Legendary Bangladeshi singer Runa Laila has expressed deep emotion after learning that one of her songs inspired the creation of a written alphabet for an endangered indigenous language in India.

In recent years I have observed something deeply troubling in Ghanaian homes and communities. I have seen children under the age of ten who cannot understand or speak their own local language. A child ...

There are more than 7,000 languages spoken around the world, each with its own character. Tamil is the oldest living language ...

The passing of Hari Krishan Dua invites reflection on an era when editorial authority rested largely on professional ...

I use Hafta to stay up to speed on the week's events, and this HAFTA was longer than usual. In a world where we are all ...

Rob H. Aft's English translation makes accessible for Indians who do not know French Désirée Sylvain-Lévi's epistolary ...

In an exclusive interview with Firstpost’s Zinia Bandyopadhyay, Bickram Ghosh talks about Drums of the East, celebrating the ...

Amitav Ghosh, in his novel The Hungry Tide, masterfully portrays the Sundarbans as a palimpsest where colonial and ecological ...

The travelogue from Bengaluru captures the emotional journey of revisiting a city once known as Bangalore, intertwined with memories of childhood and the stark contrasts of contemporary India. The ...

After the Partition of India and Pakistan, she remained steadfast in her decision to stay in East Pakistan and introduced a blueprint of her future activities in this newly born nation.