I have a love-hate relationship with dinner parties. As a Bengali twentysomething who grew up in the United States, you could say these gatherings defined a certain part of my cultural upbringing. In ...

Shayna Mobin (left) and Sanuvar Sultana perform at the International Mother Language Day in Irving. Steve Hamm / Special Contributor Language and independence are intertwined in Bangladesh, so it's ...

“The kids come here because their parents push them to come,” said Athena Akram, instructor at the Bangla School of Music. The tiny school, which nurtures the music, language and culture of Bangladesh ...

“Everybody is leaving. We feel scared. We will leave too.” She has been sweeping and cleaning our house in Gurgaon every day for the last three years. These were her words at the end of last month.

When Anis Zaman logged onto Facebook last Monday, he was greeted with a troubling post: a childhood friend, who lived more than 7,000 miles away in Bangladesh, had been beaten by Bangladeshi police ...

OXFORD’S first city councillor from a Bangladeshi background has spoken of her pride at being elected. Farida Anwar became a councillor for Headington Hill and Northway last week, winning a majority ...