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Bidhubhushan Basu
Bidhubhushan Basu (1875-1972) was an Indian social worker, writer, and journalist working primarily in Bengali language, Bengali. Early life Basu was born on 27 May 1875 in Kanthal, Bagerhat District, Bengal Presidency, British India. He was raised by relatives after the death of his parents. Career Basu taught at Shivpur School, Calcutta where his students included Suniti Kumar Chatterji and Sushil Kumar De. His writings were published in the ''Sakha O Sathi'' magazine. He served as the editor of the ''Sanjibani'' and ''Pallichitra'' magazines. He was involved with the Swadeshi movement and wrote a number of nationalistic plays such as ''Dada'' in 1922 and ''Brahmacharini'' in 1925. Two of his plays, ''Mirkashim'' and ''Raktayajna'', were banned by the British Raj, British Colonial government. He was arrested and imprisoned for four years for his story "Shikar". He was imprisoned again for taking part in nationalist movements in India in 1930. He was sued for his poem "Vote Ranga" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bengali Language
Bengali ( ), generally known by its endonym Bangla (, ), is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language native to the Bengal region of South Asia. It is the official, national, and most widely spoken language of Bangladesh and the second most widely spoken of the 22 scheduled languages of India. With approximately 300 million native speakers and another 37 million as second language speakers, Bengali is the List of languages by number of native speakers, fifth most-spoken native language and the List of languages by total number of speakers, seventh most spoken language by total number of speakers in the world. Bengali is the fifth most spoken Indo-European language. Bengali is the official language, official and national language of Bangladesh, with 98% of Bangladeshis using Bengali as their first language. Within India, Bengali is the official language of the states of West Bengal, Tripura and the Barak Valley region of the state of Assam. It is also a second official lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
