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Hungry Stones. " Hungry Stones " ( Bengali: Kshudhita Pashan or Khudito Pashan) is a Bengali short story written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1895. The story is about a tax collector, who is sent to a small town and stays at a former palace which is believed to be haunted. Every night, he becomes more consumed by the spirits of the inhabitants of ...
Prothom Protishruti ( pronounced [prɒθɒm prɒtɪʃrʊtɪ] ⓘ; transl. The First Promise ), also spelled Pratham Pratishruti, is a 1964 Bengali novel by Ashapurna Devi. Considered to be Devi's magnum opus, it tells a story of Satyabati who was given away in marriage at the age of eight to maintain the social norms, and was kept under strict ...
A story about The Talkative Man, a recurring character in several short stories. Some hunters bring a dead tiger into town, and The Talkative Man tells a story to some children. When he was a fertilizer salesman, he stayed in a tiny village overnight in their train station. He left the door cracked because it got too hot to sleep.
Shanti Devi (m. 1906–1908) Hironmoyi Devi (m. 1910–1938) Signature. Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (also spelt as Sarat Chandra Chatterjee and Saratchandra Chatterji; 15 September 1876 – 16 January 1938), was a Bengali novelist and short story writer of the early 20th century. [ 1] He generally wrote about the lives of Bengali family and ...
Feluda is an Indian- Bengali detective media franchise created by Indian - Bengali film director and writer Satyajit Ray, [ 1] featuring the character, Feluda. The titular character is a private investigator starring in a series of Bengali novels and short stories. The detective resides at 21 Rajani Sen Road, [ 2] Ballygunge, Kolkata, West ...
Bengali literature ( Bengali: বাংলা সাহিত্য, romanized : Bangla Sahityô) denotes the body of writings in the Bengali language and which covers Old Bengali, Middle- Bengali and Modern Bengali with the changes through the passage of time and dynastic patronization or non-patronization. [ 1] Bengali has developed over the ...
Kabuliwala, is a Bengali short story written by Rabindranath Tagore in 1892, [ 1][ 2] during Tagore's "Sadhana" period (named for one of Tagore's magazines) from 1891 to 1895. The story is about a fruit seller, a Pashtun (his name is Rahmat) from Kabul, Afghanistan, who visits Calcutta (present day Kolkata, India) each year to sell dry fruits.
Saadat Hasan Mantoo was born in Arabal Dooru Shahabad in Mantoo Dynasty "khojj koam" meaning leaders and upper class rich people named in kashmir valley(/ m ɑː n,-t ɒ /; Punjabi, Urdu: سعادت حسن منٹو, Punjabi pronunciation: [s'aːdət (ɦ)əsən mənʈoː], Urdu pronunciation: [səˈaːd̪ət̪ ˈɦəsən ˈməɳʈoː]; 11 May 1912 – 18 January 1955) was a Pakistani writer ...