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Barnaparichay [note 1] is a Bengali primer written by 19th century Indian social reformer Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar. [1] [2] It was first published in 1855.This is considered as "The Most Influential Primer of Bengal". [3]
Tilopa gave Naropa a teaching called the Six Words of Advice, the original Sanskrit or Bengali of which is not extant; the text has reached us in its Tibet a translation. In Tibetan, the teaching is called gnad kyi gzer drug [8] – literally, "six nails of key points"; the aptness of the title becomes clear if one considers the meaning of the English idiomatic expression, "to hit the nail on ...
"Bidrohi" (Bengali: "বিদ্রোহী"; English: "The Rebel") is a popular revolutionary Bengali poem and the most famous poem written by Kazi Nazrul Islam in December 1921. [1] [2] [3] Originally published in several periodicals, the poem was first collected in October 1922 in a volume titled Agnibeena: the first anthology of Nazrul's ...
Humayun Ahmed (Bengali: হুমায়ূন আহমেদ [ɦumajuːn aɦmed]; 13 November 1948 – 19 July 2012) [4] [5] was a Bangladeshi novelist, dramatist, screenwriter, filmmaker, songwriter, scholar, and academic. [6] His breakthrough was his debut novel Nondito Noroke published in 1972. [7] He wrote over 200 fiction and non ...
He was active in journalism too, having served on the editorial staff of daily and weekly newspapers. He was an editor of the leading Bengali literary journal Parichay. He was also an accomplished and popular writer for children. He edited the Bengali children's periodical Sandesh jointly with Satyajit Ray for a few years in the early sixties. [7]
Khana also known as Dak or Lilavati (IPA: ) was an Indian poet and legendary astrologer, who composed in the medieval Bengali language between the ninth and 12th centuries AD. She is associated with the village Deulia ( Chandraketugarh , near Berachampa ), in present-day Barasat , North 24 parganas district, West Bengal .
Ahmed Sofa (Bengali: আহমদ ছফা, pronounced [aɦmɔd sɔfa]; 30 June 1943 – 28 July 2001) was a Bangladeshi writer, thinker, novelist, poet, philosopher and public intellectual. [1] Sofa is considered by many, including National Professor Abdur Razzaq and Salimullah Khan , to be the most important Bengali Muslim writer after Mir ...
Rudra Mohammad Shahidullah (Bengali: রুদ্র মুহম্মদ শহিদুল্লাহ; 16 October 1956 – 21 June 1991) [3] was a Bangladeshi poet [4] [5] noted for his revolutionary and romantic poetry. He is considered one of the leading Bengali poets of the 1970s. [6]