op-ed | Letters to the Editor: Why is it challenging to find Bengali on language learning apps?

op-ed | Letters to the Editor: Why is it challenging to find Bengali on language learning apps?

Curious bias

Sir — It has come to be quick to understand new languages — be it collecting a performing knowledge from watching international-language Tv set demonstrates or on apps like Duolingo, Bab­bel and Rosetta Stone. Nonetheless, there are apparent bia­ses when it arrives to which languages are accessible for studying. Bengali, for instance, is challenging to discover on this kind of applications. This is irrespective of its rich literature and the truth that extra than 350 million persons talk Bengali. However, fictional languages like Dothraki and Klingon are easi­ly readily available. Could it be that the unwillingness of Bengali-speakers to use their mom tongue is the induce for its unpopularity?

Dipti Basak, Calcutta

Careless mindset

Sir — The silence of the prime minister on the agitation and violence in Manipur, his weaponising of the movie, The Kerala Tale, and his single-minded aim on elections at a time when the state is beleaguered on several fronts are stressing (“Scary story”, May 6). Narendra Modi need to fulfill with several agitating segments in Manipur and try out to put out the other fires throughout the state.

K. Nehru Patnaik,Visakhapatnam

Sir — Similarities could be drawn amongst King Nero and Prime

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Op-Ed: In jail, the operate of journalism is difficult but crucial

Op-Ed: In jail, the operate of journalism is difficult but crucial

I am one of nearly 3,000 men and women in San Quentin Condition Jail who are having to pay for past issues. Most of us want to do the appropriate issue so that we can generate parole or clemency and get back again to our families and communities.

My “right thing” is journalism. Just about every working day I wander the garden listening to the struggles and triumphs of fellow prisoners, gathering materials to notify our story. My aim is to reply: So what?

Far more than 26 a long time behind walls have revealed me that free of charge people are not really shelling out interest to what’s taking place in our society’s prisons and jails. Journalists, specially people on the inside of, have a obligation to show what is likely on and why it matters. To respond to the “so what.” Listed here are some explanations you ought to treatment about what my reporting reveals.

California taxpayers are doling out around $100,000 a 12 months to incarcerate each individual prisoner. A disproportionate selection of the a lot more than 40,000 persons serving existence sentences in California prisons are elderly, one particular rationale our state has the highest prisoner

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