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Reference
Sengupta, T. (2025). Bengal and the Bengals: The Bengali Homeland in Advertisements of West Bengal During Bangladesh Liberation War 1971. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2025.2556396
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🎧 Welcome to "Revise and Resubmit"! 🎤
Step into the pages of history and let the story of Bengal sweep you away. Today, we journey to a time when headlines were alive with liberation and identity, where the ink of an ad could unite people across borders. This is no ordinary episode—this is a story composed with rhythm, color, and the restless beat of cultural memory.
In this episode, we’ll unravel the research behind “Bengal and the Bengals: The Bengali Homeland in Advertisements of West Bengal During Bangladesh Liberation War 1971,” authored by Dr. Tiyasha Sengupta and published in the esteemed Journal of Intercultural Studies. Yes, that’s right—a Scopus Q1 journal, a beacon in the world of academic research! 🏆
Published online by Taylor & Francis on October 27, 2025, this study opens a panoramic window to the past, where Bengali-language advertisements celebrated homeland, language, people, and geography, wrapping pain and pride together in every word. Using a multimodal Discourse-Historical Approach, Dr. Sengupta explores how these cultural products built bridges, not walls. What stories do these ads tell? How did a region torn by Partition reclaim solidarity through media?
But here's what will keep you wondering: How does a border printed on a map hold back shared songs, or stop a memory passed from one generation to the next?🗺️📰
Why does the idea of “homeland” pulse so powerfully, especially when the world seems to be busy drawing lines in the sand?
🌟 Special thanks to Dr. Tiyasha Sengupta for this eye-opening work, and hats off to Taylor & Francis for bringing it to the world stage! 🌟
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Now, let’s ask: How do you define your homeland? And could a simple advertisement change the way you see a boundary forever?