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 ...

Deepika Padukone is learning Bengali for her film Piku. The 28-year-old has been doing workshops with the film's Bengali director Shoojit Sircar, and has had help with her language skills and ...

Ayushmann Khurrana, who will be seen playing a Bengali novelist named Abhimanyu Roy in the forthcoming film Meri Pyaari Bindu alongside Parineeti Chopra, said that it was fun learning the language.

In his foreword to Bernard Cohn's magisterial book Colonialism and its forms of knowledge, Nicholas Dirks commented that for the British, in India, "Language was to be mastered to issue commands and ...