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  2. Baul - Wikipedia

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    Dedicated to the memory of Professor Edward C. Dimock, Jr. who inspired generations of American and Bengali scholars with the poetry and philosophy of Baul songs. It is the culmination of Sally Grossman 's forty-plus year long interest in the Bauls and has been conceived, inspired, and generously supported by her with the advice and cooperation ...

  3. Tiruppavai - Wikipedia

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    The Tiruppavai (Tamil: திருப்பாவை, romanized: Tiruppāvai) is a set of Tamil Hindu hymns attributed to the female poet-saint Andal. [1] The Tiruppavai consists of thirty stanzas referred to as pasurams in praise of Perumal. [2] It is a part of the Nalayira Divya Prabandham, a collection of the works of the twelve poet-saints ...

  4. Music of Bengal - Wikipedia

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    The leading proponent of Bengali music is Rabindranath Tagore (known in Bengali as Robi Thakur and Gurudeb, the latter meaning "Respected Teacher" (in the Bengal of that time, the suffix 'deb' was an honorific, ascribed to people who enjoyed immense respect, but this title was primarily used by his students at Santiniketan, though many others ...

  5. Item number - Wikipedia

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    Item number. In Indian cinema, an item number or special song is a musical number inserted into a film that may or may not have any relevance to the plot. The term is commonly used within Indian films (Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Kannada, Punjabi, and Bengali cinema) to describe a catchy, upbeat, often provocative dance sequence for a song performed ...

  6. Rabindranath Tagore - Wikipedia

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    — Letter to Indira Devi. The youngest of 13 surviving children, Tagore (nicknamed "Rabi") was born on 7 May 1861 in the Jorasanko mansion in Calcutta, the son of Debendranath Tagore (1817–1905) and Sarada Devi (1830–1875). [b] Tagore and his wife Mrinalini Devi, 1883 Tagore was raised mostly by servants; his mother had died in his early childhood and his father travelled widely. The ...

  7. Bengali language - Wikipedia

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    The Bengali language is native to the region of Bengal, which comprises the present-day nation of Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal. Geographical distribution of the Bengali language in the world. Main language. Regional language. Overseas population of more than a million.

  8. Bengali alphabet - Wikipedia

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    In modern Bengali, the most common sibilant varies between / ʃ ~ ɕ / – originally represented by শ, but today, স and ষ in words are often pronounced as / ɕ ~ ʃ /. The other sibilant in Bengali is / s /, originally represented by স, but today, শ and ষ, in words, can sometimes be pronounced as / s /.

  9. List of multilingual Indian films - Wikipedia

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    Tadakha. Kishore Kumar Pardasani. Telugu. Telugu remake of Vettai, childhood scenes involving Nagendra Babu dubbed from Tamil original. 2014. Ajith. Mahesh Babu. Kannada. Kannada remake of Paiyaa, Scenes featuring Jasper and Daniel Annie Pope and scene with Tamannaah crossing road where gang members are with umbrella dubbed from Tamil original.