Bengali New Year is the first day of the Bengali calendar‚ celebrated in both Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal‚ and also in Bengali communities in the other Indian states. It is celebrated on 14th April in Bangladesh and on 15th April in West Bengal. The traditional greeting for Bengali New Year is "Shubho Noboborsho". There is a noticeable difference in the nature and essence between the Bengali New Year and English New Year. While the English New Year’s day is also comprehensively
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of Bengali journalism Bengal‚ especially Calcutta (presently Kolkata) was the cradle of journalism in India. The first newspaper of India Hickey’s Bengal Gazette was published in Kolkata in 1780. So were the first four non-English newspapers- in Bengali‚ Urdu‚ Hindi and Persian. Several language newspapers owe their birth to Kolkata in some form or the other; for example the Oriya types were manufactured in Serampore‚ a suburb of Kolkata. The year 1818 marks the beginning of Bengali journalism
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Sayeed Abubakar: a Bengali Poet Sayeed Abubakar is a contemporary poet of Bangladesh. He was born on September 21‚ 1972. He is regarded as the major poet of 90 decade. Poet Sayeed Abubakar completed his BA (Honours) and Masters in English Literature from Rajshahi University. He is currently the Assistant Professor of English in Sirajganj Govt. University College. Previously Sayeed Abubakar served the Fornightly Palabadal‚ a popular literary magazine‚ as assistant editor. Contents Publications
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BENGALI LANGUAGE AND CULTURE A Resource Guide for Public School Teachers in New York City 1 Section 1 The World of Bengali 2 The Bengali Language • Bengali or Bangla is an Indo-Aryan language d i d from derived f Sanskrit S ki • It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal‚ which comprises present day Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal • With nearly 230 million native speakers‚ Bengali p y spoken p languages g g in is one of the most ppopularly the world 3 The
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Bengali Language Movement From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia [pic] This article is about the language movement in Bangladesh. For other uses‚ see Language movement (disambiguation). [pic] [pic] Procession march held on 21 February 1952 in Dhaka The Bengali Language Movement‚ also known as the Language Movement (Bengali: ভাষা আন্দোলন; Bhasha Andolon)‚ was a political effort in Bangladesh (then known as East Pakistan)‚ advocating the recognition of the Bengali language as an official language of
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be challenged and removed.(January 2010) | | Khudiram Bose | Born | December 3‚ 1889 Habibpur‚ Midnapur | Died | 11 August 1908 (aged 18) | Nationality | Indian | Known for | Indian freedom fighter | Khudiram Bose (Bengali: ক্ষুদিরাম বসু Khudiram Boshu) (3 December 1889 – 11 August 1908) was a Bengali revolutionary‚ one of the youngest revolutionaries early in the Indian independence movement. At the time of his hanging‚ he was 18 years‚ 7 months 11 days old—barely a legal adult. Contents [hide] * 1 Early
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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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Ramakrishna‚ Swami Vivekananda and Sister Nivedita‚ he used to be the finest writer on cricket in Bengali. Basu can be described in the same vein as John Arlott evaluated Neville Cardus– as ‘the first writer to evoke cricket; to create a mythology out of the folk hero players; essentially to put the feelings of ordinary cricket watchers into words’.[1] Basu joined Shibpur Dinabandhu College as a lecturer in Bengali literature in 1953 and soon started coaching the college cricket team.[2] His next workplace
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------------------------------------------------- Kadambini Ganguly Kadambini Ganguly (1861 – 3 October 1923) was one of the first female graduates of the British Empire along with Chandramukhi Basu. She was one of the first female physicians of South Asia to be trained in European medicine. ------------------------------------------------- Early life The daughter of Brahmo reformer Braja Kishore Basu‚ she was born at Bhagalpur‚ Bihar in British India. Her father was headmaster of Bhagalpur
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darken delirium of greed‚ is dancing to the class of steel and the howling verses of vengeances.”1 This “naked passion of self love of Nations” shapes Rabindranath Tagore’s novel entitled The Home and The World (1919)‚ was originally published in Bengali as Ghare Baire(1916) that voices Indian Nationalism‚ especially‚ Swadeshi movement that started as a protest against the partition of Bengal by Lord Curzon in early twentieth century-1905 and “Bande Mataram”2 (Hail to Motherland) became the motto
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