HATFIELD – Nita Das stood before a group of North Penn ESL teachers and gave some examples of common basic phrases in Bengali. She pointed to ‘chesta koro,’ which means ‘please try’ in English – an ...

Overwhelmed at being invited to inaugurate the 19th Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF), megastar Shah Rukh Khan Sunday said he would learn Bengali from actress-politician Jaya Bachchan to be a ...

Actor Ayushmann Khurrana, who will be seen playing a Bengali novelist named Abhimanyu Roy in the forthcoming film "Meri Pyaari Bindu", says it was fun learning the language. Being a true blue Punjabi, ...

Kolkata, Jan 19 (IANS) A.C.V. Ananda Bose, the new governor of West Bengal, will soon take Bengali lessons, sources said here on Thursday. A ceremonial beginning as per Hindu rituals will start on ...

After learning Tamil for Chennai Express last year and flaunting a Maharashtrian accent for Happy New Year, recently, actor Deepika Padukone is now learning Bengali for her next film, Piku, that’s ...