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09-03-2007
The translation issue in Bengali
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 Calcutta, India (Telegraph): Unlike Japan and China, which translate every single research paper and specialized monograph in science, technology and medicine into English, our academies and research institutes do nothing of the kind. That is why it is only possible to pick up a fragmentary knowledge of any subject in the regional languages. Even students studying different subjects in Bengali, the richest among vernacular languages, have to supplement their meagre literature with English language books to gain some proficiency in the subject. […] If Japan and China, that do not have the same knowledge of English as we do, can do it, why can’t we?
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