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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 ...
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.
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 ...
The Bengali definition of the word is an instructor or teacher. The usage of Persian as an official language in Bengal was common during the rule of the Bengal Sultanate and the Mughal Empire . The Persians as well as members of the Turco-Persian tradition were a large immigrant community during both periods in which they integrated with the ...
"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).
Rashsundari Devi (Bengali: রাসসুন্দরী দেবী) (c. 1809-1899) was a Bengali woman who is identified as the author of first full-fledged autobiography [1] in modern Bengali literature. She is among the earliest woman writers in Bengali literature.
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.
Though middle names are very common in Bangladesh, not every individual has one; this applies to West Bengal as well. Recently, many people have begun to add their dak nam to the middle or end of their full official name, resulting in names like "Saifuddin Kanchon Choudhuri" (সাইফুদ্দীন কাঞ্চন চৌধুরী), where "Saifuddin" would be the man's bhalo nam ...