Nijum Pratik and her family came to the U.S. from Bangladesh in 2010, but she struggled to find a place at UCLA to discuss the war and regional conflict that had impacted her homeland. She and her ...

Among the power centres of Bangladesh, the status of Bangla is a little better at general universities. Bangla is used more in general universities than elsewhere and its status, too, is higher, if ...

Pandit Haraprasad Shastri read—and was deeply inspired by—Raja Rajendralal Mitra's seminal work Sanskrit Buddhist Literature of Nepal, published in 1882. That book was instrumental in inaugurating a ...

We usually understand language as a means of communication between people. But language is not limited to communication alone; it also affects or shapes power structures and sociocultural identity. In ...