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Ajaypal Singh "Ajay" Banga (born November 10, 1959 [1]) is an Indian-born American business executive. [2] He is currently the president of the World Bank Group . [ 3 ] He was the executive chairman of Mastercard , after having previously served as president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the company from July 2010 until December 31, 2020.
If the emergence of the Bengali literature supposes to date back to roughly 650 AD, the development of Bengali literature claims to be 1600 years old. The earliest extant work in Bengali literature is the Charyapada, a collection of Buddhist mystic songs in Old Bengali dating back to the 10th and 11th centuries. The timeline of Bengali ...
Bengali poetry is a rich tradition of poetry in the Bengali language and has many different forms. Originating in Bengal , the history of Bengali poetry underwent three successive stages of development: poetry of the early age (like Charyapad ), the Medieval period and the age of modern poetry .
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).
Proverbs are the shortest form of folk literature. Generally they are composed on the basis of human experience, pragmatic consideration, and wisdom. Many proverbs are found in the vedas and the upanisads as well as in the charyapada, the oldest specimen of Bengali literature. The Folk Literature refers not to written, but to oral traditions ...
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The Ajaypal S. Banga Stock Index From January 2008 to May 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Ajaypal S. Banga joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 18.0 percent return on your investment, compared to a -10.2 percent return from the S&P 500.
The people of ancient Bengal initially spoke a Prakrit language, which was known as Magadhi, or on the contrary, Gaudi. [3] Later, it evolved into Old Bengali. Most Bengali-speaking people today consider Old Bengali to be intelligible to a certain extent, although most of the words most commonly used in modern Bengali have their roots in Old ...