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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 ...
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).
Pagla Dashu is a character appearing in several prominent works of Bengali literature from the early 20th century, most notably Pagla Dashu (1940). He is a school boy, and although he mainly acts like a maniac, he is famous for his crazy ideas and often inexplicable acts that carry subtle, comedic satire.
Filmmaker Ritwik Kumar Ghatak made a film titled Titas Ekti Nadir Naam in 1973 based on the story of the novel. Ritwik Ghatak said the reason behind his interest in making this film: Titas is a fragmentary life of East Bengal, it is an honest writing. These types of writings are not often seen in Bangladesh (in both Bangla) these days.
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.
Rajshekhar Basu (1880–1960) was the best-known writer of satiric short story in Bengali literature. [26] He mocked the charlatanism and vileness of various classes of the Bengali society in his stories written under the pseudonym "Parashuram". [26]
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.
The story of Rama as depicted by Krittivas Ojha inspired many later-day poets, including Michael Madhusudan Dutt and Rabindranath Tagore. The text is noted for its exploration of the concept of Bhakti , which would later contribute to the emergence of Vaishnavism in Gangetic Bengal and the surrounding regions.