Rajshekhar Basu
Rajshekhar Basu (Bengali: রাজশেখর বসু), better known by the pen name Parashuram (পরশুরাম) (March 16, 1880 – April 27, 1960) was a Bengali writer, chemist and lexicographer. He was chiefly known for his comic and satirical short stories, and is considered the greatest Bengali humorist of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1956.Basu began his writing career in the 1920s. He adopted the pen name of Parashuram while writing humorous pieces for a monthly magazine. The name was not, apparently, an homage to the Parashurama of mythology. In fact, Basu simply borrowed the surname of someone at hand, the family goldsmith, Tarachand Parashuram. His first book of stories, Gaddalika, was published in 1924 and drew praise from su
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Hasan Azizul Huq
Hasan Azizul Huq (Bengali: হাসান আজিজুল হক) is a Bangladeshi writer, reputed for his short stories. He was born on 2 February, 1939 in Jabgraam in Burdwan district of West Bengal, India. However, later his parents moved to Fultala, near the city of Khulna, Bangladesh. He was a professor in the department of philosophy in Rajshahi University.
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Huq is well known for his experiments with the language and introducing modern idioms in his writings. His use of language and symbolism has earned him critical acclaim. His stories explore the psychological depths of human beings as well as portray the lives of the peasants of Bangladesh.
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Chinmoy Guha
Chinmoy Guha (born in September 1958 in Kolkata, India) is a professor and former Head of the department of English at the University of Calcutta, a Bengali essayist and translator, and a scholar of French language and literature. He has served as the Vice-Chancellor of Rabindra Bharati University and Director of Publications, Embassy of France, New Delhi. Earlier he taught English at Vijaygarh Jyotish Ray College in Kolkata for more than two decades, and French at the Alliance Française and the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture for eleven and five years respectively.
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Abul Mansur Ahmed (Bangla: আবুল মনসুর আহমেদ) (1898–1979) was a Bangladeshi politician and journalist. His political career helped him writing political satire. He is the most famous political satirist in Bangla literature.
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Bashir Al Helal
বশীর আল-হেলালের জন্ম মুর্শিদাবাদ জেলার তালিবপুর গ্রামের মীর পাড়ায় ১৯৩৬ সালের ৬ জানুয়ারি। ছোটবেলা থেকেই তিনি লেখালেখি করতেন। ১৯৫৬ সালে কলকাতা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় থেকে দ্বিতীয় বিভাগে বাংলায় এম এ পাস করেন। তাঁর প্রথম গল্পের বই 'স্বপ্নের কুশীলব' কলকাতা থেকে প্রকাশিত হয়। ১৯৬৮ সালের শুরুর দিকে তিনি মাকে নিয়ে চলে আসেন ঢাকায়। তারপর ১৯৬৯ সালের শুরুতে সহ-অধ্যক্ষ হিসেবে নিযুক্ত হন বাংলা একাডেমিতে। ১৯৭১ সালে মুক্তিযুদ্ধে সক্রিয়ভাবে অংশগ্রহণ করেন। আর চব্বিশ বছর বাংলা একাডেমিতে কাজ করার পর ১৯৯৩ সালে পরিচালক পদে থেকে অবসর নেন।
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গ্রামীণ ও শহুরে মধ্যবিত্ত মানুষের জীবনকে আরও অর্থবহ করতে জীবনধর্মী ও সমাজ সচেতনতামূলক অসংখ্য ছোটগল্প ও উপন্যাস লিখেন বশীর আল-হেলাল। প্রায় চল্লিশটি প্রকাশিত গ্রন্থের মধ্যে বাংলাভাষার ওপরেই তাঁর গ্রন্থ সংখ্যা ছয়টি। তাঁর আটশো পৃষ্ঠার ভাষা -
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted.
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John Buchan
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John Buchan was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation.
As a youth, Buchan began writing poetry and prose, fiction and non-fiction, publishing his first novel in 1895 and ultimately writing over a hundred books of which the best known is The Thirty-Nine Steps. After attending Glasgow and Oxford universities, he practised as a barrister. In 1901, he served as a private secretary to Lord Milner in southern Africa towards the end of the Boer War. He returned to England in 1903, continued as a barrister and journalist. He left the Bar when he joined Thomas Nelson -
Rabindranath Tagore
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West."
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Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced), and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed—or panned—for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation. His compositions were chosen by two nations as nat -
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.
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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.
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Sanjib Chattopadhyay
Sanjib Chattopadhyay (Bengali: সঞ্জীব চট্ট্যোপাধ্যায়) (born February 28, 1936 in Kolkata) is a Bengali novelist and writer of short stories. His style is characterised by use of short satirical sentences mixed with very lively language.
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Childhood and education:
Sanjib Chattopadhyay spent his childhood in the hilly terrain of Chota Nagpur Plateau under the care of his father after his mother died when he was five. They relocated to Calcutta and he was admitted to Victoria Institution school which he joined at grade seven. He later went to Scottish Church College, Calcutta where he studied chemistry.
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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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Krishan Chander
हिंदी : कृश्न चन्दर
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Urdu Profile:کرشن چندر
Krishan Chander was an Urdu and Hindi writer of short stories and novels. He also worked on English.
He was a prolific writer, penning over 20 novels, 30 collections of short stories and scores of radio plays in Urdu, and later, after partition of the country, took to writing in Hindi as well.
He also wrote screen-plays for Bollywood movies to supplement his meagre income as an author of satirical stories. Krishan Chander's novels (including the classic : Ek Gadhe Ki Sarguzasht, trans. Autobiography of a Donkey) have been translated into over 16 Indian languages and some foreign languages, including English.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Abul Mansur Ahmed
Abul Mansur Ahmed (Bangla: আবুল মনসুর আহমেদ) (1898–1979) was a Bangladeshi politician and journalist. His political career helped him writing political satire. He is the most famous political satirist in Bangla literature.
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Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay
This author has secondary bangla profile-বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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].
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Anwar Pasha
আনোয়ার পাশা একজন বাংলাদেশী কবি, কথা সাহিত্যিক, এবং শিক্ষাবিদ। তাঁর পিতার নাম হাজী মকরম আলী আর মা সাবেরা খাতুন। তিনি মুর্শিদাবাদ জেলার বহরমপুর মোহকুমার রাঙ্গামাটি চাঁদপাড়া ইউনিয়নের অন্তর্গত ডবকাই গ্রামে জন্মগ্রহণ করেন।
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তিনি ১৯৪৬ সালে মাদ্রাসা পরীক্ষায় প্রথম বিভাগে কৃতকার্য হন। কিন্তু ১৯৪৮ সালে আবার উচ্চ মাধ্যমিক পরীক্ষা দিয়ে পাশ করেন। তিনি রাজশাহী কলেজ থেকে বাংলা সাহিত্যে স্নাতক পাশ করেন ১৯৫১ সালে এবং কলকাতা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় থেকে বাংলা সাহিত্যেই স্নাতকোত্তর সম্মাননা অর্জন করেন। মানিকচক হাই মাদ্রাসায় শিক্ষকতার মাধ্যমে আনোয়ার পাশার কর্মজীবন শুরু হয়। পরে তিনি ১৯৫৪ সালে ভাবতা আজিজিয়া হাই মাদ্রাসায় এবং ১৯৫৭ সালে সাদিখান দিয়ার বহুমুখী উচ্চ মাধ্যমিক বিদ্যালয়ে শিক্ষকতা করেন। ১৯৫৮ সালে তিনি পাবনা এডওয়ার্ড কলেজে প্রভাষক হিসেবে যোগ দেন এবং প -
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Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
শীর্ষেন্দু মুখোপাধ্যায় একজন ভারতীয় বাঙালি সাহিত্যিক।
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তিনি ব্রিটিশ ভারতের বেঙ্গল প্রেসিডেন্সির অন্তর্গত ময়মনসিংহে (বর্তমানে বাংলাদেশের অংশ) জন্মগ্রহণ করেন—যেখানে তাঁর জীবনের প্রথম এগারো বছর কাটে। ভারত বিভাজনের সময় তাঁর পরিবার কলকাতা চলে আসে। এই সময় রেলওয়েতে চাকুরিরত পিতার সঙ্গে তিনি অসম, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ ও বিহারের বিভিন্ন স্থানে তাঁর জীবন অতিবাহিত করেন। তিনি কোচবিহারের ভিক্টোরিয়া কলেজ থেকে মাধ্যমিক শিক্ষা সম্পন্ন করেন। পরে কলকাতা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় থেকে বাংলায় স্নাতকোত্তর ডিগ্রি লাভ করেন। শীর্ষেন্দু একজন বিদ্যালয়ের শিক্ষক হিসেবে তাঁর কর্মজীবন শুরু করেন। বর্তমানে তিনি আনন্দবাজার পত্রিকা ও দেশ পত্রিকার সঙ্গে জড়িত।
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Abhigyan Ganguly
Dr. Abhigyan Ganguly holds a PhD degree in Nano-Electronics, while taking time out of his busy schedule to write a little and read a lot more. His first solo book "Hatyashastra" was published in 2022, which is a historical/detective fiction in Bengali and was an instant hit among Bengali readers.
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Subarno Bose
সুবর্ণ বসুর জন্ম ৯ আগস্ট, ১৯৮৪, উত্তর কলকাতার শ্যামবাজারে। গভর্নমেন্ট স্পনসর্ড মাল্টিপারপাস স্কুল ফর বয়েজ টাকী হাউস থেকে মাধ্যমিক এবং হেয়ার স্কুল থেকে উচ্চ মাধ্যমিক পাশ করেছেন। বিদ্যাসাগর কলেজ থেকে প্রাণীবিদ্যায় স্নাতক, কলকাতা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের প্রেসিডেন্সি কলেজ থেকে স্নাতকোত্তর। কেরিয়ার ম্যাগাজ়িনে সাংবাদিকতা দিয়ে কর্মজীবন শুরু, বর্তমানে ‘আনন্দমেলা’ পত্রিকার সম্পাদকীয় বিভাগের সঙ্গে যুক্ত। প্রথম গল্প ‘টেলিফোনিক’, প্রকাশিত হয়েছিল ‘উনিশ কুড়ি’ পত্রিকায়। ‘উনিশ কুড়ি’ পত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত গোয়েন্দা অনমিত্রর রহস্যকাহিনি সিরিজ় পাঠকমহলে বিশেষ জনপ্রিয়। লিখেছেন বহু ছোটদের গল্পও। তাঁর ধর্ম, পুরাণ এবং দেবদেবী বিষয়ক বহু নিবন্ধও বিভিন্ন পত্র-পত্রিকায় নিয়মিত প্রকাশিত এবং সমাদৃত।
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Subarno Bose
সুবর্ণ বসুর জন্ম ৯ আগস্ট, ১৯৮৪, উত্তর কলকাতার শ্যামবাজারে। গভর্নমেন্ট স্পনসর্ড মাল্টিপারপাস স্কুল ফর বয়েজ টাকী হাউস থেকে মাধ্যমিক এবং হেয়ার স্কুল থেকে উচ্চ মাধ্যমিক পাশ করেছেন। বিদ্যাসাগর কলেজ থেকে প্রাণীবিদ্যায় স্নাতক, কলকাতা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের প্রেসিডেন্সি কলেজ থেকে স্নাতকোত্তর। কেরিয়ার ম্যাগাজ়িনে সাংবাদিকতা দিয়ে কর্মজীবন শুরু, বর্তমানে ‘আনন্দমেলা’ পত্রিকার সম্পাদকীয় বিভাগের সঙ্গে যুক্ত। প্রথম গল্প ‘টেলিফোনিক’, প্রকাশিত হয়েছিল ‘উনিশ কুড়ি’ পত্রিকায়। ‘উনিশ কুড়ি’ পত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত গোয়েন্দা অনমিত্রর রহস্যকাহিনি সিরিজ় পাঠকমহলে বিশেষ জনপ্রিয়। লিখেছেন বহু ছোটদের গল্পও। তাঁর ধর্ম, পুরাণ এবং দেবদেবী বিষয়ক বহু নিবন্ধও বিভিন্ন পত্র-পত্রিকায় নিয়মিত প্রকাশিত এবং সমাদৃত।
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