Kavigan is actually a form of Bengali folk performance wherein folk poets sing and perform. History of Kavigan Kavigan was born out of a synthesis of various art forms prevalent in different parts of Bengal at different times having peculiar names such as tarja‚ panchali‚ kheur‚ akhrai‚ half akhrai‚ full akhrai‚ danra kavigan‚ basa kavigan‚ dhap kirtan‚ tappa‚ Krishna jatra‚ tukkagiti etc. The existence of kabi songs may be traced to the beginning of the 18th century or even beyond
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Introduction What Makes a Good University? Thoughts and Suggestions | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Universities are places where students come to learn various courses from instructors. A good university must be able to support the learning process. It must have enough qualified instructors‚ many modern buildings with adequate high technology facilities‚ and the most.of.all.good.management. Being a place where students come to learn‚ it is important that
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often codeswitch between Bengali (my mother tongue) and English. ‘Aboo money lagé’ (Dad I need money). Notice how I go from speaking Bengali to English and then once more back to Bengali. I use more Bengali to show my parents that even though I am bilingual and get to experience another cultures‚ I am still in touch with my Bengali heritage. If I was to speak in full English my parents may think that I prefer my English over Bengali. Therefore I feel the need to speak Bengali as culture is very important
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"Draupadi" by Mahasveta Devi Translated with a Foreword by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Translator’s Foreword I translated this Bengali short story into English as much for the sake of its villain‚ Senanayak‚ as for its title character‚ Draupadi (or Dopdi). Because in Senanayak I find the closest approximation to the First- World scholar in search of the Third World‚ I shall speak of him first. On the level of the plot‚ Senanayak is the army officer who captures and degrades Draupadi. I will
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the Agri-Horticultural Society in the 1820’s; a literature expert‚ being the first to translate and publish Indian classics‚ transforming the Bengali language from a language of the uneducated into a language of the educated; a musician‚ writing gospel ballads in the Bengali language; a scholar‚ authoring the first Sanskrit dictionary; a professor of Bengali‚ Sanskrit‚ and Marathi (Indian languages) at the Fort William College in Calcutta; an educator‚ starting dozens of schools for Indian children
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Abstract Despite the existence of the Bengali medium and religious branch of education‚ the English medium education system (Edexcel and Cambridge based curriculum) has gained popularity among the upper middle class‚ rich class and slowly among the middle class because of its credibility‚ international standard‚ flexibility and the focus on English language. This is a rapidly growing sector in Bangladesh with numerous schools present through out Dhaka. Students are giving Ordinary level examination
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Aurobindo and two elder siblings -Manmohan Ghose and Benoybhusan Ghose - to the Loreto Convent school in Darjeeling. Aurobindo used to take many excursions to Bengal‚ at first in a bid to re-establish links with his parents’ families and his other Bengali relatives‚ including his cousin Sarojini and brother Barin‚ and later increasingly in a bid to establish resistance groups across Bengal. But he formally shifted toCalcutta (now Kolkata) only in 1906 after the announcement of Partition of Bengal.
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(Bangladesh and Indian/West Bengal) and among Bengali communities living in the Indian states of Tripura and Assam (Specially in Barak Valley). Pohela Boishakh coincides with the New Years in many other Southern Asian calendars. Bangla New Year or Pohela Boishakh connects all Ethnic Bengalis irrespective of religious and regional differences. Ethnic Bengalis across the world and from all walks of life unite to celebrate the Public or Universal Festival of Bengalis i.e. Pohela Boishakh; it’s the occasion
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of humanity. This enabled him to develop a broad outlook with a healthy blend of realis¬tic and idealistic strains. Even while learning at home‚ Tagore became a scholar at an early age. He had an inborn poetic bent of mind. He began to write in Bengali at an early age and even started a magazine. In his opinion‚ a child’s first lan¬guage should be his mother-tongue in which he could express himself with better felicita¬tion. Tagore was a versatile genius. He was a poet‚ novelist‚ dramatist‚ short-story
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