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Pratilipi is an Indian online self-publishing and audiobook portal headquartered in Bangalore. Founded in 2014, the company allows users to publish and read original works such as stories, poetry, essays, and articles in twelve languages: Hindi , Urdu , English , Gujarati , Bengali , Marathi , Malayalam , Tamil , Kannada , Telugu , Punjabi and ...
Starting in 2010, every year free books are distributed to students between Grade-1 to Grade-10 to eliminate illiteracy. [6] These books comprise most of the curricula of the majority of Bangladeshi schools. There are two versions of the curriculum. One is the Bengali language version and the other one is English language version.
Thakurmar Jhuli (Bengali: ঠাকুরমার ঝুলি; Grandmother's Bag [of tales]) is a collection of Bengali folk tales and fairy tales. The author Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder collected some folktales of Bengali and published some of them under the name of "Thakurmar Jhuli" in 1907 (1314 of Bengali calendar).
Prothom Protishruti is the most acclaimed work of Ashapurna Devi, [3] and is considered to be one of the foremost novels in Bengali literature. [4] It was selected for Rabindra Puraskar for 1965 and Jnanpith Award for 1976. [5] [6] Critic Mukul Guha praised the novel for its 'realistic dialogue' and 'charming narration'. [4]
Bangladeshi Folk Literature (Bengali: বাংলাদেশী লোক সাহিত্য) constitutes a considerable portion of Bengali literature.Though it was created by illiterate communities and passed down orally from one generation to another it tends to flourish Bengali literature.
Later Syed Waliullah translated it in English by the name Tree Without Roots. Mahbub-ul Alam wrote Mofijon, also published in 1948. A progressive novelist Humayun Kabir wrote an English novel, Rivers and Women, which was published in 1945. The Bengali form was published in 1952 by the name of Nodi O Nari.
Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (anglicized as Chatterjee) CIE (26 or 27 June 1838 [4] – 8 April 1894 [5]) was an Indian Bengali novelist, poet, essayist [6] and journalist. [7] [8] He was the author of the 1882 Bengali language novel Anandamath, which is one of the landmarks of modern Bengali and Indian literature.
Buddhadeva Bose (Bengali: বুদ্ধদেব বসু;2 September 1908 – 14 August 1974), [2] also spelt Buddhadeb Bosu, was an Indian Bengali writer of the 20th century. Frequently referred to as a poet, he was a versatile writer who wrote novels, short stories, plays and essays in addition to poetry.