The West Bengal chief minister said, “India would not have got independence if Bengal was not there. The soil of Bengal ...

Mamata Banerjee-led TMC has been running a campaign themed on Bengali pride, alleging "language terror" on migrant workers ...

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said India would not have got Independence if Bengal was not there, as ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today reiterated her allegations that Bengali-speaking people are being harassed in BJP-ruled states, urging respect for the language and its cultural legacy ...

Barak Valley's apex literary body, on Wednesday held simultaneous demonstrations in Silchar, Sribhumi and Hailakandi to ...

The pre-existing social prejudice against Bengalis has now taken a political turn.

The politics of polarisation based on emphasising difference to separate and therefore divide people is being played by the ...

Officials have picked up people across the country, most of them Muslim, citing a national security risk. Rights groups say ...

Amartya Sen asserts the constitutional right of Indian citizens to move freely within the country. He emphasizes that any ...

Bengalis, unless they are really thin-skinned, should love it, even if they quibble and take it to shreds. Non-Bengalis will get some sense of the big picture, but will miss the nuances.

In "Unaccustomed Earth," the first-generation children who chafed under their parents' old-fashioned customs and vowed to marry for love are now adults, often wedded to or involved with non-Bengalis.

Still, Bengalis have clung defensively to their intellectual reputation, some believe, even as vitality has slipped away. “It’s a belief in the lost cause,” said Swapan Dasgupta, a senior ...