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Bangladesh has an influential English-language press, including newspapers The Daily Star, New Age, Dhaka Tribune, The Muslim Times, and The Independent, which bring out regular literary supplements. Prominent magazines include The Star , Slate , Dhaka Courier , and Forum .
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The people of ancient Bengal initially spoke a Prakrit language, which was known as Magadhi, or on the contrary, Gaudi. [4] Later, it evolved into Old Bengali. Most Bengali-speaking people today consider Old Bengali to be intelligible to a certain extent, although most of the words most commonly used in modern Bengali have their roots in Old ...
The first attempt to compile a Bengali encyclopedia was undertaken by Felix Carey (1786–1822), who was the son of Reverend William Carey (1761–1834) of Serampore and the first lexicographer of the Burmese language. In 1819, he began the translation of the fifth edition of Encyclopædia Britannica, naming it Vidyarthabali. From October 1819 ...
The Unfinished Memoirs (Bengali: অসমাপ্ত আত্মজীবনী) is the autobiography by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Father of the nations of Bangladesh. Background [ edit ]
He translated the Hindu epic Mahabharata into Bengali language. Kashiram Das: c. 16th century He translated the famous Hindu epic Mahabharata into Bengali language. His version of Mahabharata is known as Kashidasi Mahabharata: Afzal Ali: c. 16th century Best known for his magnum opus, Nasihatnama. Dawlat Wazir Bahram Khan: c. 16th century
Aranyak (Bengali: আরণ্যক, literally "forest-grown, of the forest" [1]) composed between 1937 and 1939 and published in 1939, is a Bengali-language novel by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, [2] [3] based on his years in northern Bihar, mainly in the districts of Purnea and Bhagalpur. The novel explores the journey of its protagonist ...
Kallol (Bengali: কল্লোল) refers to one of the most influential literary movements in Bengali literature, which can be placed approximately between 1923 and 1935. [ citation needed ] The name Kallol of the Kallol group derives from a magazine of the same name (which translates as 'the sound of waves' in Bengali [ citation needed ] ).