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.
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সৌমিত্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়-এর জন্ম ১৯ জানুয়ারি, ১৯৩৫ কৃষ্ণনগরে। বাবা মোহিতকুমার চট্টোপাধ্যায়, মা আশালতা চট্টোপাধ্যায়। পিতার কর্মসূত্রে ছোটবেলা কেটেছে পশ্চিমবঙ্গের বিভিন্ন জায়গায়। স্মৃতির মধ্যে মন্বন্তর, স্বাধীনতা। ছোটবেলা থেকেই অভিনয়ে আগ্রহ। সঙ্গে বই-এর প্রতি টান। কলেজ জীবনে শিশিরকুমার ভাদুড়ির সান্নিধ্যলাভ। ১৯৫৯-এ প্রথম ছবি, ‘অপুর সংসার’। অতঃপর, -
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His first brush with writing came during his student years, when he tried his hand at poetry. Later he made his mark as a writer of short stories, novels and plays and also emerged as a critic and journalist. In the early 1940s he wrote a three-p -
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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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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 -
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ড. আবদুল্লাহ জাহাঙ্গীর ছিলেন একাধারে ইসলামী চিন্তাবিদ, টিভি আলোচক, ইসলামী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের (ইবি) আল হাদিস অ্যান্ড ইসলামিক স্টাডিস বিভাগের অধ্যাপক আলেম, গবেষক ও লেখক ।
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তিনি পিস টিভি, ইসলামিক টিভি, এটিএন ও এনটিভিসহ বিভিন্ন টিভিতে ইসলামের সমসাময়িক বিষয় নিয়ে আলোচনা করতেন। ফরেন টেলিভিশন চ্যানেল আইটিভি ইউএস-এর উপদেষ্টা ছিরেন তিনি । এছাড়াও তিনি দেশ-বিদেশের বিভিন্ন সিম্পোজিয়াম, সেমিনার, মসজিদের খুতবায় ও টিভি আলোচনায় খ্রিস্টান মিশনারিদের দ্বারা প্রতারিত হয়ে দেশের সহজ-সরল মুসলমানদের ধর্মান্তরিত হওয়ার বিষয়গুলো আলোচনা করে জনসচেতনতা তৈরি করে আসছিলেন।
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He was the father of the famous writer Sukumar Ray and grandfather of the renowned film-maker Satyajit Ray. Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury was a product and leading member of the Brahmo Movement that spearheaded the cultural rejuvenation of Bengal. As a writer he is best known for his collection of folklore; as a printer he pioneered in India in the art of engraving and was the first to attempt color printing at the time when engraving and color printing were also being pioneered in the West.
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সাইমুম সিরিজের লেখক আবুল আসাদ স্যারের সংক্ষিপ্ত জীবনীঃ
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His works such as the collection of poems Aboltabol (Bengali: আবোলতাবোল), novella HaJaBaRaLa (Bengali: হযবরল), short story collection Pagla Dashu (Bengali: পাগলা দাশু) and play Chalachittachanchari (Bengali: চলচিত্তচঞ্চরী) are considered nonsense masterpieces equal in stature to Alice in Wonderland, and are regarded as some of the greatest treasures of Bengali literature. More than 80 years after his death, Ray remains one of the most popular of children's writers in both West Bengal and Bangladesh.
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Supratim Sarkar
সুপ্রতিম সরকারের জন্ম কলকাতায়, ৩০ মে ১৯৭১। আশৈশব কৃতী ছাত্র। ছাত্রজীবন কেটেছে সেন্ট লরেন্স হাই স্কুলে। প্রেসিডেন্সি কলেজ থেকে অর্থনীতিতে প্রথম শ্রেণির স্নাতক। আনন্দবাজার পত্রিকায় স্বল্প দিনের সাংবাদিকতার পর ১৯৯৭ সালে যোগ দেন ইন্ডিয়ান পুলিশ সার্ভিসে। কর্মজীবনে রাজ্যের বিভিন্ন জেলায় এবং কলকাতায় নানা গুরুত্বপূর্ণ প্রশাসনিক দায়িত্ব সামলেছেন। বর্তমানে কলকাতা পুলিশে অতিরিক্ত কমিশনার পদে কর্মরত। কর্মক্ষেত্রে প্রশংসনীয় দক্ষতার জন্য ২০১৫-য় সম্মানিত হয়েছেন ভারতের রাষ্ট্রপতি প্রদত্ত ‘ইন্ডিয়ান পুলিশ মেডেল’-এ, ২০১৭-য় ভূষিত হয়েছেন পশ্চিমবঙ্গের মুখ্যমন্ত্রী প্রদত্ত বিশেষ সম্মানপদকে।পেশায় আই পি এস অফিসার, নেশায় আপাদমস্তক ক্রিকেটানুরাগী। লেখকের প্রথম প্রকাশিত বই ‘গোয়েন্দাপীঠ লালবাজার’।
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Joy Goswami
ভারতীয় কবি জয় গোস্বামী (ইংরেজি: Joy Goswami নভেম্বর ১০, ১৯৫৪) বাংলা ভাষার আধুনিক কবি এবং উত্তর-জীবনানন্দ পর্বের অন্যতম জনপ্রিয় বাঙালি কবি হিসাবে পরিগণিত।
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জয় গোস্বামীর জন্ম কলকাতা শহরে। ছোটবেলায় তাঁর পরিবার রানাঘাটে চলে আসে, তখন থেকেই স্থায়ী নিবাস সেখানে। পিতা রাজনীতি করতেন, তাঁর হাতেই জয় গোস্বামীর কবিতা লেখার হাতে খড়ি। ছয় বছর বয়সে তাঁর পিতার মৃত্যু হয়। মা শিক্ষকতা করে তাঁকে লালন পালন করেন।
জয় গোস্বামীর প্রথাগত লেখা পড়ার পরিসমাপ্তি ঘটে একাদশ শ্রেণীতে থাকার সময়। সাময়িকী ও সাহিত্য পত্রিকায় তিনি কবিতা লিখতেন। এভাবে অনেক দিন কাটার পর দেশ পত্রিকায় তাঁর কবিতা ছাপা হয়। এর পরপরই তাঁর খ্যাতি ছড়িয়ে পড়ে। কিছুদিন পরে তাঁর প্রথম কাব্য সংকলন ক্রিসমাস ও শীতের সনেটগুচ্ছ প্রকাশিত হয়। ১৯৮৯ সালে তিনি ঘুমিয়েছ, ঝাউপাতা কাব্যগ্রন্থের জন্য আন -
Suchitra Bhattacharya
Her writing focuses on contemporary social issues. She is a perceptive observer of the changing urban milieu and her writing closely examines the contemporary Bengali middle class. Crisis in human relationships and the changing values of the present era along with degeneration of the moral fibre of the society in the backdrop of globalisation and consumerism are depicted in her prose. Exploitations and sufferings of women regardless of their social or economic identities find a distinct voice in her writing. While she is famous for her writing on women's issues, she does not consider herself as a feminist. She took up many odd jobs in her early youth and finally joined the public service which she left in 2004 to become a fulltime writer. H
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Selim Al Deen
সেলিম আল দীন (Selim Al Deen) একজন প্রখ্যাত বাংলাদেশী নাট্যকার ও গবেষক। আধুনিক বাংলা শিল্প সাহিত্যর ইতিহাসে ধ্রুপদী ধারার অন্যতম শ্রেষ্ঠ নাট্যকার।
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Bani Basu
Bani Basu is a Bengali Indian author, essayist, critic and poet. She was educated at the well-known Scottish Church College and at the University of Calcutta.
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She began her career as a novelist with the publication of Janmabhoomi Matribhoomi. A prolific writer, her novels have been regularly published in Desh, the premier literary journal of Bengal. Her major works include Swet Patharer Thaala (The Marble Salver), Ekushe Paa (twenty One Steps), Maitreya Jataka (published as The Birth of the Maitreya by Stree), Gandharvi, Pancham Purush (The Fifth Man, or Fifth Generation?) and Ashtam Garbha (The Eighth Pregnancy). She was awarded the Tarashankar Award for Antarghaat (Treason), and the Ananda Purashkar for Maitreya Jataka. She is also the rec -
Kaushik Roy
Kaushik Roy is Reader in History at Jadavpur University, India and Global Fellow of the Peace Research Institute Oslo, Norway. He is the author of many articles and books, including Military Manpower, Armies and Warfare in South Asia (2013), The Army in British India (2012) and The Oxford Companion to Modern Warfare in India (2009). He is also the co-author of Armed Forces and Insurgents in Modern Asia (2016; with Sourish Saha) and the co-editor, along with Scott Gates, of War and State-Building in Afghanistan (2015).
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Sukanta Gangopadhyay
সুকান্ত গঙ্গোপাধ্যায়ের জন্ম ২১ জানুয়ারি ১৯৬১, হুগলির উত্তরপাড়ায়। পিতৃপুরুষ বিহারে প্রবাসী। মাতৃবংশ বাংলাদেশের দিনাজপুরে। স্কুল-কলেজের পাঠ উত্তরপাড়ায়। ফটোগ্রাফি নিয়ে পড়াশোনা করেছেন। একটি ফটোপ্রিন্টিং সংস্থার কারিগরি বিভাগের প্রধান। ছাত্রজীবনে লেখালিখির শুরু। দেশ পত্রিকায় প্রথম গল্প প্রকাশিত হওয়ার পর বৃহত্তর পাঠক মহলে সমাদর লাভ।শ্রেষ্ঠ উপন্যাস রচনার জন্য ১৯৯৯ ও ২০০২ আনন্দ-স্নোসেম শারদ অর্ঘ্য, শ্রেষ্ঠ উপন্যাস ও শ্রেষ্ঠ ছোটগল্প রচনার জন্য ২০০৩ সালে আনন্দ-ন্যাশানল ইনসিয়োরেন্স শারদ অর্ঘ্য এবং শ্রেষ্ঠ ছোটগল্প রচনার জন্য ২০০৬ সালে ডেটল-আনন্দবাজার শারদ অর্ঘ্য পেয়েছেন। এ ছাড়া ১৯৯৭-এ পেয়েছেন গল্পমেলা পুরস্কার, ২০০১-এ সাহিত্যসেতু পুরস্কার, ২০০৫-এ বাংলা আকাদেমি থেকে সুতপা রায়চৌধুরী স্মারক পুরস্কার, ২০০৭-এ শৈলজানন্দ জন্মশতবর্ষ স্মারক পুরস্কার, ২০১৩-এ তার
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Manindra Gupta
মণীন্দ্র গুপ্তর জন্ম ১৯২৬ সালে অবিভক্ত বাংলার বরিশালের গৈলা গ্রামে। কৈশোর কাটিয়েছেন অসমের বরাক উপত্যকায় মামার বাড়িতে। একই সঙ্গে কবি, প্রাবন্ধিক, কথাসাহিত্যিক ও চিত্রশিল্পী মণীন্দ্রবাবু দ্বিতীয় বিশ্বযুদ্ধে ব্রিটিশ ভারতীয় সেনাবাহিনীতে যোগ দেন।
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কবিতা লিখেছেন ১৯৪০-এর দশক থেকে। প্রথম কবিতার বই ‘নীল পাথরের আকাশ’ প্রকাশিত হয় অনেক পরে, ১৯৬৯ সালে। লিখতে এসেই পাঠকের নজর কাড়েন তিনি। বাংলা কবিতার তৎকালীন অভিমুখের সম্পূর্ণ বিপরীতেই অবস্থান করছিল তাঁর রচনা। এর পরে প্রকাশিত হয় ‘মৌপোকাদের গ্রাম’, ‘লাল স্কুলবাড়ি’, ‘ছত্রপলাশ চৈত্যে দিনশেষে’, ‘শরৎমেঘ ও কাশফুলের বন্ধু’ অত্যাদি কাব্যগ্রন্থ। ১৯৯১-এ বের হয় তাঁর আলোড়ন তোলা প্রবন্ধ গ্রন্থ ‘চাঁদের ওপিঠে’।
১৯৯১-এ প্রকাশিত হয় আত্মজীবনী ‘অক্ষয় মালবেরি’-র প্রথম খণ্ড। তিন খণ্ডে বিন্যস্ত এই লিখন বাংলা সাহিত্যের এক উল্ল -
Purushottam Agrawal
Purushottam Agrawal (Hindi:हिंदी पुरुषोत्तम अग्रवाल, born 25 June, 1955) is an Indian writer and academic.
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He was born and brought up in the city of Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. He has an MA (Political Science, 1977) from Jiwaji University, Gwalior and one in Hindi Literature, 1979 from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He was awarded a Ph.D degree by Jawaharlal Nehru University in 1985 on the topic of '‘The Social Meaning of Kabir’s Bhakti’' under the supervision of Namwar Singh.
His academic interests include Bhakti poetry and its social context (especially that of Kabir), indigenous (“vernacular”) modernity, non-violence and cultural & literary criticism.
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Alice Perrin
Alice Perrin was born in India in 1867, the daughter of Major General John Innes Robinson, of the Bengal Cavalry, and Bertha Beidermann Robinson. After her education in England, Perrin married Charles Perrin (d. 1931), an engineer in the India Public Works Department, in 1886, and the couple returned to India for the next sixteen years. Perrin’s career as a popular Anglo-Indian novelist and short story writer began with the two-volume novel Into Temptation, published in 1894. Her first collection of short stories, East of Suez, appeared in 1901. She continued publishing novels every two to three years until her last novel, Other Sheep, was published in 1932, two years before her death in Vevey, Switzerland, in 1934. In total, she published
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Pramathanath Bishi
Pramathanath Bishi (1901-1985), a writer and educationist, was born on 11 June 1901 at Joari in Rajshahi, the son of Nalininath Bishi and Sarojbasini Devi. He studied for seventeen years at Brahma Vidyalaya in santiniketan, where he became closely acquainted with rabindranath tagore. He passed the Matriculation (1919) from Santiniketan and took a break of several years before going on to complete the IA (1927) and BA with Honours in Englsih from rajshahi college (1929). He then took an MA in Bangla (1932) from Calcutta University, standing first class first. He carried on research on a ramtanu lahiri Research Fellowship (l933-36). He joined Ripon College (1936-46) and then Calcutta University (1950) as professor of Bangla. He was Rabindra P
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Kiran Atma
Kiran Atma was born a Hindu and has been a practicing Pagan and Witch since hitting puberty. Kiran continues to research, study, and analyze the history and contemporary practices associated with his faith and craft as seen worldwide while sharing the same with the wider community.
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Kiran's body of work hopes to help you broaden your awareness and deepen your understanding of these rich areas of knowledge, spirituality and cultural diversity that he has found so fascinating.
When not writing, Kiran loves to read, and spend time traveling and exploring works of art, literature, live theater, foreign cultures and cuisines, and classical and contemporary music performances around the globe. As a creative Artist, Kiran is actively involved in perf -
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Abadhut
অবধূত (১৯১০ - ১৩ এপ্রিল, ১৯৭৮) বা কালিকানন্দ অবধূত ছিলেন একজন বিশিষ্ট ভারতীয় বাঙালি ঔপন্যাসিক ও তন্ত্রসাধক। তাঁর প্রকৃতনাম দুলালচন্দ্র মুখোপাধ্যায়। জন্ম কলকাতার ভবানীপুরে। পুত্র অমল মুখোপাধ্যায়ের জন্মের পর প্রথমা স্ত্রীর মৃত্যু হলে উজ্জয়িনীর মহাকাল মন্দিরে সন্ন্যাস (অবধূত) গ্রহণ করেন। সন্ন্যাসজীবনে তাঁর নাম হয় কালিকানন্দ অবধূত। সন্ন্যাসজীবনে তাঁর ভৈরবী স্ত্রীও ছিল। হুগলি জেলার চুঁচুড়ায় স্বপ্রতিষ্ঠিত রুদ্রচণ্ডী মঠে তাঁর মৃত্যু হয়।
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অবধূত ছদ্মনামে তিনি একাধিক গ্রন্থ রচনা করেছিলেন। ১৯৫৪ সালে মরুতীর্থ হিংলাজ নামক উপন্যাস রচনা করে খ্যাতি অর্জন করেন। এই উপন্যাসটি অবলম্বনে একটি জনপ্রিয় চলচ্চিত্রও নির্মিত হয়, যার কেন্দ্রীয় চরিত্রে অভিনয় করেন বিকাশ রায় ও উত্তমকুমার। তাঁর অপর বিখ্যাত গ্রন্থ উদ্ধারণপুরের ঘাট (১৯৬০)। -
Annada Shankar Ray
Annada Shankar Ray was a Bengali poet and essayist.
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He was born in 1904 at Dhenkanal, Orissa. He graduated in English from Ravenshaw College. His father had shifted base from their ancestral village of Rameswarpur near Dhamnagar in Bhadrak of Orissa, following a family feud. His family roots go back to the 'Ghosh Mahashayas' who migrated to Rameswarpur from Kotarang near Howrah as a part of Todarmal's contingent during Akbar's reign.
He topped the list of Indian Civil Service examinees in 1927. He had failed to make the mark in the previous year being cut-off by one rank. It is said that he promised to his family and friends that if only one person was to be selected for ICS the next year, it would be himself, and he proved it. Incidentally h -
Sudhindranath Dutta
Sudhindranath Dutta (Bengali: সুধীন্দ্রনাথ দত্ত; 1901–1960) was a Bengali Indian post-modern poet, essayist, journalist and critic. He is one of the most influential five poets of the 20th century who introduced modernity to Bengali poetry.
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Sudhindranath is one of the most notable poets after the Tagore-era in Bengali literature. Born to renowned lawyer Hirendranath Dutta & Indumati Vasu Mallik (sister of Raja Subodh Chandra Vasu Mallik), he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. But however he failed to complete his degrees, and decided to prepare for attorneyship under his father. He completed that neither. He married Chhabi Basu in 1924.
He started publishing Parichay, a literary magazine which heralded his philosophy, in 1931 and carr -
Salimullah Khan
Salimullah Khan is a Bangladeshi writer, thinker, critic, and public intellectual. Regarded as an eminent thinker of Bangladesh, Khan explores national and international politics and culture using Marxist and Lacanian theories. Informed and influenced by Ahmed Sofa's thoughts, his exploration of Bangladesh's politics and culture has a significant following among the country's young generation of writers and thinkers.
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Khan translated the works of Plato, James Rennell, Charles Baudelaire, Frantz Fanon, Dorothee Sölle into Bengali. In Bangladesh, he is a regular guest in talk shows on national and international political issues.
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Shawkat Osman
Shawkat Osman (Bengali: শওকত ওসমান; Sheikh Azizur Rahman; 1917 – 1998) was a Bangladeshi novelist and short story writer.Osman's first prominent novel was Janani. Janani (Mother)is a portrait of the disintegration of a family because of the rural and urban divide. In Kritadaser Hasi (Laugh of a Slave), Osman explores the darkness of contemporary politics and reality of dictatorship.
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Awards
Bangla Academy Award (1962)
Adamjee Literary Award (1966)
President Award (1967)
Ekushey Padak (1983)
Mahbubullah Foundation Prize (1983)
Muktadhara Literary Award (1991)
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Harishankar Jaladas
Harishankar is a promising Bangladeshi author. The most significant point to notice is that all the four novels produced from Harishankar's pen sketch the life of the downtrodden, some of whom are from among fisherfolks, some from among prostitutes and some others are the 'harijons' or 'methors'.
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Ali Imam
Ali Imam (আলী ইমাম) is a Bangladeshi children's writer and audio-visual organizer. He written a lots of scientific story, travel story etc. for children.
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Imam has written more than 550 books, translated nearly 40. Child psychology, humanism and adventure is found in his writing. A simple style is available. Adventures, science fictions, stories related with historic events are the categories.
Ali Imam was the General Manager of Bangladesh Television and retired from the job in 2006. He is now hosting two popular TV Talk shows in private channels and more concentrating in his forthcoming books.He is Very Famous Familiar Face in Bangladesh about his Workings Experience. -
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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Troilokyanath Mukhopadhyay
Troilokyanath Mukhopadhyay, also known as T. N. Mukharji, was a remarkable person in British India. He worked as a curator at the Indian Museum in Calcutta, preserving India's cultural heritage. Beyond his museum work, Mukharji was a prolific writer in both English and Bengali.
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Trailokyanath, recognized as a pioneer in Bengali literature, left an indelible mark as a renowned writer. Among his notable works stands "Damru Charit", a collection of humorous and satirical short stories published posthumously in 1923.
Troilokyanath's creations continue to delight people from generation to generation.
ত্রৈলোক্যনাথ মুখোপাধ্যায় ছিলেন ব্রিটিশ ভারতের একজন উল্লেখযোগ্য ব্যক্তি। তিনি টি.এন. মুখার্জি নামেও পরিচিত ছিলেন। তিনি কলকাতায় অবস্থিত ইন্ডিয়ান মিউজিয়া -
Taradas Bandyopadhyay
Son of late legendary writer Bibhutibhusan Bandyopadhyay of 'Pather Panchali' fame, Taradas Bandyopadhyay had his schooling at the Ramakrishna Mission School, Rahara. Graduating from Maulana Azad College with Honours in English, he went on to do his post - graduation from the Calcutta University.He joined service with the West Bengal government and rose to the position of director in the Information and Cultural Affairs department, from where he took voluntary retirement. Despite his failing health, Bandyopadhyay found time to associate with cultural and social organisations and remained the honorary vice-president of the Indian Forum of Art and Culture. Taradas leaves behind a large number of short stories and two famous novels - তারানাথ
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