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Bangladeshi English Literature
Bangladeshi English literature (BEL) refers to the body of literary work written in the English language in Bangladesh and the Bangladeshi diaspora. The historical background of interpolation of English in this region dates back to the British colonial period. English touched the land through the historical process—the historical process of British colonization over the land. However, the thought of creative writing in the colonizer's language inflames the idea that it is a deliberate choice by the native people who exploit—to emphasize more—the language in a way which exceeds the possibility of language to be used only as a communicative medium. Here the first question comes to the issue of taking up English as a medium of creative writing, in which Bankim and Michael Madhusudan underwent a deliberate trial to emerge as writers. The process of writing in English is ever-expanding and now uses a new term, "Bengali English Literature", rather than "Bangaladeshi English Literatu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Rule In India
The British Raj (; from Hindi ''rāj'': kingdom, realm, state, or empire) was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent; * * it is also called Crown rule in India, * * * * or Direct rule in India, * Quote: "Mill, who was himself employed by the British East India company from the age of seventeen until the British government assumed direct rule over India in 1858." * * and lasted from 1858 to 1947. * * The region under British control was commonly called India in contemporaneous usage and included areas directly administered by the United Kingdom, which were collectively called British India, and areas ruled by indigenous rulers, but under British paramountcy, called the princely states. The region was sometimes called the Indian Empire, though not officially. As ''India'', it was a founding member of the League of Nations, a participating nation in the Summer Olympics in 1900, 1920, 1928, 1932, and 1936, and a founding member of the United Nations in San ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Syed Najmuddin Hashim
Syed Najmuddin Hashim (1925-1999) was a Bangladeshi journalist, politician, and writer. Early life Hashim was born on 1 June 1925 in Dhaka, East Bengal, British Raj. In 1942, he graduated from St Gregory's High School and from Dhaka Intermediate College in 1944. In 1946 he graduated with a B.A. in English from Presidency College Calcutta. Career Hashim started his career as a journalist. From 1948 to 1962 he worked in Radio Pakistan including as Editor and Broadcaster. From 1962 to 1964 he worked in the Industrial Development Bank as the Chief Public Relations Officer. From 1966 to 1968 he was the Deputy Director of Bureau of National Research and Reconstruction. From 1968 to 1970, he was the First Secretary at the Pakistan Embassy in France. From 1970 to 1972, Hashim was the Executive Director of Pakistan Council. From 1974 to 1975 he served as the Managing Director of Bangladesh Film Development Corporation after which he was appointed Joint Secretary to the Ministry of Informat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nuzhat Amin Mannan , Punjabi linguist
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Nuzhat ( ar, نزهة, he, נוזהת, ur, نزہت) is an Arabic name. Notable people with Nuzhat as a given name *Nuzhat Husain, Indian pathologist *Nuzhat Katzav, Israeli politician *Nuzhat Parween, Indian cricketer *Nuzhat Pathan, Pakistani politician *Nuzhat Sadiq, Pakistani politician *Nuzhat Tasnia, Bangladeshi cricketer Notable people with Nuzhat as a surname *Shaista Nuzhat Shaista Nuzhat ( pa, (Shahmukhi)) (born 1960s) is a Punjabi poet, writer, linguist, and researcher on Punjabi language and literature. She is founder director of the Punjab Institute of Language, Art and Culture (PILAC) in Lahore. Biography ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feroz Ahmed-ud-din
Feroz or Firuz is a Persian name meaning 'victorious', derived from the middle Persian name Peroz or Piruz. Related names are Phiroze, Feroze, and Parviz. It may refer to: People (historical) * Peroz I (), Sasanian king of Iran * Peroz II (), Sasanian king of Iran * Piruz Khosrow (died 642), Persian aristocrat who murdered the Sasanian queen of Iran Boran * Abu Lu'lu'a Firuz (died 644), Persian slave who killed the second Islamic caliph Umar * Peroz III (636 – 679), son of Yazdegerd III, the last Sasanian king of Iran, who traveled to Tang dynasty China and became a general and governor * Firouz (), a wealthy Armenian Christian convert to Islam who held a high post in Yaghi-Siyan's Seljuk Turkish government. * Ruknuddin Firuz (), ruled the Delhi sultanate for a short time * Jalal ud din Firuz Khalji (), the first Indian ruler of the Delhi Sultanate and the founder of the Khalji dynasty * Shamsuddin Firoz Shah (), independent ruler of the Lakhnauti Kingdom * Firuz Shah Tughlaq ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaiser Haq
Kaiser Hamidul Haq (born 7 December 1950) is a Bangladeshi translator, critic and academic. Known for his translations from Bengali into English, Haq is a recipient of Bangla Academy Literary Award (2013) in the category of translation. He is a former professor of English at the University of Dhaka. In the liberation war of Bangladesh, he fought against Pakistani Army "as a freshly commissioned subaltern in command of a company". Education and career Haq passed SSC from St. Gregory the Great High School and HSC from Dhaka College. He then enrolled into the English Department of University of Dhaka for his BA and MA degrees. He immediately joined the faculty of the same university. After he received Commonwealth Scholarship he moved to England to complete his PhD from University of Warwick in 1981. He continued his research as a Senior Fulbright Scholar and Vilas Fellow at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. After he returned to Bangladesh, he joined the University of Dhak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farida Majid
Farida Majid (July 27, 1942 – September 28, 2021; ) was a Bangladeshi poet, translator, and academic. Part of the first generation of Bangladeshi writers producing English-language work, Majid was an influential member of the London literary scene in the 1970s, when she ran the independent Salamander press. She then spent two decades as a professor of language and culture in New York before returning to Bangladesh in her later years. Early life and education Farida Majid was born in 1942 in Kolkata, India. Her mother, Jochna, was the eldest daughter of the Bengali writer Golam Mostofa. Majid began writing at a young age, and her poet grandfather encouraged and guided her early work. She published her first poem at age 10 in a Bengali newspaper called ''The Age''. After completing grade school, she first attended Eden Mohila College, a women's college at the University of Dhaka, where she studied chemistry. However, after a year she met and married the American architect Robe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Razib Khan
Razib Khan (রাজীব খান ''Razyb Khan'') is a Bangladeshi-American writer in population genetics and consumer genomics. Life and education Khan was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh but moved to the United States at the age of five. His family is from the Comilla District of eastern Bangladesh. In kindergarten his teacher pronounced his name "Razib" and the name stuck. He grew up in Upstate New York and Eastern Oregon. Though brought up a Muslim, he was an atheist from an early age. At the University of Oregon, he completed his Bachelor of Science in biochemistry in 2000, and completed his Bachelor of Science in biology in 2006. Razib also did graduate work at the University of California at Davis.The Bioinformatics CRO Podcast', 2020 During the early 2000s Khan initially worked as a software engineer, but received funding from Ron Unz and switched his focus to science. Research and publications In 2002, Khan co-founded a blog called ''Gene Expression'' which discussed tec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Song Offerings
''Song Offerings'' ( bn, গীতাঞ্জলি) is a volume of lyrics by Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, rendered into English by the poet himself, for which he was awarded the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature. Contents ''Song Offerings'' is often identified as the English rendering of ''Gitanjali'' ( bn, গীতাঞ্জলি), a volume of poetry by poet Rabindranath Thakur composed between 1904 and 1910 and published in 1910. However, in fact, ''Song Offerings'' anthologizes English translation of poems from his drama '' Achalayatan'' and nine other previously published volumes of Tagore poetry. The ten works, and the number of poems selected from each, are as follows: * ''Gitanjali'' - 69 poems (out of 157 poems in ''Song Offerings'') * '' Geetmalya'' - 17 poems * ''Naibadya'' - 16 poems * ''Kheya'' - 11 poems * ''Shishu'' - 3 poems * ''Chaitali'' - 1 poem * ''Smaran'' - 1 poem * ''Kalpana'' - 1 poem * ''Utsarga'' - 1 poem * ''Acholayatan'' - 1 poem ''Song Offer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toru Dutt
Toru Dutt ( bn, তরু দত্ত; 4 March 1856 – 30 August 1877) was an Indian Bengali translator and poet from British India, who wrote in English and French. She is among the founding figures of Indo-Anglian literature, alongside Henry Louis Vivian Derozio (1809–1831), Manmohan Ghose (1869–1924), and Sarojini Naidu (1879–1949). She is known for her volumes of poetry in English, ''A Sheaf Gleaned in French Fields'' (1877) and ''Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan'' (1882), and for a novel in French, ''Le Journal de Mademoiselle d'Arvers'' (1879). Her poems explore themes of loneliness, longing, patriotism and nostalgia. Dutt died at the age of 21. Biography Early life and education Toru Dutt was born in Calcutta on 4 March 1856 to a Bengali family, which had converted to Christianity. Her father was Govind Chandra Dutt and her mother was Kshetramoni Dutt (''née'' Mitter), of the Rambagan Dutt family. The Dutt family was one of the first Calcutta families t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Michael Madhusudan Dutt ((Bengali: মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্ত); (25 January 1824 – 29 June 1873) was a Bengali poet and playwright. He is considered one of the pioneers of Bengali literature. Early life Dutt was born in Sagardari Union, Sagardari, a village in Keshabpur Upazila, Jessore District of Bengal Presidency, Bengal, to a Hinduism in India, Hindu family. His family being reasonably well-off, Dutt received an education in the English language and additional tutorship in English at home. Rajnarayan had intended for this Western education to open the doors for a government position for his son. College and religious conversion After he finished his education in Sagordari at roughly the age of fifteen, Rajnarayan sent Madhusudhan to Kolkata, Calcutta to attend Presidency University, Kolkata, Hindu College with the eventual aim of becoming a barrister. At Hindu College, Michael studied under a Westernization, westernized curriculum in a uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
