Meaning, they cannot really give an update on your passport, when it is being processed by them. US Visa Processing Completed, but not yet tagged: Sometimes, when you check the CEAC website, your status may show as ‘Issued’ or ‘Approved’, but still the passport tracking status may ...
Drawing on a new digital collection of oral interviews, this essay examines the place and meaning of the state in Bengali thought. In the immediate aftermath of decolonisation, East Bengal intellectuals, without substantial pre-engagement with the colonial state, favoured forms of political action or...
We preferred thematic analysis over content analysis as many of the words in Bengali can’t directly be converted into English with the same meaning and therefore counting the word frequencies wouldn’t reflect the true intentions/ feelings shared during the interviews by the respondents. Instead, ...
The new year was bittersweet for many Bengali radio fans this year, as listeners learned that BBC Bangla Radio would stop airing on December 31, 2022, after an 81-year run. In the years leading up to its closure, two sets of half-hour programs were aired each day on shortwave and FM ...
Take it from me—there is nothing “in the air” in another country that will magically make you able to speak their language. I’ve done a lot of experiments to prove this (e.g. learning Arabic while living in Brazil). I’ve met countless expats who lived abroad foryearswithout learni...
Prepositions and postpositions in Ewe: empirical and theoretical considerations This article examines the grammar, use and meaning of fifteen verbs used in the Basic Locative Construction (BLC) of Likpe — a Ghana-Togo-Mountain language. The verbs fall into four semantic subclasses: (a) basic top...
reserved for women in the old Teahouse, and love also blossomed and lovers got married courting here, the remark made by Delhi University teacher Chhattar Singh's, wife, is telling, “I did not like the place as I used to lose him to others”, the 'others' meaning Singh's male ...
This was the step at which we have made the most changes, because removing certain details can either change the meaning of the text or leave it the same, depending on language. For example, the standard ALBERT normalizer removes the accents, while for the Bengali language, we need to keep...
Whether everyone knows meaning of their name and if he/she does, whether they carries that meaning all the time! Titles of works of art are like identities which do not necessarily have a great connotation as far as the meaning is considered. In fact I do not think particular meaning exist...
Ms. Hacker's lively account of the experiences of early women explorers end adventuresses provides a captivating series of backgrounds and a depth of meaning to her own film-meklng venture - recording Africa in the process of change. "Her vivid wrtreval of oeoole and olaces is reminisceni ...