Facebook has appointed a translator to interpret Bangla status posted by users on the popular social networking site. Facebook took the move to filter the objectionable contents being posted in Bangla ...

I began translating accidentally in 2005, with the Bengali anti-establishment, experimental and maverick Little Magazine writer Subimal Misra. That was like being unwittingly thrown into the deep end ...

Around 70% of the 5,000 books and magazines published by the Bangla Academy are out of print. Bangla language translations of many classic works of world literature, as well as more niche publications ...

I have – and I am sure I share this misfortune with many – an uncontainable practical joker for a friend. A few years ago, he had a group of us worked up in quite a lather over the sort of book he had ...

Facebook authority has recently hired a translator for helping them understand the "objectionable" Bangla language posts in the social networking platform. The development follows a meeting of the ...