Kolkata: Stressing on unity in diversity, CM Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said that commonly used words by people enrich a language. Banerjee, while attending an event on International Mother Language ...

One word that has gone missing from our Bengali vocabulary is “palpitation”. I say Bengali because the familiarity with which it was used in Bengali middle-class homes made it lose its foreignness.

A month-long campaign, "Nikhoj Shobder Khoje", to encourage the young generation to reconnect with those Bangla words that have been missing from the language for a long time, was launched at Bishwo ...