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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).
The title Prothom Protishruti (First Promise) refers to the promise Satyabati, the protagonist, has made to educate her daughter Subarna and in which she failed. Critic Madhuri Chatterjee noted that the title also can be interpreted in positive terms — it could be the promise with which Satyabati leaves her household to demand answers regarding the position of women.
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 ...
Since then the Bengali speaking community were divided into two parts – the East and the West Bengal. It turns into the smashing of the millennium-old culture and unity of Bengali nation. Moreover, the existence of language became a great question just after the creation of Pakistan.
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.
Folk-Tales of Bengal is a collection of folk tales and fairy tales of Bengal written by Lal Behari Dey. [1] The book was published in 1883. The illustrations by Warwick Goble were added in 1912. [2] All these stories were passed from generation to generation for centuries.
Bhajahari Mukhujjee (Bengali: ভজহরি মুখার্জী), commonly known as Tenida (Bengali: টেনিদা) or Teni (see Tenida for da), is a fictional native of Potoldanga in Calcutta, who appears in a number of short stories and larger works of the Bengali author Narayan Gangopadhyay.
Pritilata was a meritorious student. [16] A teacher in the school, whom students affectionately used to call Usha Di , used stories of Rani Lakshmibai to inspire nationalism in her students. Kalpana Datta , a classmate of Pritilata, writes in the biography Chittagong Armoury Raiders – "We had no clear idea in our school days about our future.