Apparently, Bengali (or Bangla) is the seventh spoken language in the world by population. By some statistics, its position is sixth, and even fifth in another! I am not elated by this because the number of speakers of a language does not demonstrate its acceptance nor its popularity, globally or locally.
In the early hours of August 8, a downed powerline ignited a fire along a roadside on the Hawaiian island of Maui. Wind from Hurricane Dora and dry brush
Disciplines and Movements: Conversations between India and the German-speaking World edited by Hans Harder and Dhruv Raina, Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan, 2022; pp 276, `1,115.