an ambush in Jiribam on Manipur-Assam border. 

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.