Did you know ‘Da-Ri’, which means ‘beard’ in Bengali is the word for ‘legs’ in Korean? And ‘Mo-Ja’, which is the word for ‘socks’ in Bengali, means a ‘hat’ or ‘cap’ in Korean? After enthralling her ...
The team behind Shabdakalpa, anchored at the School of Cultural Texts and Records in Jadavpur University, believes that it would be the first historical dictionary for a non-Latin script, tracing the ...
Full-time writer, part-time cribber. Sucker for good pictures. My motto in life is to finish eating all the seafood in the world.
On Feb 21, a TV channel aired a drama where the protagonist takes a very vocal stand against what is deemed the distortion of the Bangla language. He is seen working at a media house where most people ...
A pop culture enthusiast, Konika is a beauty writer who loves exploring all things makeup and skincare. She has previously written for publications like Grazia India.
Think of some of the words we use most often in our daily lives in Bengali. The word for 'pen'—kolom; the word for 'sky'—asmaan; 'river'—doria; 'land'—jomeen. Think of the standardised farewell ...
"Bhoot", the Bangla word for ghost, derives from the Sanskrit word Bhūta, referring to living beings and the past. Later, it also came to mean 'disembodied spirit.' Ghost stories carry a special ...
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