A lot of translations are being done in Bangladesh, from English into Bangla and Bangla into English; much of the latter by native Bangla speakers. While native Bangla speakers may have had 12 years ...

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 ...

Oxford University Press has, for the first time, published an English-to-Bengali dictionary. KOLKATA: Oxford University Press has, for the first time, published an English-to-Bengali dictionary. It ...

In 1795, Gerasim Stepanovich Lebedev (or Herasim Lebedeff), a Russian musician and newly turned linguistic translator did something unique in Calcutta. For the first time, a play written in English, ...

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 ...