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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).
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.
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.
This is a list of the most translated literary works (including novels, plays, series, collections of poems or short stories, and essays and other forms of literary non-fiction) sorted by the number of languages into which they have been translated.
English translation of the poet's self-work, Gitanjali, to Song Offerings (1912) Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897–1999) English writer of Bengal stories and autobiography Razia Khan (1936–2011) Poetry collections Argus Under Anaesthesia (1976) and Cruel April (1977) Farida Majid (1942–2021) Anthology of English poems Thursday Evening Anthology (1977)
The development of Bengali novel was fueled by colonial encounter, booming print culture, growth of urban centers, and increased middle-class readership [1] Upanyas, the Bangla word for novel, is derived from the words upanay and upanyasta. [2]
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.