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Vijay Tendulkar

Vijay Tendulkar (Marathi: विजय तेंडुलकर) (7 January 1928 – 19 May 2008) was a leading Indian playwright, movie and television writer, literary essayist, political journalist, and social commentator primarily in Marāthi. He is best known for his plays, Shantata! Court Chalu Aahe (1967), Ghāshirām Kotwāl (1972), and Sakhārām Binder (1972).Many of Tendulkar’s plays derived inspiration from real-life incidents or social upheavals, which provides clear light on harsh realities. He provided his guidance to students studying “Playwright writing” in US universities. For over five decades, Tendulkar had been a highly influential dramatist and theater personality in Mahārāshtra.
Early life
Vijay Dhondopant Tendulkar was born on 7 January 1928 in a Bhal

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Rana Ayyub

Rana Ayyub is an Indian journalist and opinion columnist with The Washington Post. She is the author of the investigative book Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up. Her father, Mohammad Ayyub Waqif, was a writer with Blitz, a Mumbai-based magazine, and an important member of the progressive writers movement. The city witnessed riots in 1992–93, during which time the family moved to the Muslim-dominant suburb of Deonar, which is where Rana largely grew up. Ayyub is a practicing Muslim.

Rana's worked for Tehelka, a Delhi-based investigative and political news magazine. Rana has previously been critical of the BJP in general and Narendra Modi. At Tehelka, Rana worked as an investigative journalist and her big assignment was to carry out the sti

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Tom Sullivan

Tom Sullivan is an American singer, actor, writer, and motivational speaker. Blind since infancy, he has been a public advocate for assistive services for the blind, and research into treatments for blindness.

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Jason Gregory

Jason Gregory is an author, philosopher, and teacher with expertise primarily in Eastern philosophy and spirituality, with a deep-rooted background in Western philosophy, comparative religion, psychology, cognitive science, metaphysics, and ancient cultures, as he seamlessly bridges the gap between ancient wisdom and contemporary understanding.

With over 15 years of dedicated teaching, Jason has enriched countless lives by sharing the wisdom gained from his immersive journeys to the remote corners of Asia, resulting in numerous published works. He is the author of several books, including Spiritual Freedom in the Digital Age, Emotional Intuition for Peak Performance, Effortless Living, Fasting the Mind, Enlightenment Now, and The Science an

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François de La Rochefoucauld

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François de la Rochefoucauld

François VI, duc de la Rochefoucauld, prince de Marcillac (French: [fʁɑ̃swa d(ə) la ʁɔʃfuko]; 15 September 1613 – 17 March 1680) was a noted French author of maxims and memoirs. It is said that his world-view was clear-eyed and urbane, and that he neither condemned human conduct nor sentimentally celebrated it. Born in Paris on the Rue des Petits Champs, at a time when the royal court was vacillating between aiding the nobility and threatening it, he was considered an exemplar of the accomplished 17th-century noblema

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Donald Margulies

Born in Brooklyn in 1954, Donald Margulies grew up in Trump Village, a Coney Island housing project built by Donald Trump's father. Margulies was exposed early to the theatre. His father, a wallpaper salesman, played show tunes on the family hi-fi and, despite a limited income, often took his children to Manhattan to attend Broadway plays and musicals.

Margulies studied visual arts at the Pratt Institute before transferring to State University of New York to pursue a degree in playwriting. During the early 80s, he collaborated with Joseph Papp, and his first Off-Broadway play, Found a Peanut, was produced at the Public Theatre. In 1983, he moved with his wife to New Haven, Connecticut, so that she could attend Yale Medical School.

In 1992, Ma

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Rujuta Diwekar

Winner of the 'Nutrition Award' from ASIAN INSTITUTE OF GASTROENTEROLOGY, Rujuta is amongst the most qualified and sought after sports science and nutrition expert in the country and the only nutritionist to have associate membership from SPORTS DIETITIANS, AUSTRALIA. In the plethora of diet fads and fears, her voice rings loud and clear, urging us to use our common sense and un-complicate the act of eating. Having worked with people from all walks of life, of all age groups and varying fitness levels, she has fine-tuned her methods to fit the lifestyle of the urban Indian.

Her two books and the film 'INDIAN FOOD WISDOM' have been on top of the best-selling charts for more than 5 years now. Her third book on exercise 'DON'T LOSE OUT, WORK OU

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Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

Mirza Ghalib (Urdu: مرزا غالب) born Mirza Asadullah Beg Khan (Urdu/Persian: مرزا اسد اللہ بیگ خان) was a classical Urdu and Persian poet from India during British colonial rule. He used as his pen-name Ghalib (Urdu/Persian: غالب, ġhālib means dominant) and Asad (Urdu/Persian: اسد, Asad means lion. His honour title was Dabir-ul-Mulk, Najm-ud-Daula.

During his lifetime the Mughals were eclipsed and finally deposed by the British following the defeat of the Indian Revolt of 1857, events that he wrote of. Most notably, he wrote several ghazals during his life, which have since been interpreted and sung in many different ways by different people. In South Asia, he is considered to be one of the most popular and influential poets of the Urdu langu

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O. Henry

Such volumes as Cabbages and Kings (1904) and The Four Million (1906) collect short stories, noted for their often surprising endings, of American writer William Sydney Porter, who used the pen name O. Henry.

His biography shows where he found inspiration for his characters. His era produced their voices and his language.

Mother of three-year-old Porter died from tuberculosis. He left school at fifteen years of age and worked for five years in drugstore of his uncle and then for two years at a Texas sheep ranch.

In 1884, he went to Austin, where he worked in a real estate office and a church choir and spent four years as a draftsman in the general land office. His wife and firstborn died, but daughter Margaret survived him.

He failed

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Seamus Heaney

Works of Irish poet Seamus Justin Heaney reflect landscape, culture, and political crises of his homeland and include the collections Wintering Out (1972) and Field Work (1979) as well as a translation of Beowulf (1999). He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1995.

This writer and lecturer won this prize "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past."

Heaney on Wikipedia.

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Kazi Nazrul Islam

Kazi Nazrul Islam (Bengali: কাজী নজরুল ইসলাম) was a Bengali poet, musician and revolutionary who pioneered poetic works espousing intense spiritual rebellion against fascism and oppression. His poetry and nationalist activism earned him the popular title of Bidrohi Kobi (Rebel Poet). Accomplishing a large body of acclaimed works through his life, Nazrul is officially recognised as the national poet of Bangladesh and commemorated in India.

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Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Bharat Ratna Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan was an Indian philosopher and statesman. He was the first Vice-President of India (1952–1962) and subsequently the second President of India (1962–1967).

One of India's most influential scholars of comparative religion and philosophy, Radhakrishnan is thought of as having built a bridge between the East and the West by showing that the philosophical systems of each tradition are comprehensible within the terms of the other. He wrote authoritative exegeses of India's religious and philosophical literature for the English speaking world. His academic appointments included the King George V Chair of Mental and Moral Science at the University of Calcutta (1921-?) and Spalding Professor of Eastern Religions

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Erich Segal

Erich Wolf Segal was an American author, screenwriter, and educator. He was best-known for writing the novel Love Story, a bestseller, and writing the motion picture of the same name, which was a major hit.

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Fanny Fern

Fanny Fern, born Sara Willis (July 9, 1811 – October 10, 1872), was an American newspaper columnist, humorist, novelist, and author of children's stories in the 1850s-1870s. Fern's great popularity has been attributed to her conversational style and sense of what mattered to her mostly middle-class female readers. By 1855, Fern was the highest-paid columnist in the United States, commanding $100 per week for her New York Ledger column.

A collection of her columns published in 1853 sold 70,000 copies in its first year. Her best-known work, the fictional autobiography Ruth Hall (1854), has become a popular subject among feminist literary scholars.

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Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (Bengali: বঙ্কিম চন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়) ('Chattopadhyay' in the original Bengali; 'Chatterjee' as spelt by the British) was a Bengali poet, novelist, essayist and journalist, most famous as the author of Vande Mataram or Bande Mataram, that inspired the freedom fighters of India, and was later declared the National Song of India.

Complete works of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (বঙ্কিম রচনাবলী) is now available in this third party website (in Bengali):
https://bankim-rachanabali.nltr.org/

Chatterjee is considered as a key figure in literary renaissance of Bengal as well as India. Some of his writings, including novels, essays and commentaries, were a breakaway from traditional verse-oriented Indian writings, and provi

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Kālidāsa

Poetry of Indian dramatist and lyric poet Kalidasa (circa 375-circa 415) represents the height of the kavya style, which his epic poem Raghuvamsha and his lyric poem Meghaduta exemplify.

Poeple widely regard Kālidāsa (Devanāgarī: कालिदास "servant of Kali") as the greatest renowned writer in the classical Sanskrit language.

We know nothing with certainty about the life of Kālidāsa apart from works but speculate about the place where he lived or the dates of his birth and death. According to legend, his known beauty brought him to the attention of Vidyottama, princess, who married him.
Kālidāsa, however, legendarily lacked much education, and his ignorance and coarseness shamed the princess. A devoted worshipper of Kali (by other accou

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Huma Qureshi

I started my career on The Observer and The Guardian and worked as a reporter and features writer across consumer news, news and the life and style sections before going freelance to write my first book, In Spite of Oceans, published in 2014 by The History Press. In Spite of Oceans received the John C. Laurence Award from The Authors’ Foundation.

In 2021, I saw two books published: How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures (January, 2021), with Elliott & Thompson, and my debut short story collection, Things We Do Not Tell The People We Love (November 2021), with Sceptre. Sceptre will also be publishing my debut novel, which I am currently writing. My essay, By Instinct, appears in The Best Most Awful Job: Twenty Writers Talk Hone

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Albert Bermel

A respected theatre critic for The New Leader and a published playwright, author, and translator of classical works for the modern theater.

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Amartya Sen

Amartya Kumar Sen is an Indian economist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics and social choice theory, and for his interest in the problems of society’s poorest members.

Sen was best known for his work on the causes of famine, which led to the development of practical solutions for preventing or limiting the effects of real or perceived shortages of food. He is currently the Thomas W. Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University. He is also a senior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he previously served as Master from the years 1998 to 2004. He is the first Asian and the firs

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Humayun Ahmed

Humayun Ahmed (Bengali: হুমায়ূন আহমেদ; 13 November 1948 – 19 July 2012) was a Bangladeshi author, dramatist, screenwriter, playwright and filmmaker. He was the most famous and popular author, dramatist and filmmaker ever to grace the cultural world of Bangladesh since its independence in 1971. Dawn referred to him as the cultural legend of Bangladesh. Humayun started his journey to reach fame with the publication of his novel Nondito Noroke (In Blissful Hell) in 1972, which remains one of his most famous works. He wrote over 250 fiction and non-fiction books, all of which were bestsellers in Bangladesh, most of them were number one bestsellers of their respective years by a wide margin. In recognition to the works of Humayun, Times of Indi

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Selina Hossain

Selina Hossain (Bangla: সেলিনা হোসেন) is a famous novelist in Bangladesh. She was honored with Bangla Academy Award in 1980. she was the director of Bangla Academy from 1997 to 2004.

সেলিনা হোসেন (জন্ম: ১৯৪৭) বাংলাদেশের অগ্রগণ্য কথাসাহিত্যিকদের অন্যতম। তিনি রাজশাহী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় থেকে বাংলা ভাষা ও সাহিত্যে বি এ অনার্স পাশ করলেন ১৯৬৭ সালে। এম এ পাশ করেন ১৯৬৮ সালে। তাঁর কর্মজীবন শুরু হয় ১৯৭০ সালে বাংলা একাডেমীর গবেষণা সহকারী হিসেবে। তিনি ১৯৯৭ সালে বাংলা একাডেমীর প্রথম মহিলা পরিচালক হন। ২০০৪ সালের ১৪ জুন চাকুরি থেকে অবসর নেন।

গল্প ও উপন্যাসে সিদ্ধহস্ত। এ পর্যন্ত ৭টি গল্প সংকলন, ২০টি উপন্যাস, ৫টি শিশুতোষ গল্প, ৫টি প্রবন্ধের বই প্রকাশিত হয়েছে। এছাড়াও সম্পাদনা করেছেন বেশ কিছু বই। সাহিত্যে অবদানের স্বীকৃতি হিসাবে প্রাপ্ত উল্লেখযোগ্য পুরস্কারের মধ

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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

This author has secondary bangla profile-বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়.

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (Bangla: বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়) was an Indian Bangali author and one of the leading writers of modern Bangla literature. His best known work is the autobiographical novel, Pather Panchali: Song of the Road which was later adapted (along with Aparajito, the sequel) into the Apu Trilogy films, directed by Satyajit Ray.

The 1951 Rabindra Puraskar, the most prestigious literary award in the West Bengal state of India, was posthumously awarded to Bibhutibhushan for his novel ইছামতী.

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Samaresh Majumdar

Samaresh Majumdar (Bangla: সমরেশ মজুমদার) was a well-known Bengali writer. He spent his childhood years in the tea gardens of Duars, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India. He was a student of the Jalpaiguri Zilla School, Jalpaiguri. He completed his bachelors in Bengali from Scottish Church College, Kolkata. His first story appeared in "Desh" (a Bengali magazine) in 1967. "Dour" (Run) was his first novel, which was published in "Desh" in 1976.

Author of novels, short stories and travelogues, Samaresh received the Indian government's coveted Sahitya Akademi award for the second book of the Animesh series, Kalbela.

Some of his famous characters are:
1. Animesh & Madhabilata of Animesh trilogy (Uttaradhikar, Kaalbela, and Kalpurush)
2. Arjun - the sleuth

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Muhammed Zafar Iqbal

মুহম্মদ জাফর ইকবাল (Bengali)

Muhammed Zafar Iqbal (Bengali: মুহম্মদ জাফর ইকবাল) is one of the most famous Bangladeshi author of Science-Fiction and Children's Literature ever to grace the Bengali literary community since the country's independence in 1971. He is a professor of Computer Science & Engineering at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST). Before that, Iqbal worked as a research scientist in Bell Communication Research for six years until 1994.

Birth and Family Background:
Iqbal was born on 23 December 1952 in Sylhet. His father, Foyzur Rahman Ahmed, was a police officer. In his childhood, he traveled various part of Bangladesh, because of his father's transferring job. Zafar Iqbal was encouraged by his father for writ

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Jacques Prévert

Jacques Prévert est un poète et scénariste français, né le 4 février 1900 à Neuilly-sur-Seine, et mort le 11 avril 1977 à Omonville-la-Petite (Manche). Auteur d'un premier succès, le recueil de poèmes, Paroles, il devint un poète populaire grâce à son langage familier et à ses jeux sur les mots. Ses poèmes sont depuis lors célèbres dans le monde francophone et massivement appris dans les écoles françaises. Il a également écrit des scénarios pour le cinéma où il est un des artisans du réalisme poétique.

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Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

Begum Roquia Sakhawat Hussain, popularly known as Begum Rokeya, was born in 1880 in the village of Pairabondh, Mithapukur, Rangpur, in what was then the British Indian Empire and is now Bangladesh.

Begum Rokeya was an inspiring figure who contributed much to the struggle to liberate women from the bondage of social malaises. Her life can be seen in the context of other social reformers within what was then India. To raise popular consciousness, especially among women, she wrote a number of articles, stories and novels, mostly in Bengali.

Rokeya used humor, irony, and satire to focus attention on the injustices faced by Bengali-speaking Muslim women. She criticized oppressive social customs forced upon women that were based upon a corrupted ve

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Syed Waliullah

Syed Waliullah was born on 15 August 1922 at Sholashahar in Chittagong. After completing his Bachelor’s from Ananda Mohan College in Mymensingh, he enrolled at Calcutta University but did not complete his Master’s. Proficient in both Bangla and English, he worked for the Statesman during 1945-1947. After the Partition, he moved to Dhaka and joined Radio Pakistan as assistant news editor. In 1950 he was posted to Radio Pakistan, Karachi. From 1951 to 1960 he served as press attache at Pakistan missions in New Delhi, Sydney, Jakarta and London. It was in Sydney that Waliullah met Anne-Marie Thibaud, whom he later married and who translated Lal Shalu into French. In 1960 Waliullah moved to Paris where he served as first secretary at the Pakist

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Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (Bengali: বঙ্কিম চন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়) ('Chattopadhyay' in the original Bengali; 'Chatterjee' as spelt by the British) was a Bengali poet, novelist, essayist and journalist, most famous as the author of Vande Mataram or Bande Mataram, that inspired the freedom fighters of India, and was later declared the National Song of India.

Complete works of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (বঙ্কিম রচনাবলী) is now available in this third party website (in Bengali):
https://bankim-rachanabali.nltr.org/

Chatterjee is considered as a key figure in literary renaissance of Bengal as well as India. Some of his writings, including novels, essays and commentaries, were a breakaway from traditional verse-oriented Indian writings, and provi

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Manik Bandopadhyay

Manik Bandopadhyay (Bengali: মানিক বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়) was an Indian Bengali novelist and is considered one of the leading lights of modern Bangla fiction. During a short lifespan of forty-eight years, plagued simultaneously by illness and financial crisis, he produced 36 novels and 177 short-stories. His important works include Padma Nadir Majhi (The Boatman on The River Padma, 1936) and Putul Nacher Itikatha (The Puppet's Tale, 1936), Shahartali (The Suburbia, 1941) and Chatushkone (The Quadrilateral, 1948).

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Syed Waliullah

Syed Waliullah was born on 15 August 1922 at Sholashahar in Chittagong. After completing his Bachelor’s from Ananda Mohan College in Mymensingh, he enrolled at Calcutta University but did not complete his Master’s. Proficient in both Bangla and English, he worked for the Statesman during 1945-1947. After the Partition, he moved to Dhaka and joined Radio Pakistan as assistant news editor. In 1950 he was posted to Radio Pakistan, Karachi. From 1951 to 1960 he served as press attache at Pakistan missions in New Delhi, Sydney, Jakarta and London. It was in Sydney that Waliullah met Anne-Marie Thibaud, whom he later married and who translated Lal Shalu into French. In 1960 Waliullah moved to Paris where he served as first secretary at the Pakist

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Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

Complete works of Sarat Chandra (শরৎ রচনাবলী) is now available in this third party website:
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Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (also spelt Saratchandra) (Bengali: শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়) was a legendary Bengali novelist from India. He was one of the most popular Bengali novelists of the early 20th century.

His childhood and youth were spent in dire poverty as his father, Motilal Chattopadhyay, was an idler and dreamer and gave little security to his five children. Saratchandra received very little formal education but inherited something valuable from his father—his imagination and love of literature.

He started writing in his early teens and two stories written then have survived—‘Korel’ and ‘Kashinath’. Sara

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Patrick Olivelle

Patrick Olivelle is Emeritus Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Religions at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Fakir Mohan Senapati

Fakir Mohan Senapati (Odia: ଫକୀର ମୋହନ ସେନାପତି), often referred to as Utkala Byasa Kabi (Odisha's Vyasa), was an Indian writer, poet, philosopher and social reformer. He played a leading role in establishing the distinct identity of Odia, a language mainly spoken in the Indian state of Odisha. Fakirmohan Senapati is regarded as the father of Odia nationalism and modern Odia literature.
(courtesy: wiki)

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Ramakrishna

Ramakrishna Paramahansa, born Gadadhar Chattopadhyay, was a famous mystic of 19th-century India. His religious school of thought led to the formation of the Ramakrishna Mission by his chief disciple Swami Vivekananda. both were influential figures in the Bengali Renaissance as well as the Hindu renaissance during the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Bhagat Singh

Bhagat Singh was an Indian socialist considered to be one of the most influential revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement. He is often referred to as "Shaheed Bhagat Singh", the word "Shaheed" meaning "martyr" in a number of South Asian and Middle Eastern languages. Born into a Sikh family which had earlier been involved in revolutionary activities against the British Raj, as a teenager Singh studied European revolutionary movements and was attracted to anarchist and Marxist ideologies. He became involved in numerous revolutionary organisations, and quickly rose through the ranks of the Hindustan Republican Association (HRA) to become one of its main leaders, eventually changing its name to the Hindustan Socialist Republican Ass

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Amrita Pritam

Amrita Pritam (Punjabi: ਅਮ੍ਰਿਤਾ ਪ੍ਰੀਤਮ, امرتا پریتم ) was considered the first prominent woman Punjabi poet, novelist, and essayist. She was the leading 20th-century poet of the Punjabi language, who is equally loved on both the sides of the India-Pakistan border. With a career spanning over six decades, she produced over 100 books, of poetry, fiction, biographies, essays, a collection of Punjabi folk songs and an autobiography that were translated into several Indian and foreign languages.

She is most remembered for her poignant poem, Aj Aakhaan Waris Shah Nu (Today I invoke Waris Shah - "Ode to Waris Shah"), an elegy to the 18th-century Punjabi poet in which she expressed her anguish over massacres during the partition of India in 1947. A

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Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay

Complete works of Sarat Chandra (শরৎ রচনাবলী) is now available in this third party website:
http://sarat-rachanabali.becs.ac.in/i...

Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (also spelt Saratchandra) (Bengali: শরৎচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়) was a legendary Bengali novelist from India. He was one of the most popular Bengali novelists of the early 20th century.

His childhood and youth were spent in dire poverty as his father, Motilal Chattopadhyay, was an idler and dreamer and gave little security to his five children. Saratchandra received very little formal education but inherited something valuable from his father—his imagination and love of literature.

He started writing in his early teens and two stories written then have survived—‘Korel’ and ‘Kashinath’. Sara

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O. Henry

Such volumes as Cabbages and Kings (1904) and The Four Million (1906) collect short stories, noted for their often surprising endings, of American writer William Sydney Porter, who used the pen name O. Henry.

His biography shows where he found inspiration for his characters. His era produced their voices and his language.

Mother of three-year-old Porter died from tuberculosis. He left school at fifteen years of age and worked for five years in drugstore of his uncle and then for two years at a Texas sheep ranch.

In 1884, he went to Austin, where he worked in a real estate office and a church choir and spent four years as a draftsman in the general land office. His wife and firstborn died, but daughter Margaret survived him.

He failed

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Jacob Abbott

Abbott was born at Hallowell, Maine to Jacob and Betsey Abbott. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1820; studied at Andover Theological Seminary in 1821, 1822, and 1824; was tutor in 1824-1825, and from 1825 to 1829 was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Amherst College; was licensed to preach by the Hampshire Association in 1826; founded the Mount Vernon School for Young Ladies in Boston in 1829, and was principal of it in 1829-1833; was pastor of Eliot Congregational Church (which he founded), at Roxbury, Massachusetts in 1834-1835; and was, with his brothers, a founder, and in 1843-1851 a principal of Abbott's Institute, and in 1845-1848 of the Mount Vernon School for Boys, in New York City.

He was a prolific author, wri

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Pankaj Kapur

Pankaj Kapur is an Indian theatre, television and film actor.

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Sarah Harvey

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Cao Xueqin

Xueqin Cao (Chinese: 曹雪芹; pinyin: Cáo Xuěqín; Wade–Giles: Ts'ao Hsueh-ch'in, 1715 or 1724 — 1763 or 1764) was the pseudonym of a Qing Dynasty Chinese writer, best known as the author of Dream of the Red Chamber, one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.
It has been suggested that his given name was Zhan Cao (曹霑) and his courtesy name is Mengruan (夢阮; 梦阮; literally "Dream about Ruan" or "Dream of Ruan")[...]

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Mahasweta Devi

Mahasweta Devi was an Indian social activist and writer. She was born in 1926 in Dhaka, to literary parents in a Hindu Brahmin family. Her father Manish Ghatak was a well-known poet and novelist of the Kallol era, who used the pseudonym Jubanashwa. Mahasweta's mother Dharitri Devi was also a writer and a social worker.

She joined the Rabindranath Tagore-founded Vishvabharati University in Santiniketan and completed a B.A. (Hons) in English, and then finished an M.A. in English at Calcutta University as well. She later married renowned playwright Bijon Bhattacharya who was one of the founding fathers of the IPTA movement. In 1948, she gave birth to Nabarun Bhattacharya, currently one of Bengal's and India's leading novelist whose works are n

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Daya Pawar

Daya Pawar or Dagdu Maruti Pawar (1935[1]–20 December 1996[2]) was born to a Mahar Dalit family in Dhamangaon (Taluka: Akole, District: Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, India), was a Marathi author and poet known for his contributions to Dalit literature that dealt with the atrocities experienced by the dalits or untouchables under the Hindu caste system.

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Gao Xingjian

Gao Xingjian is a Chinese-born novelist, playwright, critic, and painter. An émigré to France since 1987, Gao was granted French citizenship in 1997. The recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Literature, he is also a noted translator (particularly of Samuel Beckett and Eugène Ionesco), screenwriter, stage director, and a celebrated painter.

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A.C. Bhaktivedanta

His Divine Grace Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (अभय चरणारविन्द भक्तिवेदान्त स्वामी प्रभुपाद)was born as Abhay Charan De on 1 September 1896 in Calcutta, India.

He first met his spiritual master, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami, in Calcutta in 1922. Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, a prominent devotional scholar and the founder of sixty-four branches of Gaudiya Mathas (Vedic institutes), liked this educated young man and convinced him to dedicate his life to teaching Vedic knowledge in the Western world. Srila Prabhupada became his student, and eleven years later (1933) at Allahabad, he became his formally initiated disciple.

At their first meeting, in 1922, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura requested Srila Prabh

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Amy Levy

Levy was born in Clapham, London, the second daughter of Lewis Levy and Isobel Levin. Her Jewish family was mildly observant, but as an adult Levy no longer practised Judaism; she continued to identify with the Jews as a people.

She was educated at Brighton High School, Brighton, and studied at Newnham College, Cambridge; she was the first Jewish student at Newnham, when she arrived in 1879, but left after four terms.

Her circle of friends included Clementina Black, Dollie Radford, Eleanor Marx (daughter of Karl Marx), and Olive Schreiner. Levy wrote stories, essays, and poems for periodicals, some popular and others literary. Her writing career began early; her poem "Ida Grey" appearing in the journal the Pelican when she was only fourteen.

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Vikram Seth

Vikram Seth is an Indian poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children's writer, biographer and memoirist.

During the course of his doctorate studies at Stanford, he did his field work in China and translated Hindi and Chinese poetry into English. He returned to Delhi via Xinjiang and Tibet which led to a travel narrative From Heaven Lake: Travels Through Sinkiang and Tibet (1983) which won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award.

The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse (1986) was his first novel describing the experiences of a group of friends who live in California. A Suitable Boy (1993), an epic of Indian life set in the 1950s, got him the WH Smith Literary Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize.

His poetry includes The Humble Administrator's

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Lalla

Lalla, also affectionately called Lalli, Lal Ded, Lal Diddi ("Granny Lal"), or Lalleshwari, was born near Srinagar in Kashmir in northern India.

Little is known with certainty about her life, other than hints that come to us through her poetry and songs.

She was a young bride, married, tradition says, at the age of twelve. After moving into her husband's family home, she was abused by her mother-in-law and ignored by her husband.

A story is told about "Lalla's Lake" -- one day when returning from the well with a clay water jug on her head, her husband lost his temper over her delay and struck the jug in his anger. The clay vessel broke but, miraculously, the water held its shape above her head. This becomes an important symbol of the heaven

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Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

Krishna Dvaipāyana Vyāsa, also known as Vyāsa or Veda-Vyāsa (वेदव्यास, the one who classified the Vedas into four parts) is a central and revered figure in most Hindu traditions. He is traditonally regarded as the author of the Mahābhārata, although it is also widely held that he only composed the core of the epic, the Bhārata. A significant portion of the epic later was only added in later centuries, which then came to be known as the Mahābhārata. The date of composition of this epic is not known - It was definitvely part of the traditions in Indian subcontinent at the time Gautam Buddha (~500 BCE) which would suggest it having been already around for atleast a few centuries. It was chiefy put down in the written form only somewhere betwee

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His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

His Divine Grace Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (अभय चरणारविन्द भक्तिवेदान्त स्वामी प्रभुपाद)was born as Abhay Charan De on 1 September 1896 in Calcutta, India.

He first met his spiritual master, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami, in Calcutta in 1922. Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, a prominent devotional scholar and the founder of sixty-four branches of Gaudiya Mathas (Vedic institutes), liked this educated young man and convinced him to dedicate his life to teaching Vedic knowledge in the Western world. Srila Prabhupada became his student, and eleven years later (1933) at Allahabad, he became his formally initiated disciple.

At their first meeting, in 1922, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura requested Srila Prabh

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B.R. Ambedkar

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar was born in 1891 into an “Untouchable” family of modest means. One of India’s most radical thinkers, he transformed the social and political landscape in the struggle against British colonialism. He was a prolific writer who oversaw the drafting of the Indian Constitution and served as India’s first Law Minister. In 1935, he publicly declared that though he was born a Hindu, he would not die as one. Ambedkar eventually embraced Buddhism, a few months before his death in 1956.

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Amitav Ghosh

Amitav Ghosh is an Indian writer. He won the 54th Jnanpith award in 2018, India's highest literary honour. Ghosh's ambitious novels use complex narrative strategies to probe the nature of national and personal identity, particularly of the people of India and South Asia. He has written historical fiction and non-fiction works discussing topics such as colonialism and climate change.
Ghosh studied at The Doon School, Dehradun, and earned a doctorate in social anthropology at the University of Oxford. He worked at the Indian Express newspaper in New Delhi and several academic institutions. His first novel, The Circle of Reason, was published in 1986, which he followed with later fictional works, including The Shadow Lines and The Glass Palace.

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Ayi Kwei Armah

Born to Fante-speaking parents, with his father's side Armah descending from a royal family in the Ga tribe in the port city of Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana, [1] Armah, having attended the renowned Achimota School, left Ghana in 1959 to attend Groton School in Groton, MA. After graduating, he entered Harvard University, receiving a degree in sociology. Armah then moved to Algeria and worked as a translator for the magazine Révolution Africaine. In 1964, Armah returned to Ghana, where he was a scriptwriter for Ghana Television and later taught English at the Navrongo School.

Between 1967 and 1968, he was editor of Jeune Afrique magazine in Paris. From 1968-1970, Armah studied at Columbia University, obtaining his MFA in creative writing. In the 19

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Nick Pirog

Nick Pirog is the bestselling author of the Thomas Prescott series, the 3:00 a.m. series, and The Speed of Souls. He lives in South Lake Tahoe with his other half, Stephy, and their pup, Potter.

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Manik Bandopadhyay

Manik Bandopadhyay (Bengali: মানিক বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়) was an Indian Bengali novelist and is considered one of the leading lights of modern Bangla fiction. During a short lifespan of forty-eight years, plagued simultaneously by illness and financial crisis, he produced 36 novels and 177 short-stories. His important works include Padma Nadir Majhi (The Boatman on The River Padma, 1936) and Putul Nacher Itikatha (The Puppet's Tale, 1936), Shahartali (The Suburbia, 1941) and Chatushkone (The Quadrilateral, 1948).

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Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay

Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay (Bengali: শরদিন্দু বন্দোপাধ্যায়; 30 March 1899 – 22 September 1970) was a well-known literary figure of Bengal. He was also actively involved with Bengali cinema as well as Bollywood. His most famous creation is the fictional detective Byomkesh Bakshi.
He wrote different forms of prose: novels, short stories, plays and screenplays. However, his forte was short stories and novels. He wrote historical fiction like Kaler Mandira, GourMollar (initially named as Mouri Nodir Teere), Tumi Sandhyar Megh, Tungabhadrar Teere (all novels), Chuya-Chandan, Maru O Sangha (later made into a Hindi film named Trishangni) and stories of the unnatural with the recurring character Baroda. Besides, he wrote many songs and poems.

Awards:

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Andrew Pettegree

I began my career working on aspects of the European Reformation. My first book was a study of religious refugee communities in the sixteenth century, and since then I have published on the Dutch Revolt, and on the Reformation in Germany, France and England, as well as a general survey history of the sixteenth century. In the last years the focus of my research has shifted towards an interest in the history of communication, and especially the history of the book. I run a research group that in 2011 completed a survey of all books published before1601: the Universal Short Title Catalogue. This work continues with work to incorporate new discoveries and continue the survey into the seventeenth century.

In 2010 I published an award-winning st

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Mannu Bhandari

Mannu Bhandari was born on April 3, 1931, in Bhanpura, Madhya Pradesh, India. She attended school in Ajmer and later she graduated from Calcutta University in 1949, followed by an M.A. degree in Hindi from the Banaras Hindu University in 1953.
She is wife of famous Hindi writer Rajendra Yadav, with whom she co-wrote the book, Ek Inch Muskaan (A Little Smile).

In post independent Hindi literature many new women writers emerged
and attracted the attention of readers and critics but after initial shining some
of them did not make writing of their successful career. Many women writers
have entered the arena of literary writing. Several highly talented writers have
enriched Hindi literature with their creative writings. To name a few Usha
Priyamvada, M

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Nimai Bhattacharya

বাংলা সাহিত্যের এই খ্যাতিমান ঔপন্যাসিক নিমাই ভট্টাচার্য ১৯৩১ সালের ১০ এপ্রিল কলকাতায় জন্মগ্রহণ করেন। তাঁর আদি নিবাস তৎকালীন যশোর জেলার মাগুরা মহকুমার (বর্তমান জেলা) শালিখা থানার অন্তর্গত শরশুনা গ্রামে। তাঁর পিতার নাম সুরেন্দ্রনাথ ভট্টাচার্য।

নিমাই ভট্টাচার্য বাংলাদেশের বগুড়া জেলার কালীতলার বিশিষ্ট ব্যবসায়ীর কন্যা দীপ্তি ভট্টাচার্যকে বিবাহ করেন। কলকাতার টালিগঞ্জের শাশমল রোডের বাসায় বসবাস করতেন তিনি।

জীবনের টানে, জীবিকার গরজে কক্ষচ্যুত উল্কার মত এশিয়া-আফ্রিকা ইউরোপ- আমেরিকা, গ্রাম-গঞ্জ, শহর -নগর ঘুরে বেড়িয়েছেন নিমাই ভট্টাচার্য। যারা তাঁকে ভালবেসে কাছে নিয়েছেন, তাঁদের সংগে লেনদেন হয়েছে হাসি-কান্না, স্নেহ-প্রেম ভালবাসার। হঠাৎ করেই একদিন তাঁদের কথায় লিখতে শুরু করলেন গল্প-উপন্যাস।

নিমাই ভট্টাচার্যের সাহিত্য চিন্তা তাঁর জীবনচর্চার একান্ত অনুগামী হয়ে

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Frédéric Bastiat

Claude Frédéric Bastiat (29 June 1801 – 24 December 1850) was a French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and member of the French assembly.

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Romila Thapar

Romila Thapar is an Indian historian and Professor Emeritus at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

A graduate from Panjab University, Dr. Thapar completed her PhD in the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London.

Her historical work portrays the origins of Hinduism as an evolving interplay between social forces. Her recent work on Somnath examines the evolution of the historiographies about the legendary Gujarat temple.

Thapar has been a visiting professor at Cornell University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the College de France in Paris. She was elected General President of the Indian History Congress in 1983 and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy in 1999.

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Bapsi Sidhwa

Bapsi Sidhwa was a Pakistani novelist who wrote in English and was resident in the United States.
She was best known for her collaborative work with Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta: Sidhwa wrote both the 1991 novel Ice Candy Man which served as the basis for Mehta's 1998 film Earth as well as the 2006 novel Water: A Novel, on which Mehta's 2005 film Water is based. A documentary about Sidhwa's life called "Bapsi: Silences of My Life" was released on the official YouTube channel of " The Citizens Archive of Pakistan" on 28 October 2022 with the title " First Generation -Stories of partition: Bapsi Sidhwa".

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Jahanara Imam

Jahanara Imam (Bangla: জাহানারা ইমাম) was a Bangladeshi writer and political activist. She is most widely remembered for her efforts to bring those accused of committing war crimes in the Bangladesh Liberation War to trial. She was known as "Shaheed Janani" (Mother of Martyrs).

She obtained her Bachelor's Degree in 1947 from Lady Brabourne College of Calcutta University and a Master's Degree from University of Dhaka. She took teaching as her career.

After Bangladesh achieved independence, Jahanara Imam started her literary career. In 1986 she published her wartime diary একাত্তরের দিনগুলি (The days of Seventy One). Publication of this book was a seminal event in the history of Bangladesh. It proved to be a catalyst for the renewal of faith in

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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay

This author has secondary bangla profile-বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়.

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (Bangla: বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়) was an Indian Bangali author and one of the leading writers of modern Bangla literature. His best known work is the autobiographical novel, Pather Panchali: Song of the Road which was later adapted (along with Aparajito, the sequel) into the Apu Trilogy films, directed by Satyajit Ray.

The 1951 Rabindra Puraskar, the most prestigious literary award in the West Bengal state of India, was posthumously awarded to Bibhutibhushan for his novel ইছামতী.

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Abu Ishaque

Abu Ishaque (Abu Bashar Mohammad Ishaque; Bangla: আবু ইসহাক) was a renowned modern Bangladeshi author and a famous novelist. Ishaque is often categorized with those who wrote the least and showed the best. Three novels - one of which is a detective novel, two collections of short stories and the voluminous Samokalin Bangla Bhashar Obhidhan. He comes forth as a major novelist in contemporary literature with the publication of সূর্য দীঘল বাড়ি [Surya-Dighal Bari, that means A Cursed House] written at the age of only twenty one and till now its mighty presence is felt by readers of Bangla fiction. This was the first successful novel in Bangladeshi literature.

Literary awards:
Bangla Academy Literary Award (1963)
Ekushey Padak (1997)
Independence D

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Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray (Bengali: সত্যজিৎ রায়) was an Indian filmmaker and author of Bengali fiction and regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of world cinema. Ray was born in the city of Calcutta into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature. Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into independent filmmaking after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and watching Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist 1948 film, Bicycle Thieves.

Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. He was also a fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, calligrapher, graphic designer and film critic. He authored several short stories and novels, primarily aimed at children and adolescents.

Ray's first film, P

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E.R. Braithwaite

E.R. (Edward Ricardo) Braithwaite was a novelist, writer, teacher, and diplomat, best known for his stories of social conditions and racial discrimination against black people.

An alumnus of Queens College, Braithwaite excelled at City University of New York, after which he served in the RAF during WWII as a fighter pilot (1941-45) and then went on to receive an advanced degree in Physics from Cambridge University (1949). Braithwaite also attended the University of London.

Unable to establish a career in physics, his chosen field, which he attributed to his status as an ethnic minority, Braithwaite turned to teaching.

Braithwaite was perhaps best known as an author for his autobiographical novel To Sir With Love set in an east London second

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Syed Mujtaba Ali

Syed Mujtaba Ali (Bengali: সৈয়দ মুজতবা আলী) was a Bengali author, academician, scholar and linguist.

Syed Mujtaba Ali was born in Karimganj district (in present-day Assam, India). In 1919, he was inspired by Rabindranath Tagore and started writing to the poet. In 1921, Mujtaba joined the Indian freedom struggle and left his school in Sylhet. He went to Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan and graduated in 1926. He was among the first graduates of the university. Later, he moved to Kabul to work in the education department (1927–1929). From 1929 to 1932 he studied at the universities in Berlin, London, Paris and Bonn. He earned Ph.D. degree from University of Bonn with a dissertation on comparative religious studies in Khojas in 1932.
In

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Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay

Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay (Bangla: তারাশঙ্কর বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়) was born at his ancestral home at Labhpur village in Birbhum district, Bengal Province, British India (now West Bengal, India). He wrote 65 novels, 53 story-books, 12 plays, 4 essay-books, 4 autobiographies and 2 travel stories. For his novel Arogyaniketan, he received the Rabindra Puraskar in 1955 and the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1956. In 1966, he received the Jnanpith Award for his novel গণদেবতা. He was honoured with the Padma Shri in 1962 and the Padma Bhushan in 1969.

Tarasankar is one of those writers of the third decades of the twentieth centuries who broke the poetic tradition in novels but took to writing prose with the world around them adding romance to human relationship

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Abraham Eraly

Abraham Eraly is an Indian writer. He has written many acclaimed books on Indian history.

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Akbar Ali Khan

Akbar Ali Khan (Bengali: আকবর আলি খান) was a Bangladeshi economist and educationist who served as a bureaucrat until 2001. He was the SDO of Habiganj during the Bangladesh Liberation War, when he decided to join the war. Later he served as an official of the Mujibnagar Government. After the independence he joined back the civil serviceand reached to the highest post of Cabinet Secretary and also worked as a university teacher. His book Porarthoporotar Orthoniti (Economics of Other-minding) has been a popular book on economics à la Galbraith.

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Shehan Karunatilaka

Shehan Karunatilaka lives and works in Singapore. He has written advertisements, rock songs, travel stories, and bass lines. This is his first novel.

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Upinder Singh

Upinder Singh is an Indian historian and the former head of the History Department at the University of Delhi. She is the dean of faculty and professor of history at Ashoka University. She is also the recipient of the inaugural Infosys Prize in the category of Social Sciences.

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Partha Chatterjee

Partha Chatterjee is a political theorist and historian. He studied at Presidency College in Calcutta, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. He divides his time between Columbia University and the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, where he was the Director from 1997 to 2007. He is the author of more than twenty books, monographs and edited volumes and is a founding member of the Subaltern Studies Collective. He as awarded the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize for 2009 for outstanding achievements in the field of Asian studies. He is also a poet, playwright, and actor. In the Mira Nair film The Namesake (2007), he played the role of “A Reformed Hindoo.”

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Muhammed Zafar Iqbal

মুহম্মদ জাফর ইকবাল (Bengali)

Muhammed Zafar Iqbal (Bengali: মুহম্মদ জাফর ইকবাল) is one of the most famous Bangladeshi author of Science-Fiction and Children's Literature ever to grace the Bengali literary community since the country's independence in 1971. He is a professor of Computer Science & Engineering at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST). Before that, Iqbal worked as a research scientist in Bell Communication Research for six years until 1994.

Birth and Family Background:
Iqbal was born on 23 December 1952 in Sylhet. His father, Foyzur Rahman Ahmed, was a police officer. In his childhood, he traveled various part of Bangladesh, because of his father's transferring job. Zafar Iqbal was encouraged by his father for writ

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Olive Schreiner

Olive Schreiner (24 March 1855 - December 11, 1920), was a South African author, pacifist and political activist. She is best known for her novel The Story of an African Farm, which has been acclaimed for the manner it tackled the issues of its day, ranging from agnosticism to the treatment of women.

From Wikipedia:
Olive Emilie Albertina Schreiner (1855-1920) was named after her three older brothers, Oliver (1848-1854), Albert (1843-1843) and Emile (1852-1852), who died before she was born. She was the ninth of twelve children born to a missionary couple, Gottlob Schreiner and Rebecca Lyndall at the Wesleyan Missionary Society station at Wittebergen in the Eastern Cape, near Herschel in South Africa. Her childhood was a harsh one: her father

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Abu Zakariya

Abu Zakariya has had a life-long interest in comparative religion. Being born in Britain and influenced by his mixed heritage of Arab and European descent, he has had a strong focus on researching Islam and Christianity.

After many years of study, discussions and led by a desire to share his experiences in discussing Islam with people of all religious backgrounds, Abu Zakariya authored the popular comparative religion blog Many Prophets One Message. He has continued his intellectual and academic pursuits by formally studying and learning from academic scholars trained in Islamic thought and theology.

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Arif Azad

আরিফ আজাদ একজন জীবন্ত আলোকবর্তিকা - লেখক আরিফ আজাদকে বর্ণনা করতে গিয়ে একথাই বলেছেন ডঃ শামসুল আরেফিন। গার্ডিয়ান প্রকাশনী আরিফ আজাদের পরিচয় দিতে গিয়ে লিখেছে, “তিনি বিশ্বাস নিয়ে লেখেন, অবিশ্বাসের আয়না চূর্ণবিচুর্ণ করেন।” আরিফ আজাদ এর বই মানেই একুশে বইমেলায় বেস্ট সেলার, এতটাই জনপ্রিয় এ লেখক। সাম্প্রতিককালে বাংলাদেশের সাহিত্য অঙ্গনে সবচেয়ে আলোড়ন তোলা লেখকদের একজন আরিফ আজাদ।

১৯৯০ সালের ৭ই জানুয়ারি চট্টগ্রামে জন্ম নেয়া এ লেখক মাধ্যমিক শিক্ষাজীবন শেষ করে চট্টগ্রাম জিলা স্কুলে। একটি সরকারি কলেজে উচ্চ মাধ্যমিক পাস করে চট্টগ্রাম বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ে ভর্তি হন এবং সেখানে উচ্চশিক্ষা সম্পন্ন করেন।

লেখালেখির ক্যারিয়ারের শুরু থেকেই আরিফ আজাদ এর বই সমূহ পাঠক মহলে ব্যাপক সাড়া ফেলে। তার প্রথম বই ‘প্যারাডক্সিক্যাল সাজিদ’ ২০১৭ সালের একুশে বইমেলায় প্রকাশ পায়। বইটির কেন

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Kallol Lahiri

চলচ্চিত্র বিষয়ে অধ্যাপনা, তথ্যচিত্র নির্মাণ, ফিল্ম, টেলিভিশন ধারাবাহিক ও ওয়েব সিরিজের চিত্রনাট্য রচনা এবং তার ফাঁকে ফাঁকে নিজের ব্লগে নানা স্বাদের লেখালেখি-এইসব নিয়েই কল্লোল লাহিড়ী। প্রকাশিত উপন্যাস গোরা নকশাল (২০১৭)। ইন্দুবালা ভাতের হোটেল(২০২০)। নাইনটিন নাইনটি আ লাভ স্টোরি (২০২২)। ঘুমিয়ে পড়ার আগে (২০২৪)। স্মৃতিগদ্য গ্রন্থ বাবার ইয়াশিকা ক্যামেরা (২০২১)। লেখক গোরা নকশাল এবং ইন্দুবালা ভাতের হোটেল উপন্যাস দুটির জন্য দুহাজার একুশ সালে ভূমধ্যসাগর পত্রিকার 'শ্রীমতী সাধনা সেন সম্মান'-এ সম্মানিত।

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Leela Majumdar

Leela Majumdar (Bengali: লীলা মজুমদার Lila Mojumdar) was a Bengali writer. Her first story, Lakkhi chhele, was published in Sandesh in 1922. It was also illustrated by her. The children's magazine in Bengali was founded by her uncle, Upendrakishore Ray Chaudhuri in 1913 and was later edited by her cousin Sukumar Ray for sometime after the death of Upendrakishore in 1915. Together with her nephew Satyajit Ray and her cousin Nalini Das, she edited and wrote for Sandesh throughout her active writing life. Until 1994 she played an active role in the publication of the magazine.

Creative efforts :
An incomplete bibliography lists 125 books including a collection of short stories, five books under joint authorship, 9 translated books and 19 edited

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Samaresh Majumdar

Samaresh Majumdar (Bangla: সমরেশ মজুমদার) was a well-known Bengali writer. He spent his childhood years in the tea gardens of Duars, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India. He was a student of the Jalpaiguri Zilla School, Jalpaiguri. He completed his bachelors in Bengali from Scottish Church College, Kolkata. His first story appeared in "Desh" (a Bengali magazine) in 1967. "Dour" (Run) was his first novel, which was published in "Desh" in 1976.

Author of novels, short stories and travelogues, Samaresh received the Indian government's coveted Sahitya Akademi award for the second book of the Animesh series, Kalbela.

Some of his famous characters are:
1. Animesh & Madhabilata of Animesh trilogy (Uttaradhikar, Kaalbela, and Kalpurush)
2. Arjun - the sleuth

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Soumitra Biswas

সৌমিত্র বিশ্বাস-এর জন্ম ১৯৬৫ কলকাতায়। শিক্ষা নিউ আলিপুর মাল্টিপারপাস স্কুলে। পরে সেন্ট জেভিয়ার্স কলেজের অর্থনীতির ছাত্র। অর্থনীতিতে স্নাতকোত্তর পাঠ শেষে রাজ্য সরকারের আধিকারিক হিসেবে কর্মজীবন শুরু করেন। বাংলার অধ্যাপিকা মৈত্রেয়ী সরকারের অনুপ্রেরণায় আরও মনোযোগী হয়ে ওঠেন সাহিত্যে। দেশ পত্রিকা আয়োজিত রহস্য গল্প প্রতিযোগিতায় প্রথম স্থান লাভ করে তাঁর ‘মুখোশ’ গল্পটি। দ্বিতীয় গল্প ‘নাস্তিক’ও প্রশংসিত। প্রথম উপন্যাস ‘হেরুক’। আবাল্য সত্য সাইবাবার শিক্ষায় অনুপ্রাণিত মানুষটি ভালবাসেন আড়ম্বরহীন, সৎ জীবনযাপন আর সমাজসেবা। বই ও বন্ধুদের সঙ্গে মননশীল আড্ডায় সমান উৎসাহী।

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Sunil Gangopadhyay

Sunil Gangopadhyay (Bengali: সুনীল গঙ্গোপাধ্যায়) was a famous Indian poet and novelist. Born in Faridpur, Bangladesh, Gangopadhyay obtained his Master's degree in Bengali from the University of Calcutta, In 1953 he started a Bengali poetry magazine Krittibas. Later he wrote for many different publications.

Ganguly created the Bengali fictional character Kakababu and wrote a series of novels on this character which became significant in Indian children's literature. He received Sahitya Academy award in 1985 for his novel Those Days (সেই সময়). Gangopadhyay used the pen names Nil Lohit, Sanatan Pathak, and Nil Upadhyay.

Works:
Author of well over 200 books, Sunil was a prolific writer who has excelled in different genres but declares poetry to b

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Shahaduz Zaman

Shahaduz Zaman (Bangla: শাহাদুজ্জামান) is a Medical Anthropologist, currently working with Newcastle University, UK. He writes short stories, novels, and non-fiction. He has published 25 books, and his debut collection ‘Koyekti Bihbol Galpa’ won the Mowla Brothers Literary Award in 1996. He also won Bangla Academy Literary Award in 2016.

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Satinath Bhaduri

Satinath Bhaduri was a Bengali Indian novelist and politician. He was known by his literary pseudonym, Chitra Gupta. His ancestral home was in Krishnanagar in the district of Nadia. He obtained an MA degree in Economics from the University of Patna in 1930. In 1931 he completed his BL degree. He started practising law at Patna between 1932 and 1939. He then joined Indian National Congress and became a district secretary of Purnia. He was imprisoned in Bhagalpur Jail twice: 1940-41 and 1942-45. In 1948, he fell out with the Congress and joined the Socialist Party.

Satinath's first novel was Jagari (1946), for which he received the very first Rabindra Puraskar (1950). This book earned him considerable fame, and was translated into English in 1

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Shahidullah Kaiser

Shahidullah Kaiser (Bengali: শহীদুল্লাহ কায়সার) was born Abu Nayeem Mohammad Shahidullah. He is the brother of another famous Bengali author Zahir Raihan. Kaiser studied at Presidency College, Kolkata and obtained a Bachelors degree in economics with honours. Later, he enrolled in Masters of Arts at Calcutta University but did not finish getting the degree.

Kaiser was active in politics and cultural movements from his student days. Following the formation of Pakistan in 1947, he became a member of the provincial Communist Party of East Pakistan. He started working as a journalist in 1949 with the Ittefaq in Dhaka. In 1952, he participated actively in the Language Movement. For his political role in the movement for protection of Bengali lang

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Shawkat Ali

Shawkat Ali (Bangla: শওকত আলী) is a major contemporary writer of Bangladesh, and has been contributing to Bangla fiction for the last four decades. Both in novels and short stories he has established his place with much glory. His fiction touches every sphere of life of mass people of Bangladesh. He prefers to deal with history, specially the liberation war in 1971. He was honored with Bangla Academy Award in 1968 and Ekushey Padak in 1990.

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Al Mahmud

Mir Abdus Shukur Al Mahmud (best known as Al Mahmud) was a Bangladeshi poet, novelist, and short-story writer. He was considered one of the greatest Bengali poets to have emerged in the 20th century. His work in Bengali poetry is dominated by his frequent use of regional dialects. In the 1950s he was among those Bengali poets who were outspoken in their writing on such subjects as the events of the Bengali Language Movement, nationalism, political and economical repression, and the struggle against the West Pakistani government.

Notable awards: Bangla Academy Award (1968)
Ekushey Padak (1987)

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Taslima Nasrin

Taslima Nasrin (Bengali: তসলিমা নাসরিন) is an award-winning Bangladeshi writer, physician, secular humanist and human rights activist, known for her powerful writings on women oppression and unflinching criticism of religion, despite forced exile and multiple fatwas calling for her death. Early in her literary career, she wrote mainly poetry, and published half a dozen collections of poetry between 1982 and 1993, often with female oppression as a theme. She started publishing prose in the early 1990s, and produced three collections of essays and four novels before the publication of her 1993 novel Lajja (Bengali: লজ্জা Lôjja), or Shame. Because of her thoughts and ideas she has been banned, blacklisted and banished from Bengal, both from Ba

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Selina Hossain

Selina Hossain (Bangla: সেলিনা হোসেন) is a famous novelist in Bangladesh. She was honored with Bangla Academy Award in 1980. she was the director of Bangla Academy from 1997 to 2004.

সেলিনা হোসেন (জন্ম: ১৯৪৭) বাংলাদেশের অগ্রগণ্য কথাসাহিত্যিকদের অন্যতম। তিনি রাজশাহী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় থেকে বাংলা ভাষা ও সাহিত্যে বি এ অনার্স পাশ করলেন ১৯৬৭ সালে। এম এ পাশ করেন ১৯৬৮ সালে। তাঁর কর্মজীবন শুরু হয় ১৯৭০ সালে বাংলা একাডেমীর গবেষণা সহকারী হিসেবে। তিনি ১৯৯৭ সালে বাংলা একাডেমীর প্রথম মহিলা পরিচালক হন। ২০০৪ সালের ১৪ জুন চাকুরি থেকে অবসর নেন।

গল্প ও উপন্যাসে সিদ্ধহস্ত। এ পর্যন্ত ৭টি গল্প সংকলন, ২০টি উপন্যাস, ৫টি শিশুতোষ গল্প, ৫টি প্রবন্ধের বই প্রকাশিত হয়েছে। এছাড়াও সম্পাদনা করেছেন বেশ কিছু বই। সাহিত্যে অবদানের স্বীকৃতি হিসাবে প্রাপ্ত উল্লেখযোগ্য পুরস্কারের মধ

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Kevin G. Boyle

Kevin Gerard Boyle is the William Smith Mason Professor of American History at Northwestern University.

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Maitreyi Devi

Maitreyi Devi (bn: মৈত্রেয়ী দেবী) was a Bengali-born Indian poetess and novelist, the daughter of philosopher Surendranath Dasgupta and protegée of poet Rabindranath Tagore. She was the basis for the main character in Romanian-born writer Mircea Eliade's 1933 novel La Nuit Bengali (Bengal Nights). In her ন হন্যতে (It Does Not Die) novel, written as a response to Bengal Nights, Maitreyi Devi denied claims of a sexual affair between her and Eliade during the latter's sojourn in British India.

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Carole Levin

Carole Levin is Willa Cather Professor of History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is the author of Dreaming the English Renaissance: Politics and Desire in Court and Culture and The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power.

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Ismat Chughtai

Ismat Chughtai (Urdu: عصمت چغتائی) (August 1915 – 24 October 1991) was an eminent Urdu writer, known for her indomitable spirit and a fierce feminist ideology. She was considered the grand dame of Urdu fiction, Along with Rashid Jahan, Wajeda Tabassum and Qurratulain Hyder, Ismat’s work stands for the birth of a revolutionary feminist politics and aesthetics in twentieth century Urdu literature. She explored feminine sexuality, middle-class gentility, and other evolving conflicts in the modern Muslim world. Her outspoken and controversial style of writing made her the passionate voice for the unheard, and she has become an inspiration for the younger generation of writers, readers and intellectuals.

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Sarnath Banerjee

Sarnath Banerjee (born 1972) is an Indian graphic novelist, artist, and film maker and a co-founder of the comics publishing house, Phantomville.

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Abul Asad

লেখক পরিচিতি
সাইমুম সিরিজের লেখক আবুল আসাদ স্যারের সংক্ষিপ্ত জীবনীঃ

আবুল আসাদ রাজশাহী জেলার বাগমারা থানার নরসিংহপুর গ্রামে জন্মগ্রহণ করেন ১৯৪২ সালে। পিতা এ,কে, ছামছালুল হক ভারতের বেনারসের বিখ্যাত মাদ্রাসা থেকে শিক্ষা লাভকারী স্বনামধন্য একজন আলেম ছিলেন। তার মাতার নাম মজিদা বেগম।
আবুল আসাদ রাজশাহী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় থেকে অর্থনীতিতে এম.এ পাশ করেন। ছাত্রজীবন থেকে তার লেখক ও সাংবাদিকতা জীবনের শুরু। তিনি কয়েকটি দৈনিক ও সাপ্তাহিকে রাজশাহী সংবাদদাতা হিসাবে কাজ করেছেন। ছাত্র জীবনে কলেজ ম্যাগাজিনসহ পত্র-পত্রিকায় লিখিত তাঁর রাজনীতি ও সংস্কৃতি বিষয়ক প্রবন্ধাদি মানুষের দৃষ্টি আকর্ষণ করে।
১৯৭০ সালে ১৭ই জানুয়ারী দৈনিক সংগ্রামে সহকারী সম্পাদক হিসাবে যোগদানের মাধ্যমে তিনি সার্বক্ষণিক সাংবাদিক জীবনের শুরু করেন।
১৯৮১ সালে তিনি দৈনিক সংগ্রামের সম্পাদকের দায়িত্ব গ্রহণ

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Sihinta Sharifa

সম্পাদিকা, মা, এবং গৃহিণী৷ তিন সন্তান৷ ভবিষ্যতে সন্তানদের আলোকিত মানুষ, সত্য পথের যোদ্ধা হিসেবে তৈরী করবেন—এই স্বপ্ন তাঁর৷ এ বিশাল ডামাডোলের মাঝে ইসলামিক অনলাইন ইউনিভার্সিটিতে ব্যাচেলরস অফ এডুকেশনে পড়ার চেষ্টাও চালিয়ে যাচ্ছেন বটে৷

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Shibram Chakraborty

Shibram Chakraborty (Bangla: শিবরাম চক্রবর্তী) was a popular Bengali writer, humorist and revolutionary who is best known for his humorous stories. His best known short stories and novels are renowned for their unique use of pun, alliteration, play of words and ironic humor. He was a prolific author who also wrote poems, plays, non-fiction and novels for mature audiences in his long career.He worked as a volunteer in the Swadeshi movement and came under the affection of Chittaranjan Das [চিত্তরঞ্জন দাস]. During this time he became involved with the magazine Bijli [বিজলী] and Forward as a journalist. He later became the publisher of a magazine called Jugantar [যুগান্তর].

His initial foray into literature was as a poet. His first book of poems

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Narayan Sanyal

Narayan Sanyal (bn: নারায়ণ সান্যাল) was a well-known & versatile writer of modern Bengali literature. He received several awards for literature including Rabindra Puraskar for Aporupa Ajanta (Bangla: অপরূপা অজন্তা) in 1969, Bankim Puraskar for Rupmonjori (Bangla: রূপমঞ্জরী) in 2000, and Narasingha Dutta Award. Many of his books were filmed and he won the Best Film Story Writer Award for Shotyokam (Bangla: সত্যকাম) by Bengal Film Journalists.

Sanyal wrote numerous books that dealt with many topics, such as children, science, art and architecture, travels, psychiatry, technology, refugee problems, history, biographical pieces, encyclopedia of animals, social novel and Devadasi-related. He also wrote a series of detective fiction called the Ka

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Rabindranath Tagore

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