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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 surveillance of brahmanical regulations. The novel ...
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 ...
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 ...
Gitanjali ( Bengali: গীতাঞ্জলি, lit. ''Song offering'') is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, for its English translation, Song Offerings, making him the first non-European and the first Asian & the only Indian to receive this honour.
Na Hanyate ( transl. It Doesn't Die) is a novel written in 1974 in Bengali by Maitreyi Devi, an Indian poet and novelist who was the protégée of the great Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. [1] [2] The writer received Sahitya Akademi Award for this novel in 1976. [3] She wrote the novel in response to Romanian philosopher Mircea Eliade 's book La Nuit Bengali (titled Bengal Nights in English ...
The Kathamrita is regarded as a Bengali classic [1] and revered among the followers as a sacred scripture. [2] Its expurgated translation into English is entitled The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna (1942).
Romanisation of Bengali is the representation of written Bengali language in the Latin script. Various romanisation systems for Bengali are used, most of which do not perfectly represent Bengali pronunciation.
Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla (বাংলা, Bāṅlā, ⓘ), is an Indo-Aryan language from the Indo-European language family native to the Bengal region of South Asia.