Even the school children at the primary school level today would tell us that the very first Bangla grammar and dictionary was written by Father Manoel da Assamção. But why was it so? Why was there no ...

Monowar Hossain is a fresh graduate from the National University and is thinking about ways to improve his vocabulary for the job recruitment exams awaiting him. One of his picks at the Amar Ekushey ...

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 ...

“Since Bengali is a highly inflectional language, each word can be used in many forms. The idea is to record the history of each word in terms of first occurrence, usage and how it has developed and ...