Amit Malviya is correct that Sylheti is not the same as Bengali. But what he and his team seem to lack is any sense of the history beyond that statement.
Assam govt Tuesday announced 'indigenous' status for Goriya, Moriya, Deshi, Julah & Syed communities. Opposition accuses BJP of sowing division between Assamese & Bengali-speaking Muslims.
Bengal, Kerala, Assam — each key state election has a serious ‘Muslim party’ in fray. A lot of young voters are drawn to them, but others are sticking with tried-and-tested ‘secular’ parties.
Report by NGO Avaaz says posts terming Bengali Muslims as “criminals”, “rapists” & ”terrorists” were shared over 1,00,000 times and viewed at least 5.4 million times.
Contrary to naysayers, the RSS practices what it preaches. It is closer to the Gandhian teaching of improving the individual morally and spiritually to change the external environment.
CM Yogi Adityanath claims that from being called a ‘bimaru’ state, UP is now among the top-3 economies in India. The 2026 Budget session of the UP assembly is currently underway.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
The piece is highly disappointing. In a modern age when intellect is what is celebrated, it is unfortunate that the writer has chosen to delve into issues of caste while writing a piece on how a particular language is spoken by people at different places. The “sadhu bhasha” (chaste language) brought in formal grammar and structure, as we understand it today, to a language which always had innumerable dialects. The “sadhu bhasha” exists for the same purpose that the Queen’s English does. That said, the “sadhu bhasha” used today is not the same as that employed by the great Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, for example, whose ‘Vande Mataram’ is the National Song of India.
The piece is highly disappointing. In a modern age when intellect is what is celebrated, it is unfortunate that the writer has chosen to delve into issues of caste while writing a piece on how a particular language is spoken by people at different places. The “sadhu bhasha” (chaste language) brought in formal grammar and structure, as we understand it today, to a language which always had innumerable dialects. The “sadhu bhasha” exists for the same purpose that the Queen’s English does. That said, the “sadhu bhasha” used today is not the same as that employed by the great Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, for example, whose ‘Vande Mataram’ is the National Song of India.