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Elias ascended to prominence as a potent short-story writer during the 1960s. His inaugural novel, Chilekothar Sepai [ bn ] , was published in 1987, followed by his second and final work, Khwabnama [ bn ] , in 1996, shortly before his demise due to cancer on 4 January 1997.
Kiranmala (Bengali: কিরণমালা) is a Bengali folktale collected by author Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder and published in the compilation Thakurmar Jhuli (Bengali: ঠাকুরমার ঝুলি; Grandmother's Bag [of tales]), a collection of Bengali folk tales and fairy tales.
The story of the novel starts in month of February 1971, when the Arabic teacher of Nilgonj High School, Mawlana Irtazuddin Kashempuri visits his younger brother Shahed and his family in Dhaka. Then the writer describes various stories of the characters. He describes how Mawlana Irtazuddin became a contradictor.
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.
Saat Bhai Champa (Bengali: সাত ভাই চম্পা, [1] Sāt Bhāi Champā) [2] or Sat Bhai Chompa is a popular folk tale in the Bengal region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent. [3] The story was first officially published by Dakshinaranjan Mitra Majumder in the book Thakurmar Jhuli in 1907.
Scholarship indicates that this story might have been based upon the relationship between Tagore's elder brother Jyotirindranath; his brother's wife, Kadambari Devi (who committed suicide shortly after Tagore's marriage); and Tagore (who spent a great deal of time with Kadambari, reading and writing poetry).
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Dev Sen was born in Calcutta (now Kolkata) into a Bengali family on 13 January 1938. She was the only child of the poet-couple Narendra Dev (Narendra Deb 1888–1971, son of Nagendra Chandra Deb) and Radharani Devi (1903–1989), who wrote under the pen name Aparajita Devi.