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Abul Kalam Azad was India's first Minister of Education, and his birthday is now recognised as National Education Day across the country. Jalaluddin Ahmad, Bengali landlord, jurist and health minister; Aftab Ali, founder of All-India Seamen's Federation and vice-president of All-India Trade Union Congress; Aruna Asaf Ali, Indian independence ...
The surname "Sheikh" is prevalent in the Bengali Muslim community. It is from the Arabic word "Sheikh" (Arabic: شيخ shaykh), meaning elder, this word is also applied to those who are in a position of respect such as a leader, especially a religious leader or preacher.
Rabindranath Thakur FRAS (Bengali: [roˈbindɾonatʰ ˈʈʰakuɾ]; [1] anglicised as Rabindranath Tagore / r ə ˈ b ɪ n d r ə n ɑː t t ə ˈ ɡ ɔːr / ⓘ; 7 May 1861 [2] – 7 August 1941 [3]) was an Indian Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renaissance.
"Guru" = "teacher" and "dev" = "Respected person". Rabindranath Tagore: Guruji Madhavrao Sadashivrao Golwalkar: Hindi for 'respected teacher' M. S. Golwalkar: Karnataka Kulapurohita Aluru Venkata Rao: Translation - "High priest of the Kannada family" Aluru Venkata Rao: Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak [15] "Revered by the people" (Hindi).
The BBC Bangla started to announce the top 20 names from 26 March declaring one name each day starting from 20th position. On 14 April, the final day, which was also the Pohela Boishakh (Bengali New Year's day), the BBC announced Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh, as the Greatest Bengali of All Time voted by Bengalis ...
A very important person (VIP or V.I.P.) or personage [1] is a person who is accorded special privileges due to their high social rank, status, influence, or importance. [2] [3] The term was not common until sometime after World War II when it was popularised by Royal Air Force pilots. [1] [additional citation(s) needed]
She is considered as the personification of the Bengali Language & Culture, The State of West Bengal and People's Republic of Bangladesh. The Mother Bengal represents not only biological motherhood but its attributed characteristics as well – divineness, protection, never ending love, consolation, care, the beginning and the end of life.
Year Picture Name Country The reason for the award is 1913: Rabindranath Tagore (Calcutta, Bengal): India, Bangladesh: Won the Nobel Prize literature for his extremely sensitive, refined, and well-written line of poetry, through which he has been able to express his poetic thinking in his own English words, which has become a part of Western literature.