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Khandana Bhava–Bandhana, [a] Sri Ramakrishna Aratrikam, [1] or Sri Ramakrishna Arati [2] ("Breaker of this world’s chain"), [3] is a Bengali song composed by Hindu monk Swami Vivekananda. [4] [5] The song, dedicated to the 19th-century saint Ramakrishna, [6] was composed in 1898. [7] [8] Khandana Bhava-Bandhana is a prayer song based on Raga Mishra Kalyani, Tala Ferta (Choutal, Tintal ...
Ghosts are an important and integral part of the folklore of the socio-cultural fabric of the geographical and ethno-linguistic region of Bengal which presently consists of Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura. Bengali folktales and Bengali cultural identity are intertwined in such a way that ghosts depicted reflect the culture it sets in. [1] Fairy tales, both old and ...
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.
Bengali (বাংলা Bangla) is one of the Eastern Indo-Aryan languages, which evolved from Magadhi Prakrit, native to the eastern Indian subcontinent. [1] The core of Bengali vocabulary is thus etymologically of Magadhi Prakrit origin, with significant ancient borrowings from the older substrate language (s) of the region. However, in medieval times, more borrowings have occurred, from ...
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. Bengal has a recorded history of 1,400 years. [1] After the partition ...
The Baul ( Bengali: বাউল) are a group of mystic minstrels of mixed elements of Sufism and Vaishnavism from different parts of Bangladesh and the neighboring Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and Assam 's Barak Valley and Meghalaya. [1] [2] Bauls constitute both a syncretic religious sect of troubadours and a musical tradition. Bauls are a very heterogeneous group, with many sects ...
A Hindu wedding, also known as Vivaha ( Devanagari: विवाह; Vivaaha) ( pronunciation ⓘ ), [1] Marathi: Lagna (लग्न), Bengali: Bibaho (বিবাহ), Kalyanam ( Devanagari: कल्याणम्; Telugu: కళ్యాణం), Kannada script: ಮದುವೆ (Maduve), Tamil: திருமணம் (Tirumanam), or Pelli ( Telugu: పెళ్లి ), is the ...
Chitto Jetha Bhayshunyo " Where the mind is without fear " ( Bengali: চিত্ত যেথা ভয়শূন্য, romanized : Chitto Jetha Bhoyshunno) is a poem written by 1913 Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore before India's independence. It represents Tagore's vision of a new and awakened India. The original poem was published in 1910 and was included in the 1910 collection ...