Kolkata (PTI): Bengali outfit 'Bangla Pokkho' on Sunday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh demanding that a Bengali Regiment be raised in the Indian Army to pay ...

The revolution that litterateur and musical polymath Kazi Nazrul Islam brought to Bengali literature is unparalleled. It is known that he joined the British-Indian Army in 1917 during World War I, ...

At 11am on the second Sunday of November, the bugles blew, marking the 104 th anniversary of the end of World War I. Kolkata was all set to remember their fallen soldiers at the Bengali War Memorial ...

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], January 23 (ANI): Bangla Pokkho, a Bengali nationalist group, wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to form a Bengal Regiment in the Indian Army, terming it a ...

Kazi Nazrul Islam, popularly known as rebel poet (vidrohi kobi), was an exceptionally talented figure in Bangla literature. This patriot, poet, composer and writer edited a politico-cultural magazine ...

In quiet parties in officers’ messes of the Indian Army, derision often marks the idea of the Bengali soldier. The Bengali soldier, a particularly carping officer might remark, can barely distinguish ...