Kazi Nazrul Islam was a Bengali poet, writer, musician, and is the national poet of Bangladesh. Nazrul Islam is regarded as one of the greatest poets in Bengali literature. Popularly known as Nazrul, he produced a large body of poetry, music, messages, novels, stories, etc. with themes that included equality, justice, anti-imperialism, humanity, rebellion against oppression and religious devotion. Nazrul Islam's activism for political and social justice as well as writing a poem titled as "Bidrohī", meaning "the rebel" in Bengali, earned him the title of "Bidrohī Kôbi". His compositions form the avant-garde music genre of Nazrul Gīti.
Pohela Boishakh, is the first day of the Bengali calendar which is also the inspiration for official calendar of Bangladesh. This festival is celebrated on 14 April in Bangladesh and 15 April in the India in states of West Bengal, Tripura, Jharkhand and Assam by Bengalis regardless of religious faith.
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, commonly known as Begum Rokeya, was a prominent Bengali feminist thinker, writer, educator, professor, teacher and women empowerment and political activist for Muslim girls from East Bengal, undivided Bengal in present-day Bangladesh.
Begum Sufia Kamal was a Bangladeshi poet, feminist leader, and political activist. She took part in the Bengali nationalist movement of the 1950s and civil society leader in independent Bangladesh. She led feminist activism and was a president of Bangladesh Mahila Parishad. She died in 1999 and was the first woman to be given a state funeral in Bangladesh.
Chakraborty is a surname of Bengali Hindus and Assamese Hindus of India and Bangladesh, the surname is used by people of the Bengali Brahmin and Assamese Brahmin communities.
Bengalis, also rendered as Bangalee or the Bengali people, are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the Bengal region of South Asia. The current population is divided between the independent country Bangladesh and the Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura, Barak Valley, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Jharkhand and part of Meghalaya and Manipur. Most of them speak Bengali, a language from the Indo-Aryan language family.
Sangbad Pratidin is a daily Indian Bengali newspaper simultaneously published from Kolkata, Barjora and Siliguri. It was founded by Swapan Sadhan Bose, the owner and also All India Trinamool Congress representative at the Rajya Sabha, on 9 August 1992. The Editor-in-Chief is Srinjoy Bose.
Syed Ali Ahsan was a Bangladeshi poet, writer and university academic. He was awarded Ekushey Padak (1982) and Independence Day Award (1987) by the Government of Bangladesh. In 1987, he was selected as the National Professor of Bangladesh. He was credited as the official English translator of the National Anthem of Bangladesh.
Syed Farrukh Ahmad, later simply known as Farrukh Ahmad, was a Bangladeshi poet and author. He is commonly known as the poet of the Muslim renaissance, as many of his poems embody the spirit of resurrection in the hearts of the colonised Muslims of Bengal. Other than being a distinguished bearer of Islamic thought in modern Bengal, his poetry is also significant for its diction and literary value. The transition from romanticism to modernism is evident in his poetry and he is best known for his magnum opus, Sat Sagorer Majhi.
The culture of West Bengal is an Indian culture which has its roots in Bengali literature, music, fine arts, drama and cinema. Different geographic regions of West Bengal have subtle as well as more pronounced variations between each other, with Darjeeling Himalayan hill region and Duars showing particularly different socio-cultural aspects.
Ekramuddin Ahmad was a Bengali government officer and litterateur. He was known for his support of the Santal people during his government service and his literary criticisms after retirement.
Akshay Chandra Sarkar was a poet, an editor and a literary critic of Bengali literature. He was an editor weekly Sadharani (1874).
Bengali, generally known by its endonym Bangla, is an Indo-Aryan language native to the Bengal region of South Asia. With approximately 300 million native speakers and another 40 million as second language speakers, Bengali is the sixth most spoken native language and the seventh most spoken language by the total number of speakers in the world. Bengali is the fifth most spoken Indo-European language.
Shanibarer Chithi was a monthly Bengali literary magazine published by Shaniranjan Press in Kolkata, India. It was founded in 1929 by Ashok Chattopadhyay as the conservative response to the progressive literary magazine Kallol which was founded a year ago. It started as a weekly. Later it became a monthly. The magazine was one of the major satirical publications in India. Sajanikanta Das joined the magazine from eleventh issue as the editor who made the magazine popular.
Bengali Muslims are adherents of Islam who ethnically, linguistically and genealogically identify as Bengalis. Comprising about two-thirds of the global Bengali population, they are the second-largest ethnic group among Muslims after Arabs. Bengali Muslims make up the majority of Bangladesh's citizens, and are the largest minority in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and Assam.
Nagendranath Basu was an archaeologist, encyclopaedist and a nationalist social historian of Bengal.
Mahmuda Khatun Siddiqua was a Bangladeshi poet, essayist, and a pioneering women's liberation activist. She was awarded Ekushey Padak in 1977 by the Government of Bangladesh.
Panchali is an oral narrative form of songs and stories in Assamese and Bengali culture.(panchali gaan collectively refers to the Bengali ballad songs) During a panchali recitation, the singer walks among the listeners making gestures to accompany the story. The tradition is found among both Hindu and Muslim communities. The themes are typically religious and reflect a variety of impacts on the culture through a period of several centuries. Some focus on the duties of a good wife.
Abdul Haque was a Bangladeshi essayist, journalist and writer. He served as a deputy director of the Bangla Academy, a government-funded regulatory institution. He was posthumously awarded an Ekushey Padak in language and literature in 2011.
The Muslim Bharat was a historic literary journal that published from Kolkata in the early 20th century. It published works by notable Bengali authors and poets; such as Abanindranath Tagore, Kalidas Roy, Kaikobad, Qazi Imdadul Haq, Kazi Abdul Wadud, Kumud Ranjan Mullick, Mohitlal Majumdar, Mohammad Barkatullah, Satyendranath Dutta, Sheikh Fazlul Karim, and Syed Emdad Ali.
