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Udant Martand

By the 1820s, newspapers in several Indian languages were starting, including Bengali and Urdu, however printing in Devanagari script was still rare.


150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda

Bengali film director Tutu (Utpal) Sinha made a film The Light: Swami Vivekananda as a tribute to Swami Vivekananda on his 150th birth anniversary.

Abar Byomkesh

At Dooars, Byomkesh makes his acquaintance with several Bengali inhabitants from the local community like Dr. Ashwini Ghatak (Sujan Mukherjee), Prof. Adinath Shome (Pijush Ganguly), Mahidhar Chaudhury (Biswajit Chakrabarty), photographer Nakuleshwar (Arindol Bagchi), police officer Purander Pandey (Kunal Padhy), deputy magistrate Umanath Ghosh (Chandan Sen) and banker Amaresh Raha (Kaushik Sen).

Alstonia scholaris

Alstonia scholaris (Apocynaceae, commonly called Blackboard tree, Indian devil tree, Ditabark, Milkwood pine, White cheesewood and Pulai (Bengali:ছাতিম) (Urdu: پھلاہی); syn.

Angana Bose

In 2010 she acted in the Bengali film Shukno Lanka opposite Mithun Chakraborty.

Aparna Sen

Her mother Supriya Dasgupta is the cousin of renowned Bengali poet Jibanananda Das.

Asukh

Asukh, pronounced Ashukh is a 1999 Indian Bengali feature film directed by Rituparno Ghosh.

Audrius Beinorius

Later he moved to India where during four years he studied Indology, Buddhology and Indian languages (Sanskrit, Pali, Bengali, Tibetan) at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture in Calcutta.

Austin Area Translators and Interpreters Association

As of 2011, there are about 240 members working in the following languages: Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hungarian, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Mandarin, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Swedish, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese.

Bangla Desh – A Voice of a New Nation

It was a collection of seventy poems by fifty poets, all translated from Bengali into English by Pritish Nandy.

Bangladesh Awami League

In 1952, the Awami Muslim League and its student wing played an instrumental role in the Bengali Language Movement, during which Pakistani security forces fired upon thousands of protesting students demanding Bengali be declared an official language of Pakistan and famously killing a number of students including Abdus Salam, Rafiq Uddin Ahmed, Abul Barkat and Abdul Jabbar.

Bengali phonology

In the dialects prevalent in much of eastern Bangladesh (Barisal, Chittagong, Dhaka and Sylhet divisions), many of the stops and affricates heard in Kolkata Bengali are pronounced as fricatives.

Bhrantibilas

Bhrantibilas is a 1963 Bengali film based on the 1869 play Bhranti Bilas by Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, which is itself based on William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors.

Biswas

Abdur Rahman Biswas (Bengali: আব্দুর রহমান বিশ্বাস) (born 1926), Bangladeshi politician

Brahma Dharma

Brahmo Samaj or Brahmoism a Bengali religious movement by Ram Mohan Roy

Byomkes Chakrabarti

Santali, belonging to the Austroasiatic family and having a tradition traceable from pre-Aryan days retained its distinct identity and co-existed with Bengali, a language belonging to the Indo-Aryan family, within the boundary of Bengal.

Chhabi Biswas

That portrayal was culturally significant too as in the British Raj, enlightened Bengali used to combined both the hoary tradition and the Anglicised urbanity.

Chunni Lal

Chunni Lal is a famous character of Bengali romance novel Devdas written by Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay.

Dena Paona

Based on a novel by Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay and produced by New Theatres, it is credited as the one of first Bengali talkies, and along with Alam Ara, was one of the first sound films produced in India.

Digambar Mitra

Raja Digambar Mitra (1817 - 1879) was one of the leading Derozians and first Bengali Sheriff of Kolkata.

Dimapur

Besides the dominant Naga tribes who comprise about 50% of the city's population, other prominent groups include Dimasas, Bengalis, Assamese, Oriyas, Nepalese, Biharis, Marwaris, Punjabis and also Tamils and Keralites.

Durga Puja in Odisha

The earliest Sarbojonin Durga Puja was reportedly held in the Kazi Bajaar area of the city in 1832 by both Oriya and Bengali employees of the East India Company.

François Pyrard de Laval

In February 1607, the Frenchmen escaped from Malé by boat in the midst of chaos during a Bengali raid.

Gender neutrality in genderless languages

In Maithili, Bengali, Assamese, Oriya and Nepali, there are different nouns for professions, but they are not commonly used, so these languages have become gender-neutral.

Hiran Chatterjee

His first role as leading character was in the 2007 Bengali movie “Nabab Nandini”, directed by Haranath Chakraborty, opposite Koel Mullick.

History of Rakhine

During that period, its kings minted coins inscribed in Arakanese, Kufic and Bengali.

Ittefaq

The Daily Ittefaq (দৈনিক ইত্তেফাক), a Bangladeshi national newspaper in Bengali

Jalpaiguri

Samaresh Majumdar, famous Bengali author of novels like Uttoradhikar, Kalpurush, Kaalbela, etc.

Kunal Ghosh

An FIR was filed against Ghosh at the Bhowanipore police station by employees of the closed Bengali daily Sakalbela for non-payment of salaries and another at the Park Street police station by employees of Channel 10, for a similar reason.

Middle Bengali Literature

The oldest example of Middle Bengali Literature is believed to be Shreekrishna Kirtana by Boru Chandidas.

Moheener Ghoraguli

Moheener Ghoraguli's music is till been covered immensely by Subrata Ghosh (Gorer Math) and also by a number of Bengali artists in the 1990s and 2000s, including Fossils, Chandrabindoo, Bhoomi, Krosswindz, Lakkhichhara and Insomnia and last but not the least Prithibi.

Mousumi Bhowmik

Moushumi has also composed for Bengali documentary and art cinema, the most recent film Matir Moyna (The Clay Bird, dir. Tareque Masud) having won the Critics' Prize at Cannes in 2002 and Best Music at Kara Film Festival, Karachi in 2003.

Muktagachha Shiva temple

The Hindu Rabidas community perform a two-day-long Kattyani Puja, locally known as the 'Shat' Puja, in the Bengali month of Kartik.

Naima Jeffery

Naima was originally intended to be named Najma; named after one of Tony Holland's Bengali friends, the wife of Saeed (who was also the character name of Naima's on-screen husband).

Old East York

Crescent Town Founded on the former site of the Crescent School to take advantage of the adjacent Victoria Park station, Crescent Town is today a diverse multicultural neighbourhood, whose population includes extensive numbers of Bengali, Jamaican, Pakistani, and Tamil Canadians.

Pal clan

Pal is a Bengali surname, believed to have originated from Sanskrit 'Pala' meaning protector or keeper, and mostly found among Bengali Kayasthas.

Pogose School

Among them are Chief Ministers Profullah Chandra Ghosh (of West Bengal) and Ataur Rahman Khan (of East Bengal), as well as first Bengali doctorate Nishikanto Chatterjee and the first Indian Doctor of Science Aghornath Chatterjee, who was the father of Sarojini Naidu.

Rakesh Kumar Tripathi

Many Noted singers of Hindi and Bengali music field have sung songs written by Rakesh Tripathi, such as Sonu Nigaam, Sunidhi Chauhan, June Bannerjee, Vinod Rathore, Srikanto Acharya, Shubhomita, Raghav, Rupankar, Jojo, etc.

Rod Boleche Hobe

Rod Boleche Hobe (Bengali: রোদ বলেছে হবে) is a solo album released by Shayan Chowdhury Arnob in 2010.

Sabras Radio

Although the majority of the schedule is presented in Hindi and English - there are speciality shows broadcasting in Bengali, Gujarati and Punjabi.

Sadharan Brahmo Samaj

1850 Debendranath Tagore publishes the Brahmo Dharma in English (it had been previously privately published in Bengali in 1848).

Shabdo

Leading Bengali newspaper Anandabazar Patrika called the film a "silent revolution" and gave it 9.5 out of 10 stars which was Anandabazars all time highest.

Shahidul Jahir

He was reputed for extraordinary prose style and diciton and considered a genuine founder of post-modern fiction in Bengali.

Shikshanachya Aaicha Gho

After Astitva with 9 years long gap Mahesh Manjrekar directed Marathi film.This film was later remade in Tamil & Telugu as Dhoni and in Bengali as "Cholo Paltaai" starring Prosenjit Chatterjee.

Suprobhat Bangladesh

Suprobhat Bangladesh (Bengali: সুপ্রভাত বাংলাদেশ Suprobhat Bangladesh "Good Morning Bangladesh") is a regional daily newspaper in Bangladesh, published from Chittagong in the Bengali language.

Swadesh Bharati

He has translated Bengali Poetry and published Modern Indian Poetry - Bengali among whom include Kaviguru Rabindranath Tagore (The Last Poems), Shakti Chattopadhyay (Aboni Badi Achho), Subhas Mukhopadhyay (Ulang Raja).

Swapner Din

Swapner Din (English language: Chased by Dreams, translation: A Day of Dreams) is a 2004 Bengali drama film directed and written by Buddhadev Dasgupta, who won the National Film Award for Best Direction for it.

Tahader Katha

Tahader Katha is a 1992 award winning Bengali-language Indian feature film directed by Budhhadeb Dasgupta, starring Mithun Chakraborty, who won the 1993 National Film Awards for Best Actor for the film, while the film won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali.

Tapen Chatterjee

The song Aaha Ki Aananda Aakshe Batashe filmed on him and Rabi Ghosh still stirs the memory of the Bengali film lovers.

Tehatta

The puja is celebrated with much pomp and grandeur during the waxing phase of the moon in the Bengali month of Kartik.

Unish-Kuri

Unish-Kuri, which literally means "nineteen twenty", targeted at teens and young adults, is one of the youngest fortnightly magazines published from ABP Ltd, publishers of Anandabazar Patrika and The Telegraph, of Kolkata, India, that took off as a new division, or wing of Anandamela, the 33-year-old children's magazine published in Bengali.


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