She longed to find another name that was similar. In India, the history of Bengali peoples evolved and was documented in print as India gained independence in 1947 and the nation was partitioned.

Bengali Culture Over A Thousand Years review: Shared destiny A comprehensive work, now in translation, traces the inclusive history of the entire Bengali-speaking people, with humanism and humour ...

To learn more about our rich culture, language, and printing history, one can drop by the open-for-all exhibition currently underway at Alliance Française. "Primer to Press" will run from Monday ...

THIS book, we are told in the preface, was intended to provide “a monograph on the origin of the Bengali people,” a useful project which has been supported by the newly founded Varendra ...

But the history of Indian food in Chicago is over 120 years old, if one looks closely. Indian restaurant workers, laborers and students have been in Chicago since earlier in the 1900s.

Chakravarti’s Bengali-ness, after all, is the inclusive, cosmopolitan Bengali-ness of Tagore (he firmly refuses to call people who are not Bengali “non-Bengali”, the one-size-fits-all ...

There are 60 members in the club, 40 of which are Bengali students. “It’s not just open to Bengali students; this organization is open to anyone who is willing to learn,” Pratik said.

In 1947, Bengal’s Partition forced millions to migrate, carrying a lot more than memories — they brought recipes. From shutki ...

Human Rights Watch criticizes India for deporting Bengali migrants without due process, reflecting discriminatory policies ...

The people who came in the wake of 1965 had taken the reins of community representation. Yet, they had little in common with newer waves of working-class immigrants from Pakistan and Bangladesh.