The written works of Dravidar Kazhagam founder and social reformer ‘Thanthai Periyar’ E.V. Ramasamy will be published in print and digital editions in 21 Indian and world languages at a cost of ₹5 crore, the Tamil Nadu government said in the Assembly on Friday. Presenting the 2022-23 budget, Finance Minister Palanivel Thiaga Rajan noted that ‘Thanthai Periyar’ worked tirelessly till …
7:42 PM Whatsapp Facebook Twitter Assembly Elections 2021 LATEST Updates Phase 2 polling in Assam and Bengal concludes, says EC The Election Commission of India Thursday said that the second phase of Assam and West Bengal elections was conducted peacefully across 21,112 polling stations spread over 69 Assembly constituencies. While more than 73 lakh electorates across 10,592 Polling Stations are …
What’s Bengali for mask?” a friend asked me. In a year of pandemic, the English word “mask” has snuck into Bengali and Hindi and Kannada and many other Indian languages alongside “sanitiser” and “social distancing”. Katherine Connor Martin, the head of product for Oxford Languages, the company that publishes the OED, told The New York Times that at one time …
Lockdown, defined as "the imposition of stringent restrictions on travel, social interaction, and access to public spaces", has been named the Collins Word of the Year 2020. “Our lexicographers chose lockdown as Word of the Year because it is a unifying experience for billions of people across the world, who have had, collectively, to play their part in combating the …