From giving up lunch and cigarettes to taking up part-time jobs, Datta’s obsession with little magazines led to a library, at Kolkata's College Street, that kept a part of Bengal’s history alive
Nazrul impregnated Bangla with borrowed words from Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian, Hindi, and Urdu. When purists perceive foreign influence as a threat to Bangla's existence, we can turn to Nazrul to understand how loanwords enrich and embellish a language instead of corrupting it.