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 ...

Bangladesh intellectual Badruddin Umar, who passed away in September, was often dubbed a leftist theorist. But his real ...

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".

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 ...

This movement backwards to find a knot to tie, to find traces of an origin and collect them in the space left hollow within me, is prompted by a prolonged, gnawing emotion of detachment and alienation ...