This write-up describes my singular experience in translating Bengali short stories into English. However, all literary translations deal with certain common problems—of idiolect and dialect, or the ...

Prepone” is now a word in the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. So is “airdash”. For those who squirm at the made-in-India opposite of “postpone”, the dictionary-makers say: “It enriches the ...

I have – and I am sure I share this misfortune with many – an uncontainable practical joker for a friend. A few years ago, he had a group of us worked up in quite a lather over the sort of book he had ...

Bangla movie names are super entertaining [mostly the Dhallywood ones any way], and I'm sure the readers are well aware of that. But it was recently pointed out to yours truly that the Bangladeshi ...

Abdus Selim, a noted Bangladeshi translator, playwright, essayist and educationist, has, of late, come up with a collection of five plays in Bangla translation titled Panch Manchanubad (Bangladesh ...

These are the words of Debabrata Rej, the undiscovered West Bengal writer, translator and playwright, whose Bangla translation of Goethe's famous tragic play has finally seen the light of day, almost ...

NEW DELHI: Bangladesh Supreme Court on Thursday inaugurated an 'Amar Vasha' software to translate court orders and judgments from English into Bangla. The software, developed by Ek Step Foundation of ...