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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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Latiful Islam Shibli

পয়লা বৈশাখের এক কাকডাকা ভোরে জন্ম নিয়েই দেখে, বাংলাদেশে চলছে মুক্তিযুদ্ধের প্রস্তুতি। ফুলছড়ি, বাহাদুরাবাদ ঘাটে পাকিস্তানি সেনাবাহিনির অবস্থানের ওপর যখন ইন্ডিয়ান মিগ থেকে বোমা ফেলা হচ্ছিল, তখন মুক্তিযোদ্ধা বাবার সঙ্গে বাঙ্কারে বসে শিশুটি বলছিল, 'আল্লাহ্, রক্ষা কর'—গল্পটি শিবলীর মায়ের কাছে শোনা। তখন যুদ্ধ না বুঝলেও নব্বইয়ের দশকের স্বৈরশাসনবিরোধী আন্দোলনের ভেতর দিয়েই তাঁর বেড়ে ওঠা। ইন্টারমিডিয়েটে পড়াকালেই স্বৈরশাসকের জেল জুলুম আর হুলিয়া মাথায় নিয়ে চলে আসেন নাটোর থেকে ঢাকায় । অভিনয়ের উপর এক বছরের ডিপ্লোমা কোর্স শেষে গ্রুপথিয়েটার নাট্যচক্রের সঙ্গে মঞ্চনাটকে কাজ করতে করতেই ধীরে ধীরে বিকশিত হতে থাকেন শিল্পের অন্যান্য মাধ্যমে।অভিভাবকদের রক্তচক্ষু উপেক্ষা করে একদল গানপাগল তরুণ ব্যান্ড সংগীতের মাধ্যমে বাংলা গানের ধারায় যে-পরিবর্তন এন

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Soumitra Chattopadhyay

Soumitra Chatterjee or Soumitra Chattopadhyay (in Bengali: সৌমিত্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়) is an Indian film and stage actor and poet. He is best known for his collaborations with film director Satyajit Ray, with whom he worked in fourteen films, and his constant comparison with the Bengali cinema screen idol Uttam Kumar, his contemporary leading man of the 1960s and 1970s.

Besides this, he is also a writer.

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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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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Hamida Mubasshera

হামিদা মুবাশ্বেরা বর্তমানে যুক্তরাষ্ট্রের টেম্পল বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় অর্থনীতিতে পিএইচডি করছেন। এর আগে মালয়শিয়ার আন্তর্জাতিক ইসলামি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (IIUM) থেকে ইসলামিক ফিনান্সে মাসটার্স করেছেন। ব্যাচেলর করেছেন ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়র ব্যবসায় প্রশাসন ইনস্টিটিউট (IBA) থেকে। প্রাতিষ্ঠানিক ভাবে ইসলাম নিয়ে পড়াশোনা করেছেন ইসলামিক অনলাইন বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় (IOU) থেকে, সেখানে ইসলামিক স্টাডিজে দ্বিতীয় ব্যাচেলর সম্পন্ন করেছেন। ব্যক্তিগত জীবনে তিনি এক কন্যা সন্তানের জননী।

হরেক রকমের বই পড়া ও লেখালেখি হামিদা মুবাশ্বেরার কাছে এক ধরনের নেশার মতো। বাবার আকস্মিক মৃত্যু তাকে জীবনের উদ্দেশ্য নিয়ে ভাবতে উৎসাহিত করে। কী হয় মৃত্যুর পর? এটা নিয়ে কোন ধর্ম কী বলে? কেন আমরা মুসলিম? অন্যান্য ধর্মের অনুসারীদের সাথে আমাদের পার্থক্য কোথায়? নিজের শিকড়, আত্মপরিচয় অনুসন্ধানের ব্যাক্তিগত যে

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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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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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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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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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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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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।

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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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Edwin A. Abbott

People best know British theologian and writer Edwin Abbott Abbott for his imaginative satirical novella Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884).

This English schoolmaster authored of the mathematical satire.

He was educated at the city of London school and at college of Saint John, Cambridge, where he as fellow took the highest honors in classics, mathematics, and theology. In 1862, he took orders. After holding masterships at school of king Edward, Birmingham, and at Clifton college, he succeeded G.F. Mortimer as headmaster of the City of London School in 1865 at the early age of 26 years. He was Hulsean lecturer in 1876.

He retired in 1889, and devoted himself to literary and theological pursuits. Liberal inclinations of Abbott

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Satyen Sen

সেন, সত্যেন (১৯০৭-১৯৮১) সাহিত্যিক, সাংবাদিক, রাজনীতিক। ১৯০৭ সালের ২৮ মে মুন্সিগঞ্জ জেলার টঙ্গিবাড়ি উপজেলার সোনারঙ গ্রামে তাঁর জন্ম। তাঁর পিতৃব্য ক্ষিতিমোহন সেন ছিলেন পশ্চিমবঙ্গের বিশ্বভারতী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের ভূতপূর্ব আচার্য।

সত্যেন সেন সোনারঙ হাইস্কুল থেকে এন্ট্রান্স পাস (১৯২৪) করে কলকাতা যান এবং সেখানকার একটি কলেজ থেকে এফ.এ ও বি.এ পাস করে কলকাতা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ে এমএ (ইতিহাস) শ্রেণীতে ভর্তি হন। কিন্তু যুগান্তর দলের সদস্য হিসেবে সন্ত্রাসবাদী রাজনীতির সঙ্গে সম্পৃক্ত থাকার কারণে তিনি ১৯৩১ সালে গ্রেফতার হয়ে কারাবরণ করেন এবং জেলে থেকেই বাংলা সাহিত্যে এম.এ পাস করেন। জেল থেকে মুক্তিলাভের (১৯৩৮) পর বিক্রমপুরে ফিরে তিনি কৃষক আন্দোলনে যোগ দেন এবং আমৃত্যু বামপন্থী আন্দোলনের সঙ্গে যুক্ত ছিলেন। এক পর্যায়ে তিনি বাংলাদেশের কমিউনিস্ট পার্টির নেতা নির্বাচিত

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Henry Ford

Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production. Although Ford did not invent the automobile or the assembly line, he developed and manufactured the first automobile that many middle class Americans could afford. In doing so, Ford converted the automobile from an expensive curiosity into a practical conveyance that would profoundly impact the landscape of the twentieth century. His introduction of the Model T automobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. As owner of the Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. He is credited with "Fordi

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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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Humayun Azad

Humayun Azad (Bangla: হুমায়ূন আজাদ) was a Bangladeshi author and scholar. He earned BA degree in Bengali language and literature from University of Dhaka. He obtained his PhD in linguistics from the University of Edinburgh in 1976. He later served as a faculty member of the department of Bengali language and literature at the University of Dhaka. His early career produced works on Bengali linguistics, notably syntax. He was regarded as a leading linguist of the Bangla language.

Towards the end of 1980s, he started to write newspaper column focusing on contemporary socio-political issues. Through his writings of 1990s, he established himself as a freethinker and appeared to be an agnostic. In his works, he openly criticized religious extremi

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Obayed Haq

ওবায়েদ হকের জন্ম ১৯৮৬ সালে। পড়াশোনা করেছেন চট্টগ্রাম বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ে। থাকেন কুমিল্লায়।
প্রকাশিত বইসমূহ-
উপন্যাস-
তেইল্যাচোরা (২০১৪)
নীল পাহাড় (২০১৫)
জলেশ্বরী (২০১৬)
কাঙালসংঘ (২০২১)
আড়কাঠি (২০২৪)
জল নেই পাথর (২০২৪)
উন্মাদ আশ্রম (২০২৫)
গল্প সংকলন-
একটি শাড়ি ও কামরাঙা বোমা (২০১৪)
নেপথ্যে নিমকহারাম (২০১৭)

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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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Mohammad Nazim Uddin

MOHAMMAD NAZIM UDDIN (Bengali: মোহাম্মদ নাজিম উদ্দিন) is a writer and Translator of more than 26 novels..His original works are NEMESIS, CONTRACT, NEXUS, CONFESSION,JAAL, 1952: nichok kono number noy, KARACHI, RABINDRANATH EKHANE KOKHONO KHETE ASENNI and KEU KEU KATHA RAKHE. These six Thriller novels are highly acclaimed by the readers.

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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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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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H. Rider Haggard

Sir Henry Rider Haggard, KBE was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and the creator of the Lost World literary genre. His stories, situated at the lighter end of the scale of Victorian literature, continue to be popular and influential. He was also involved in agricultural reform and improvement in the British Empire.

His breakout novel was King Solomon's Mines (1885), which was to be the first in a series telling of the multitudinous adventures of its protagonist, Allan Quatermain.

Haggard was made a Knight Bachelor in 1912 and a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1919. He stood unsuccessfully for Parliament as a Conservative candidate for the Eastern division of Norf

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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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Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (Bengali: শেখ মুজিবুর রহমান Shekh Mujibur Rôhman‎), (March 17, 1920 – August 15, 1975) was a Bengali politician and statesman who was the founding leader of the People's Republic of Bangladesh. He headed the Awami League and served as the first President of Bangladesh, and later as Prime Minister. He is popularly referred to as Sheikh Mujib (shortened as Mujib or Mujibur, not Rahman), with the honorary title of Bangabandhu (বঙ্গবন্ধু Bôngobondhu, "Friend of Bengal"), and widely revered in Bangladesh as the founding father of the nation. He was assassinated by a group of junior army officers on August 15, 1975, along with most of his family, while acting as President of Bangladesh.

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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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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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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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Motiur Rahman Rentu

মতিয়ুর রহমান রেন্টু বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধের একজন অংশগ্রহণকারী মুক্তিযোদ্ধা এবং বিতর্কিত লেখক। তিনি ১৯৭১ সালের মহান মুক্তিযুদ্ধে অকুতোভয়ে লড়াই করেছেন এবং দেশের স্বাধীনতার জন্য জীবন বাজি রেখেছেন। তাঁর মুক্তিযোদ্ধা হিসেবে অবদান স্বীকৃত, যা প্রমাণিত হয় সরকারি নথিপত্রে তাঁর নাম অন্তর্ভুক্তি এবং ভারত সরকারের দেওয়া বিরল সনদের মাধ্যমে।

রেন্টু গোপালগঞ্জের মুকসুদপুরের আব্দুল বারীর পুত্র ছিলেন। তিনি আনুমানিক ১৯৫৪ সালে জন্মগ্রহণ করেছিলেন। তিনি ১৯৮১ থেকে ১৯৯৭ সাল পর্যন্ত আওয়ামী লীগ সভানেত্রী শেখ হাসিনার সাথে ঘনিষ্ঠ কর্মসম্পর্ক বজায় রেখেছিলেন এবং তাঁর সহকারী হিসেবে কাজ করেছিলেন।

তাঁর সবচেয়ে বিখ্যাত ও বিতর্কিত রচনা "আমার ফাঁসি চাই", যা প্রথম ১৯৯৯ সালের মার্চ মাসে প্রকাশিত হয়। এই বইয়ের মাধ্যমে তিনি তৎকালীন আওয়ামী লীগ সরকার ও রাজনৈতিক নেতৃত্বে

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Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay

শীর্ষেন্দু মুখোপাধ্যায় একজন ভারতীয় বাঙালি সাহিত্যিক।

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।

তাঁর প্রথম গল্প জলতরঙ্গ শিরোনামে ১৯৫৯ খ্রিস্টাব্দে দেশ পত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত হয়। সাত বছর পরে সেই একই পত্রিকার পূজাবার্ষিকীতে তাঁর প্রথম

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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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Naseem Hijazi

Sharīf Husain (Urdu: شریف حسین), who used the pseudonym Nasīm Hijāzī (Urdu: نسیم حجازی, commonly transliterated as Naseem Hijazi, or Nasim Hijazi) was an Urdu writer famous for writing Islamic Historical fiction. Born in British India he settled in Lahore, Pakistan after independence. His novels based on Islamic history are considered one of a kind in Urdu literature.

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Faham Abdus Salam

লেখালেখির শুরু যায়যায়দিনে; প্রবাস পিঞ্জর ও স্বদেশ বিহঙ্গ শিরোনামের দুটো নিয়মিত কলাম লিখতেন। পড়াশোনা:কুমিল্লা ক্যাডেট কলেজ, ঢাকা বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়, ইউনিভার্সিটি অফ ওয়েস্টার্ন সিডনী ও অস্ট্রেলিয়ান ন্যাশনাল ইউনিভার্সিটি। মলিকিউলার থেরাপিউটিক্সে পিএইচডি, পোস্ট-ডকে স্টেম সেল রিসার্চ - এখন কাজ করছেন রেগুলেটরী সায়েন্সে । তার আগ্রহ: মনস্তত্ত্ব, ভাষা, রাজনীতি, বিজ্ঞান ও ধর্ম। ডকুমেন্টারী বানিয়েছেন ঢাকার ইতিহাস নিয়ে। ২০০৪ থেকে অস্ট্রেলিয়া প্রবাসী।

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Anthony Mascarenhas

Neville Anthony Mascarenhas (10 July 1928 – 3 December 1986) was a Pakistani journalist and author. His works include exposés on the brutality of Pakistan's military during the 1971 independence movement of Bangladesh, The Rape of Bangladesh (1972) and Bangladesh: A Legacy of Blood (1986).

Mascarenhas was born into a Goan Catholic family in Belgaum, and educated in Karachi.He and his wife Yvonne Mascarenhas together had five children. He died in 1986.

Mascarenhas was a journalist who was the assistant editor at The Morning News (Karachi).[3] After collecting information on the atrocities committed in Bangladesh, he realised he could not publish the story in Pakistan and contacted Harold Evans of The Sunday Times. Before the publication of his

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Shahidul Jahir

Shahidul Jahir (also spelled Zahir) was a Bangladeshi novelist and short story writer. He was reputed for extraordinary prose style and diciton and considered a genuine founder of post-modern fiction in Bangla literature.

Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1953 as Shahidul Huq, he joined the Bangladesh Civil Service in the Administrative cadre in 1981. In 2008, he was appointed as a Secretary in Charge of Ministry of CHT affairs to the Government of Bangladesh. A confirmed bachelor, he lived a quiet and a very simple life. Hardly he agreed for a formal interview for publication.

Shahidul Jahir was one of the most important contemporary writers in Bangladesh. He became interested in magic realism after reading Marquez's works. He was known to some

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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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Akhteruzzaman Elias

আখতারুজ্জামান ইলিয়াস ছিলেন একজন বাংলাদেশি ঔপন্যাসিক এবং ছোটগল্পকার। তিনি মাত্র দুটি উপন্যাস রচনা করলেও সমালোচকরা তাঁকে একজন শ্রেষ্ঠ বাঙালি ঔপন্যাসিক হিসেবেই বিবেচনা করেন। এই দুটি উপন্যাসের বাইরে ইলিয়াস মাত্র তেইশটি ছোটগল্প এবং বাইশটি প্রবন্ধ লিখেছেন। ইলিয়াস সমাজ, রাষ্ট্র এবং জনগণের একজন একাগ্র পর্যবেক্ষক ছিলেন। তিনি তাঁর লেখার চরিত্রগুলোকে বিভিন্ন সামাজিক শ্রেণি এবং অবস্থানের প্রতীক হিসেবে সুদক্ষভাবে রূপায়ন করতেন। লেখার সময় তিনি চেষ্টা করতেন ঐতিহাসিকভাবে নির্ভুল থাকতে, ফলে তিনি পাঠকের স্বাচ্ছন্দ্যের চেয়ে লেখার অন্তর্নিহিত গুরুত্বকেই বেশি প্রাধান্য দিয়েছেন সবসময়। ক্যান্সারে আক্রান্ত হয়ে অকালমৃত্যুর ফলে তাঁর সৃজনশীল জীবন খুব দীর্ঘা‌য়িত হতে পারেনি, কিন্তু তাঁর লেখাগুলো বাংলা সাহিত্যে ধ্রুপদী সৃষ্টি হিসেবে স্থান পেয়েছে।

Akhteruzzaman Elias

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Syed Shamsul Haque

Syed Shamsul Haque (Bangla: সৈয়দ শামসুল হক) was a Bangladeshi poet and writer. Haq lived alternately in Dhaka and London. He wrote poetry, fiction, plays - mostly in verse and essays. He, the youngest writer to be honored with Bangla Academy Award, achieved it at the age of 29. He was honored with Ekushey Podok in 1984.

(সব্যসাচী লেখক সৈয়দ শামসুল হক ১৯৩৫ সালের ২৭ ডিসেম্বর কুড়িগ্রামে জন্মেছিলেন। বর্ণাঢ্য লেখকজীবনের অধিকারী সৈয়দ হক। কবিতা, ছোটগল্প, উপন্যাস, কাব্যনাট্য, চলচ্চিত্রের চিত্রনাট্য, চলচ্চিত্রের গান – যা লিখেছেন সবকিছুতেই পেয়েছেন জনপ্রিয়তা, সাফল্য।

মাত্র ২৯ বছর বয়সে ১৯৬৪ সালে বাংলা একাডেমি পুরস্কার পান সৈয়দ হক। এখন পর্যন্ত বাংলা একাডেমি পুরস্কার পাওয়া সর্বকনিষ্ঠ লেখক তিনি।

সৈয়দ হকের লেখালেখির শুরু তাঁর শৈশবেই। ম্যাট্রিক পরীক্ষার আগে লি

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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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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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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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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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Ahmed Sofa

Ahmed Sofa (Bangla: আহমদ ছফা) was a well-known Bangladeshi philosopher, poet, novelist, writer, critic, translator. Sofa was renowned for his intellectual righteousness as well as his holistic approach to the understanding of social dynamics and international politics. His career as a writer began in the 1960s. He never married. On 28 July 2001, Ahmed Sofa died in a hospital in Dhaka. He was buried in Martyred Intellectuals' Graveyard.

Sofa helped establishing Bangladesh Lekhak Shibir (Bangladesh Writers' Camp) in 1970 to organize liberal writers in order to further the cause of the progressive movement.

Ahmed Sofa's outspoken personality and bold self-expression brought him into the limelight. He was never seen hankering after fame in a tri

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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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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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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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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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Jasim Uddin

Jasimuddin (Bangla: জসীম উদদীন; full name: Jasimuddin Mollah) was a Bengali poet, songwriter, prose writer, folklore collector and radio personality. He is commonly known in Bangladesh as Polli Kobi (The Rural Poet), for his faithful rendition of Bengali folklore in his works.

He obtained his BA degree in Bengali from the University of Calcutta in 1929 and his MA in 1931. From 1931 to 1937, Jasimuddin worked with Dinesh Chandra Sen as a collector of folk literature. Jasimuddin is one of the compilers of Purbo-Bongo Gitika (Ballads of East Bengal). He collected more than 10,000 folk songs, some of which has been included in his song compilations Jari Gaan and Murshida Gaan. He also wrote voluminously on the interpretation and philosophy of Be

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Siddique Salik

Brigadier-General Muhammad Siddique Salik (محمد صدیق سالک) was a Pakistani writer, a high profile military officer and public face of President General Zia-ul-Haq’s military government.
He was born in Manglia, a village in Kharian, District Gujrat, Punjab, British India. He graduated from Islamia College, Lahore earning a master’s degree in English literature and a diploma in International Relations. During his student days he edited college magazines Crescent and Faran.
Initially he taught English in Faisalabad and Mansehra but quit teaching after a few years and joined, as an assistant editor, Pak Jamhooriyat, an English weekly published by the Government of Pakistan. In 1964, he joined Pakistan army and was appointed in Inter Services Publ

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Munier Choudhury

Munier Chowdhury (Bangla: মুনীর চৌধুরী), born in 1925 at Manikganj, Dhaka, hailed from Noakhali, was a Bangladeshi educationist, playwright, literary critic and political dissident. He's the brother of Kabir Chowdhury.

Munier studied English literature for his Bachelors degree (with honors, 1946) and Masters (1947) at the Dhaka University. In 1954, he completed a second Masters degree, summa cum laude, in Bengali. In 1958, he obtained another Masters in Linguistics from Harvard University. He joined the Dhaka University in 1950 and taught both in English and Bengali language departments between 1950 and 1971. Students flocked to his class, many from other departments, as he lectured in his inimitable fashion on Mir Mosharraf Hossain, Bankim

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Imtiar Shamim

ইমতিয়ার শামীমের জন্ম ১৩ ফেব্রুয়ারি ১৯৬৫ সালে, সিরাজগঞ্জ জেলার উল্লাপাড়া উপজেলায়। রাজশাহী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় থেকে সমাজবিজ্ঞানে স্নাতক (সম্মান) ও স্নাতকোত্তর সম্পন্ন করেন। আজকের কাগজে সাংবাদিকতার মাধ্যমে কর্মজীবনের শুরু নব্বই দশকের গোড়াতে। তাঁর প্রথম উপন্যাস ‘ডানাকাটা হিমের ভেতর’ (১৯৯৬)-এর পান্ডুলিপি পড়ে আহমদ ছফা দৈনিক বাংলাবাজারে তাঁর নিয়মিত কলামে লিখেছিলেন, ‘একদম আলাদা, নতুন। আমাদের মতো বুড়োহাবড়া লেখকদের মধ্যে যা কস্মিনকালেও ছিল না।’

ইমতিয়ার শামীম ‘শীতের জ্যোৎস্নাজ্বলা বৃষ্টিরাতে’ গল্পগ্রন্থের জন্য প্রথম আলো বর্ষসেরা বইয়ের পুরস্কার (২০১৪), সাহিত্যে সামগ্রিক অবদানের জন্য ২০২০ সালে বাংলা একাডেমি পুরস্কারসহ দেশের প্রায় সকল প্রধান সাহিত্য পুরস্কার পেয়েছেন।

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Adwaita Mallabarman

Adwaita Mallabarman (Bengali: অদ্বৈত মল্লবর্মণ) (alternative spelling Advaita Mallabarmana) was a Bengali writer. He is mostly known for his novel Titash Ekti Nadir Naam (English: A River Called Titash) which was published in a monthly named Mohammadi five years after his death.

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Abdullah Ibn Mahmud

Born in Bangladesh, Abdullah Ibn Mahmud passed his childhood in Dubai, the UAE, the tourists' heaven. Returning to his home country, he passed his intermediate from Science department in 2011 from Notre Dame College, Dhaka. After that, he started his B.Sc. in the top-most engineering university of the country, BUET (Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology) in Electrical & Electronic Engineering (EEE). After obtaining B.Sc., he went on to pursue MBA in 2017 and finished the degree from the highest academic institution in the business line, IBA of Dhaka University.

He started his writing career during his undergrad life and earned huge popularity through his historical writings published in the Bangla version of the popular analyst

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Buddhadeb Guha

Buddhadeb Guha (Bengali: বুদ্ধদেব গুহ) is a popular Bengali fiction writer. He studied at the well-known St Xavier's College of the University of Calcutta.

His novels and short stories are characterized by their dreamy abstractness and romantic appeal. His essays reveal the soul of a true wanderer providing some of the most beautiful renditions of travel in Bengal. His love for forests and nature provide the background for many of his novels.

A highly successful chartered accountant by profession, and an accomplished musician, Guha is very urbane in his lifestyle. He was one of the first to create characters representing easy-going, upper middle-class modern Bengali families, whom readers could identify with, and that gave him instant popular

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Shahid Qadri

Shahid Quadri was a Bangladeshi poet and writer. For his poetry, he was awarded "Bangla Academy Literary Award" in 1973 and "Ekushey Padak" in 2011. Qadri is one of the prominent poets of post-1947 Bengali poetry, who brought a new angle to the Bangladeshi scene by introducing urbanism and a sense of modernity. His poetry is infused with patriotism, cosmopolitanism and universalism and in its treatment of nature and city life, it delves deep into the conflicts and the sense of alienation pervading modern life.

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Mir Mosharraf Hossain

Mir Mosharraf Hossain (Bangla: মীর মশাররফ হোসেন) was a Bengali language novelist, playwright and essayist in 19th century Bengal. He is principally known for his famous novel Bishad Sindhu. He is considered as the first novelist to emerge from the Muslim society of Bengal.

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Nirmalendu Goon

Nirmalendu Goon (Bengali: নির্মলেন্দু গুন) is one of the most popular Bangladeshi poets known for his accessible verse. He was born in Kashbon in Barhatta in Netrokona, Bangladesh.

His first book of poetry was published in 1970. Since then he has published forty five collections of poetry and twenty collections of prose. Part of the generation of poets of 1960s, Goon's poetry contains stinging criticism of the nouveau riche and a touching description of the contrasting fate of the masses. A love of freedom and faith in the human spirit also permeates many of his poems. An avowed Marxist, Goon has also written poems urging an upheaval of the poor against the rich. He also has written a number of poems on important personalities, including Rab

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Helal Hafiz

Helal Hafiz was a Bangladeshi poet. He is considered a true representative of poets of his generation having certain creative traits in an age when his nation and countries in the neighbourhood witnessed dramatic transitions particularly in the arena of politics. He won Bangla Academy Literary Award (2013).

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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।

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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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।
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

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Shoroli Shilon

সরলী শীলনের জন্ম ১৯৯৮ সালের ১২ মে। বঙ্গবন্ধু শেখ মুজিবুর রহমান বিজ্ঞান ও প্রযুক্তি বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের আইন বিভাগ থেকে স্নাতকোত্তর সম্পন্ন করেছেন। ভালবাসেন ছবি তুলতে, গান গাইতে, চিঠি লিখতে। দস্তয়েভস্কির গভীর অন্ধকারে, মার্কেজের জাদুকরী বাস্তবতায়, মুরাকামির অদ্ভুত গল্পে এবং এতগার কেরেটের সংক্ষিপ্ত অথচ গভীর কল্পনা দিয়ে শুরু তার সাহিত্য যাত্রা। তারকোভস্কির আলো-ছায়া, কিয়োরোস্তামির নিঃশব্দ স্বস্তি তাকে শিখিয়েছে জীবনের সূক্ষ্মতম সৌন্দর্য কিভাবে প্রতিফলিত হয় সাহিত্যে।

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Javed Rasin

Javed Rasin (Bengali: জাবেদ রাসিন) is a Bangladeshi poet & fiction writer. He was born in Mymensingh but has raised in Dhaka from childhood. Javed completed his graduation & post-graduation in law from the University of Dhaka. He likes the charm of prosody and playing with words which fits into poetry. Shunno Pother Opekkhay (শূন্য পথের অপেক্ষায়) was his maiden published poetry.

Also the world of fiction, especially thriller & horror fiction fascinated him and he started writing in this genre. His first published thriller fiction novel was Blackgate (ব্ল্যাকগেট), co-authored with Tarim Fuad. His other works are horror novel Tomisra (তমিস্রা) & conspiracy novel Circle (সার্কেল). He continued to produce poetry and to work on fiction novels.

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Shahrier Khan

জনপ্রিয় কার্টুন চরিত্র বেসিক আলীর জনক বিশিষ্ট কার্টুনিস্ট শাহরিয়ার খান। কার্টুনটির যাত্রা শুরু হয় ২০০৬ সালে। জাতীয় দৈনিক পত্রিকা প্রথম আলোর উপসম্পাদকীয় পাতায় নিয়মিত প্রকাশিত হয় এই কার্টুন। শুরু থেকেই কার্টুনটি পাঠকপ্রিয়তা পেয়ে আসছে। বেসিক আলী হলো বড় ছেলে। ‘আলী গ্রুপ অব ইন্ডাস্ট্রিজ’ এর মালিক, বিশিষ্ট ঋণখেলাপী ব্যবসায়ী তালিব আলীর বড় ছেলে। আলী পরিবারের অন্যান্য সদস্যরা হলো বেসিকের মা মলি আলী, যিনি একজন গৃহিণী, ছোট বোন নেচার আলী, যিনি মেডিক্যাল কলেজের শিক্ষার্থী, আর স্কুল ছাত্র ছোট ভাই ম্যাজিক আলী। এই পরিবারকে কেন্দ্র করে এই চরিত্রগুলোর জীবনের প্রতিফলনেই বেসিক আলী কার্টুন। পরিবার, প্রেম আর বন্ধুত্বের সম্পর্কের আবর্তে চলতে থাকা এ কার্টুনে আরো দুটি গুরুত্বপূর্ণ চরিত্র হলো বেসিকের অফিস সহকর্মী রিয়া হক এবং ঘনিষ্ঠ ও আত্মভোলা বন্ধু হিল্লোল। শাহরিয়ার

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Buddhadeva Bose

Buddhadeva Bose (also spelt Buddhadeb Bosu) (Bengali: বুদ্ধদেব বসু ) was a major Bengali writer of the 20th century. Frequently referred to as a poet, he was a versatile writer who wrote novels, short stories, plays and essays in addition to poetry. He was an influential critic and editor of his time. He is recognized as one of the five poets who moved to introduce modernity into Bengali poetry. It has been said that since Tagore, perhaps, there has been no greater talent in Bengali literature. His wife Protiva Bose was also a writer.

Buddhadeva Bose received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1967 for his verse play Tapaswi O Tarangini, received the Rabindra Puraskar in 1974 for Swagato Biday(poetry) and was honoured with a Padma Bhushan in 19

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Tarapada Roy

Tarapada Ray (Bengali: তারাপদ রায়) was a Bengali writer of poems, short stories, and essays. He is especially known for his satirical sense of humour. He was born on November 17, 1936 in Tangail, now in Bangladesh. He lived in Kolkata in the Indian state of West Bengal till his death on August 25, 2007.
He had his schooling in Bangladesh where he passed his matriculation from Bindubasini High English School. In 1951, he came to Calcutta to attend college. He studied Economics in Central Calcutta College (presently Maulana Azad College). For a time he taught in a school in Habra in North 24Parganas.
Apart from numerous short stories and essays (mostly satirical), he wrote many poems as well. His first collection of poems, "Tomar Pratima" was

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Annada Shankar Ray

Annada Shankar Ray was a Bengali poet and essayist.

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

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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.

Awards
Bangla Academy Award (1962)
Adamjee Literary Award (1966)
President Award (1967)
Ekushey Padak (1983)
Mahbubullah Foundation Prize (1983)
Muktadhara Literary Award (1991)
Independence Day Award (1997)

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Moinul Hussain Choudhury

Moinul Hossain Chowdhury (Bir Bikrom) [মে. জে. মইনুল হোসেন চৌধুরী (অব.)] was a distinguished Bangladesh Army officer and diplomat who played a significant role in the country's history. Born in Sylhet in 1943, he joined the Pakistan Army in 1962 and was commissioned in 1964. During the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971, Chowdhury revolted against the Pakistan Army and fought valiantly, commanding various units including the 1st and 2nd East Bengal Regiments. For his contributions, he was awarded the Bir Bikrom, one of Bangladesh's highest military honors.

In his military career post-independence, Chowdhury rose through the ranks, eventually becoming a Major General and serving as the Adjutant General of the Bangladesh Army. He held severa

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বিমল মিত্র | Bimal Mitra

Bimal Mitra (bengali: বিমল মিত্র) was a prominent Bengali writer who wrote several novels. Bimal Mitra was equally adept in writing in Bengali as well as in Hindi, and has more than one hundred novels and short stories to his credit. Many of Bimal Mitra's novels have been made into successful films. One of his most popular works, Shaheb Bibi Golam (January 1953) which was adapted into a hugely popular movie

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Shamsur Rahman

Shamsur Rahman (Bengali: শামসুর রাহমান) was a Bangladeshi poet, columnist and journalist. Rahman, who emerged in the latter half of the 20th century, wrote more than sixty books of poetry and is considered a key figure in Bengali literature. He was regarded the unofficial poet laureate of Bangladesh. Major themes in his poetry and writings include liberal humanism, human relations, romanticised rebellion of youth, the emergence of and consequent events in Bangladesh, and opposition to religious fundamentalism.

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Alauddin Al-Azad

Alauddin Al-Azad (Bangla: আলাউদ্দিন আল আজাদ) was a modern Bangladeshi author, novelist, and poet. He was a student of Bangla literature in Dhaka University. He received his PhD from London University in 1970 for his work 'Iswar Gupter Jeebon o Kabita' (ঈশ্বরগুপ্তের জীবন ও কবিতা).

Azad was born in Dhaka. He was a professor of Bangla literature. Also he was a first secretary of Bangladesh High Commission in Moskow.

He was honored with Bangla Academy Award (1965), UNESCO Award (1965), National Film Award (1977) and Ekushey Padak (1986).

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Mohit Kamal

মোহিত কামাল বাংলাদেশের একজন কথাসাহিত্যিক ও মনোশিক্ষাবিদ। শিশু সাহিত্য বিষয়ে অবদানের স্বীকৃতি স্বরূপ তিনি ১৪১৮ বঙ্গাব্দে শিশু একাডেমি প্রদত্ত অগ্রণী ব্যাংক শিশু একাডেমী শিশুসাহিত্য পুরস্কার এবং কথাসাহিত্যে অবদানের জন্য ২০১৮ সালে বাংলা একাডেমি সাহিত্য পুরস্কার লাভ করেন।

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Sanjib Chandra Chattopadhyay

Sanjib Chandra Chattopadhyay (Bengali: সঞ্জীবচন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায়) was a Bengali writer, poet and journalist. He was the elder brother of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

Sanjib Chandra was born to an orthodox Brahmin family at Kanthalpara, North 24 Parganas. He was educated at Hooghly Mohsin College founded by famous Bengali philanthropist Muhammad Mohsin and Presidency College, Calcutta. He was one of the first graduates of the University of Calcutta.

Sanjib Chandra is widely regarded 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 provided an inspiration for authors across India.

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Anisul Hoque

Anisul Hoque (Bangla: আনিসুল হক) is a Bangladeshi screenwriter, novelist, dramatist and journalist. He graduated from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, trained as a civil engineer.

His inspiration in journalism and writing started during his student life. After his graduation he joined to serve as a government employee but resigned only after 15 days. Instead he started working as a journalist. He attended the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in 2010. Currently, Hoque is working as an Associate Editor of a Bengali language daily, Prothom Alo.

His novel মা was translated in English as Freedom's Mother. It was published in Maithili too. He was honored with Bangla Academy Award in 2011.

Also: আনিসুল হক

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Gajendrakumar Mitra

Gajendra Kumar Mitra was born on 11 November 1908. He was a versatile writer. He wrote many novels, short stories, plays, essays and poems. Mitra also translated a few English novels into Bengali, such as Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities . He used to write with his left hand. His genuine love and concern for Bengali literature inspired him to co-found the famous Mitra and Ghosh Publishers. Mitra was childless. He died on 16 October 1994 in Calcutta (now Kolkata).

Mr Mitra along with his friend Sumathanath Ghosh established Mitra & Ghosh Publishers on 9 March 1934.
Novels:
Kanta Prem
Pānchajanya
Rai Jāgo Rai Jāgo
Kolkatar Kāchei (Translated as A Stone's Throw from Kolkata)
Paush Phāguner Pālā
Upakanthe
Bahnibanyā
Rātrir Tapashyā
Pashaner Khuda

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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.
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

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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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Zahir Raihan

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