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Pohela Baishakh celebration in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The culture of Bengal defines the cultural heritage of the Bengali people native to eastern regions of the Indian subcontinent, mainly what is today Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura, where they form the dominant ethnolinguistic group and the Bengali language is the official and primary language.
The movement spread to the whole of East Pakistan and the whole province came to a standstill. Afterward, the Government of Pakistan relented and gave Bengali equal status as a national language. This movement is thought to have sown the seeds for the independence movement which resulted in the liberation of Bangladesh in 1971.
Baby Helen (known by her stage name Shuchorita) [2] is a Bangladeshi film actress. [3] She won the Bangladesh National Film Award for Best Actress for her role in the film Hangor Nodi Grenade (1997) and Best Supporting Actress for Meghkonna (2018).
Wasfia Nazreen is the first Bangladeshi, and Bengali person of any gender, to climb all the Seven Summits. Shaheda Mustafiz is the first female programmer of Bangladesh. [18] [19] Ayesha Khanam, Bangladeshi feminist leader and freedom fighter. [2] [8] Rounaq Jahan, Bangladeshi political scientist, feminist leader, and author.
Female wage rates in the 1980s were low, typically ranging between 20 and 30 percent of male wage rates. In 2019 Bangladesh's highest court ruled that on marriage registration forms, a word used to describe unmarried women that can also mean "virgin" must be replaced with a word that only means "an unmarried woman".
Tangia Zaman Methila (Bengali: তানজিয়া জামান মিথিলা; born 31 January 1992) [1] is a Bangladeshi model, television host, Bollywood film actress, and beauty pageant titleholder [2] who was crowned Miss Universe Bangladesh 2020. She is the lead actress in Bollywood film Rohingya. [3] [4]
Chandrani Banerjee চন্দ্রানী ব্যানার্জি (born in Chandannagar) is an Indian Bengali singer and songwriter. She is the first Bengali female rock singer. She is the first Bengali female rock singer.
Naila Kabeer (born 1950), social economist, non-fiction writer; Siddika Kabir (1931–2012), cookbook writer, television host; Sufia Kamal (1911–1999), poet, feminist; Rabina Khan (born 1972), Bangladeshi-British novelist, playwright, film producer, politician