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Bishwo Shahitto Kendro offers classes on world literature for Higher Secondary students, and also provides every book for those classes. For Secondary and Junior school level it operates a nationwide reading program, and provides books for the students. In 2007, it had 500 schools under this program, and over 100000 active student members.
The first Bangla books to be printed were those written by Christian missionaries. Dom Antonio's Brahmin-Roman-Catholic Sambad, for example, was the first Bangla book to be printed towards the end of the 17th century. Bangla writing was further developed as Bengali scholars wrote textbooks for Fort William College. Although these works had ...
The first Bangla novelists were Peary Chand Mitra (1814–1883) and Kali Prasanna Singha (1840–1870). [3] Under the pen name of 'Tekchand Thakur, Peary Chand Mitra wrote the first Bengali novel Alaler Gharer Dulal (1858).
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Banalata Sen (book) Dipendranath Bandyopadhyay; List of books on Bangladesh Liberation War; Bankim Puraskar; Behula; Bengali Kissa; Bengali novels; Bengali science fiction; Bengalis; Bhanusimha Thakurer Padabali; Bharoto Bhagyo Bidhata; Hansanarayan Bhattacharya; Bimal-Kumar; Bodh (poem)
The International Centre for Climate Change and Development (ICCCAD) is a premier research and capacity-building organization in Bangladesh focusing on climate change and development. ICCCAD's goal is to create a world-class institution that is directly linked to local experience, expertise, and research in one of the countries most affected by ...
Notably, in 1995, another book fair called Dhaka International Book Fair was initiated by the government, which was discontinued in 2010. [6] In addition to book sales, Bangla Academy organizes literary and cultural events. Thousands of people gather to purchase books and spend time with the company of books and their authors. [7]
Bengali is typically thought to have around 100,000 separate words, of which 16,000 (16%) are considered to be তদ্ভব tôdbhôbô, or Tadbhava (inherited Indo-Aryan vocabulary), 40,000 (40%) are তৎসম tôtśômô or Tatsama (words directly borrowed from Sanskrit), and borrowings from দেশী deśi, or "indigenous" words, which are at around 16,000 (16%) of the Bengali ...