Bengali not under threat, rather it is threatening Bengal’s marginal languages, says translation scholar
Award-winning scholar advocates for preservation of endangered tribal languages in West Bengal through translation and educational reforms.
Mohan Rakesh’s Nai Kahani
Although one of the founder members of the Nai Kahani Movement, Mohan Rakesh is better known as a playwright. It is these — ‘Ashaadh ka Ek Din’, ‘Aadhe Adhoore’ and ‘Lehron ke Rajhans’, among others — ...
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40 million lives later: The dangers of erasing AIDS from the works of art it inspired
The Smithsonian’s decision to change the name of a work by Félix González-Torres – cancelling out the express tribute to his ...
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Classical CDs: Snow, shards and swinging oars
So, the E minor nocturne has Ott filmed in billowing snow, whereas the C minor No.2 transports us to the Japanese urban loneliness of Murakami. I particularly enjoyed the lightness and fleet-footed ...
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Speaking with the dead is now possible via AI: a step too far?
Today, thanks to applications based on artificial intelligence, you can talk or chat with a simulation of deceased people. This, of course, raises many questions.