From Barnaparichay, the foundational Bengali text that standardised the alphabet, to the Bhasha Andolan, in which students died defending their language, and visual tributes to filmmaker Ritwik Ghatak ...

In a bizarre recent development, the Delhi Police, in an official FIR, claimed that alleged illegal Bangladeshi residents in the city were communicating in “Bangladeshi” language rather than Bengali.

Hindi Diwas Hindi is an Indian Indo-European language that has evolved from Sanskrit and is written in the Devanagari script. Sanskrit, Marathi, Nepali and many other Indian languages are also written ...

Rajya Sabha MP Samirul Islam accuses BJP states and Central agencies of prejudice and ignorance in the hounding of ...

PORTUGUESE are said to have brought the earliest printing press to the Indo-Pak subcontinent. In 1550, a Portuguese ship brought printing machinery to a port in Malabar, Southwest India. No matter how ...

A four-year-old “multilingual math whiz” from Illinois has been accepted into the prestigious Mensa society with his genius ...

Lakmē Fashion Week X FDCI introduced the 40th batch of GenNext winners. In an EXCLUSIVE interview with Firstpost’s Lachmi Deb ...

To understand Idrish is to approach it as more than a documentary. It is a meditation on how cinema can bear witness, ...

Bengali migrant workers were forced into Bangladesh without waiting for 30 days for proof from their home districts.

Prior to the launch, PM Modi attended an exhibition at the Gyan Bharatam International Conference, organised by the Union ...

This is theatre as ritual, where memory becomes a shared offering, and presence is the medicine. Shudrka Hyderabad is a multilingual theatre collective founded in 2004, rooted in the belief that ...

Shabana Azmi, who turns 75, has had a distinguished career balancing both parallel and commercial cinema, her individuality ...