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  2. Bengali vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Bengali is typically thought to have around 100,000 separate words, of which 16,000 (16%) are considered to be তদ্ভব tôdbhôbô, or Tadbhava (inherited Indo-Aryan vocabulary), 40,000 (40%) are তৎসম tôtśômô or Tatsama (words directly borrowed from Sanskrit), and borrowings from দেশী deśi, or "indigenous" words, which are at around 16,000 (16%) of the Bengali ...

  3. Education in Bangladesh - Wikipedia

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    Education in Bangladesh is administered by the country's Ministry of Education. [ 4] The Ministry of Primary and Mass Education implements policies for primary education and state-funded schools at a local level. [ 5] Education in Bangladesh is compulsory for all citizens until the end of grade eight. [ 6]

  4. Culture of Bengal - Wikipedia

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    Culture of Bengal. The culture of Bengal defines the cultural heritage of the Bengali people native to eastern regions of the Indian subcontinent, mainly what is today Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura, where they form the dominant ethnolinguistic group and the Bengali language is the official and primary language.

  5. Bengali language - Wikipedia

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    Bengali is the fourth fastest growing language in India, following Hindi in the first place, Kashmiri in the second place, and Meitei ( Manipuri ), along with Gujarati, in the third place, according to the 2011 census of India. [ 19] Bengali has developed over more than 1,300 years.

  6. Arthashastra - Wikipedia

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    Arthashastra Books 2.10, 6-7, 10 A notable structure of the treatise is that while all chapters are primarily prose, each transitions into a poetic verse towards its end, as a marker, a style that is found in many ancient Hindu Sanskrit texts where the changing poetic meter or style of writing is used as a syntax code to silently signal that the chapter or section is ending. All 150 chapters ...

  7. Ghosts in Bengali culture - Wikipedia

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    The word Gechho comes from the word Gaachh, which means tree in Bengali. Aleya / Atoshi Bhoot: Atoshi (or marsh ghost-light) is the name given to a strange phenomenon of light that happens near the marshes ( similar to the Will-o'-the-wisp), especially reported by the fishermen of West Bengal and Bangladesh. These so-called marsh lights often ...

  8. Sahaj Path (book) - Wikipedia

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    Sahaj Path ( Bengali: সহজ পাঠ) is a Bengali language learning book, written by Rabindranath Tagore. [1] In two of its edition this book describes the basics of Bengali language and literature. The first edition (প্রথম ভাগ) has the preliminary ideas of Bengali alphabet, their structures, pronunciation; while the ...

  9. Kolkata Book Fair - Wikipedia

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    It was the first time that it was held on the Milan Mela exhibition grounds. This year, for the first time, the Publishers and Booksellers' Guild released a Calcutta Book Fair Theme Song "Oi Daakchey Boi" produced by Cozmik Harmony - a partner of Washington Bangla Radio pioneering the digital era of Bengali