IN the 1950s, an English tutorial agency placed an ad in a Japanese newspaper under the caption: “You Too Can Spoke Engrish”! These days educated Japanese men and women speak English nearly as ...

I had visited Bangladesh once before in 2018. I had fallen for this chaotic and friendly country and was waiting for an excuse to return. The one thing I vividly remember was stepping out of Dhaka's ...

Every six months the government's Department of Films and Publications (DFP) under the Ministry of Information publishes lists of the English and Bangla language newspapers eligible for government ...

Since Bangladesh went through many historical stages in its search for identity during and after the British colonial rule—East Bengal (1905-1911) and East Pakistan (1947-1971)—it’s really challenging ...

Authorities in Bangladesh have banned local film-makers from giving their movies English titles after a spate of recent Bangla blockbusters with titles such as "Honeymoon" and "I Don't Care".

The history of Bangladeshi prose literature dates back to the pre-partition era before 1947 when a handful of Muslim writers from Bengal emerged and wrote alongside the predominantly Hindu Kolkata ...

The Bangladesh government has ordered the closure of 191 websites it accuses of publishing “anti-state news,” stoking concerns about media freedom in the South Asian country. Information Minister ...