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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]
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).
The first was a project to produce a Bengali adaptation of Columbia Viking Desk Encyclopedia by Franklin Book Programs Inc., undertaken in 1959 and aborted ten years later. The unfinished papers were compiled into four unequal volumes as Bangla Vishvakosh (1972) with Khan Bahadur Abdul Hakim as the chief editor. [ 8 ]
The National Library of Bangladesh (NLB; Bengali: বাংলাদেশ জাতীয় গ্রন্থাগার, romanized: Bānlādēśa jātīẏa granthāgāra) is the legal depository of all new books and other printed materials published in Bangladesh under the copyright law of Bangladesh.
An alpana is usually created on flooring, generally directly on the ground. On this, a wet white pigment made of rice flour and water (or in some places, chalk powder and water) is used to outline the alpana, with the paint being applied by the artist's finger tips, a small twig, or a piece of cotton thread that is soaked in the dye, or fabric. [3]
The compiled notes were published as a book on 12 June 2012 by The University Press Limited. [5] The book was named by Rehana and prefaced by Hasina. [6] It has since been translated into fourteen languages. On 7 October 2020, a braille version of the book was released. [7]
Gujari (also spelt Gojri, Gujri, or Gojari; گُوجَری) is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by most of the Gujjar people in the northern parts of India and Pakistan, as well as in Afghanistan. It is a member of the rajasthani language family [2] [3] Taukeer Alam introducing himself in Van Gujjari
A drawing by Nandalal Bose illustrating Tagore's poem "Birpurush (The Hero), an English-language translation of which appeared in the 1913 Macmillan publication of Tagore's The Crescent Moon. Internationally, Gitanjali ( Bengali : গীতাঞ্জলি ) is Tagore's best-known collection of poetry, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize ...