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Gitanjali (Bengali: গীতাঞ্জলি, lit. ''Song offering'') is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, for its English translation, Song Offerings, making him the first non-European and the first Asian and the only Indian to receive this honour. [1]
Tagore in 1912, when Gitanjali was being translated to English Song Offerings ( Bengali : গীতাঞ্জলি ) is a volume of lyrics by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore , rendered into English by the poet himself, for which he was awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature .
Repose is a word meaning "rest" or "calmness". Repose may also refer to: Lying in repose, when the body of a deceased person is set out for public viewing; Dying, particularly used of saints in the Eastern Orthodox Church; Mount Repose (disambiguation), several mountains; USS Repose, several US Navy ships; Repose, a c.1871 painting by Édouard ...
"Ore Neel Doriya Amay De Re De Chhariya" is a Bengali film song from 1978 released Bangladeshi movie Sareng Bou. [1] The song is penned by Mukul Chowdhury and is considered as one of the evergreen compositions of Bangladeshi Music. Originally composed and produced by Alam Khan and recorded on Abdul Jabbar's voice.
Bengali is typically thought to have around 100,000 separate words, of which 16,000 (16%) are considered to be তদ্ভব tôdbhôbô, or Tadbhava (inherited Indo-Aryan vocabulary), 40,000 (40%) are তৎসম tôtśômô or Tatsama (words directly borrowed from Sanskrit), and borrowings from দেশী deśi, or "indigenous" words, which are at around 16,000 (16%) of the Bengali ...
In academia, it is also now referred to as Bangladeshi Writing in English (BWE). [1] Early prominent Bengali writers in English include Ram Mohan Roy, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Begum Rokeya, and Rabindranath Tagore. In 1905, Begum Rokeya (1880–1932) wrote Sultana's Dream, one of the earliest examples of feminist science fiction. [2]
It is a sub-category of Bengali literature in English translation. Bengali poetry, and for that matter Bengali literature, has been translated into many other languages. But starting from the 18th century it is English which has been chosen by most of the native and international translators.
Bengali personal pronouns are somewhat similar to English pronouns, having different words for first, second, and third person, and also for singular and plural (unlike for verbs, below). Bengali pronouns do not differentiate for gender; that is, the same pronoun may be used for "he" or "she".