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Barnaparichay is a Bengali primer written by Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar in 1855. It standardized the Bengali alphabet, introduced punctuation and simple prose for children's education.
Gitanjali is a collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore in Bengali, published in 1910, and its English translation, Song Offerings, published in 1912. The poems express devotion to God and love, and were influential in the West and widely translated.
The Khandana Bhava–Bandhana was written by Swami Vivekananda in Bengali as a hymn to his guru, Sri Ramakrishna. The English translation by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood is used by English-speaking Vedanta Centers in the evening vesper worship services: Breaker of this world's chain, We adore Thee, whom all men love.
A poem by Rabindranath Tagore expressing his vision of a free and awakened India. The phrase "where the mind is without fear" is the English translation of the Bengali title and the first line of the poem.
A Bengali rendition of the Rāmāyaṇa by the fourteenth-century poet Krittibas Ojha, based on the Sanskrit text of Valmiki. Learn about its manuscripts, content, style, and themes, such as the rare portrayal of human lesbian reproduction.
Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. Learn about the etymology, history, types and theories of translation, as well as the challenges and benefits of machine and human translation.
'Chaste language') or Sanskritised Bengali was a historical literary register of the Bengali language most prominently used in the 19th to 20th centuries during the Bengali Renaissance. Sadhu-bhasha was used only in writing, unlike Cholito-bhasa , the colloquial form of the language, which was used in both writing and speaking.
Banalata Sen (Bengali: বনলতা সেন) is a poetry volume containing 31 poems by the Bengali poet Jibanananda Das (1899–1954). The volume reflects the contextual struggles experienced by the poet in terms of love (his partner, admiration of nature), liberty (World War I, patriotism in the form of admiring the land) and loss (death of loved ones and sense of direction after ...