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Jibanananda
Jibanananda Das () (17 February 1899 – 22 October 1954) was an Indian poet, writer, novelist and essayist in the Bengali language. Popularly called "Rupashi Banglar Kabi'' ('Poet of Beautiful Bengal'), Das is the most read poet after Rabindranath Tagore and Kazi Nazrul Islam in Bangladesh and West Bengal. While not particularly well recognised during his lifetime, today Das is acknowledged as one of the greatest poets in the Bengali language. Born in Barisal to a Vaidya- Brahmo family, Das studied English literature at Presidency College, Kolkata and earned his MA from Calcutta University. He had a troubling career and suffered financial hardship throughout his life. He taught at many colleges but was never granted tenure. He settled in Kolkata after the partition of India. Das died on 22 October 1954, eight days after being hit by a tramcar. The witnesses said that though the tramcar whistled, he did not stop, and got struck. Some deem the accident as an attempt at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banalata Sen
Banalata Sen ( bn, বনলতা সেন) is a Bengali poem written in 1942 by the poet Jibanananda Das that is one of the most read, recited and discussed poems of Bengali literature. The title of this lyric poem is a female character referred to by name in the last line of each of its three stanzas. A draft of the poem was also discovered that widely differs from the final version. Poet Jibanananda Das was a quiet person, who preferred to live in obscurity. Until the discovery of his diaries in the mid-1990s, it was considered unlikely that he could have been in love with a woman, with or without the name of Banalata Sen. However, Banalata Sen of Natore, a tiny town in the Rajshahi area of what was then Bengal, has become an emblem of feminine mystery as well as beauty and love. Introductory notes "Banalata Sen" was composed by Jibanananda Das in 1934 when he was living in Calcutta, at a time in his life when he had lost his job of Assistant Lecturer at the City College, Kolk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banalata Sen (book)
''Banalata Sen'' ( bn, বনলতা সেন) is a poetry volume containing 31 poems by the Bengali poet Jibanananda Das (1899–1954). The volume reflects the contextual struggles experienced by the poet in terms of love (his partner, admiration of nature), liberty (World War I, patriotism in the form of admiring the land) and loss (death of loved ones and sense of direction after traumatic contortions) during the Post-Tagor period. This book has been named "Banalata Sen" after Das's most popular poem, which explored human fulfillment through the personification of a vaidya caste woman. This pattern of progressively exploring human fulfillment through hyperbolising a character is common within this volume. During Das's lifetime Banalata Sen was published during Poush 1349 of the Bengali calendar (1942 AD) and in Srabon 1359 Bengali calendar (1952 AD). There is a variation in the poems within the volume as the later version contains poems that were written from 1942 to 1946. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruposhi Bangla
''Ruposhi Bangla'' ( bn, রূপসী বাংলা, Beautiful Bengal) is the most popular collection of poems by Jibanananda Das, the great modern Bengali poet. Written in 1934, the sixty-two sonnets - discovered in an exercise-book twenty years after Das wrote them - achieved instant popularity on their posthumous publication in 1957, becoming a totemic symbol of freedom in Bangladesh's 1971 War of Independence. In ''Ruposhi Bangla,'' Das seamlessly blends in both real and mythical historical figures, as well as mythical creatures such as the ''shuk'' bird, weaving a tapestry of a beautiful, dreamlike Bengal The poems celebrate the beauty of Barishal. In these poems infused with a scent of unrequited love, Jibanananda Das captured his country's soul through evocations of village life and natural beauty. Satyajit Ray Satyajit Ray (; 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rupasi Bangla
''Ruposhi Bangla'' ( bn, রূপসী বাংলা, Beautiful Bengal) is the most popular collection of poems by Jibanananda Das Jibanananda Das () (17 February 1899 – 22 October 1954) was an Indian poet, writer, novelist and essayist in the Bengali language. Popularly called "Rupashi Banglar Kabi'' ('Poet of Beautiful Bengal'), Das is the most read poet after Rabindr ..., the great modern Bengali poet. Written in 1934, the sixty-two sonnets - discovered in an exercise-book twenty years after Das wrote them - achieved instant popularity on their posthumous publication in 1957, becoming a totemic symbol of freedom in Bangladesh's 1971 War of Independence. In ''Ruposhi Bangla,'' Das seamlessly blends in both real and mythical historical figures, as well as mythical creatures such as the ''shuk'' bird, weaving a tapestry of a beautiful, dreamlike Bengal The poems celebrate the beauty of Barishal. In these poems infused with a scent of unrequited love, Jibanananda Das cap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bodh (poem)
"Bodh" ( bn, বোধ, in Clinton B. Seely's English translation "Sensation" and Fakrul Alam's "An Overwhelming Sensation") is a celebrated Bengali poem written by Jibanananda Das in 1930. It was first published in the literary magazine ''Pragati'' in 1336 of Bengali calendar. The poem was later included in Jibanananda Das' poetry book ''Dhushor Pandulipi (The Grey Manuscript)'' published in 1936. Clinton B. Seely wrote that in "Sensation", Jibanananda gives his readers an account of the burden he bore, the creative process conceived of as a presence, a constant companion, and not always a welcomed one: Prof. Alam Alam is a masculine name derived from several ancient languages including : # Arabic: (''ʿĀlam'') meaning "world" or "universe" # Hebrew: cognate word is transcribed as '' Olam'', also meaning "World" # Tagalog: ''Alam'' means "Knowledge" ... opined that the poem is "about a man overwhelmed by the poetic fit and, indeed, consumed by it." Into the half light ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kusumkumari Das
Kusumkumari Das (1875–1948) was a Bengali poet, writer and social activist. She is known as a poet and mother of Jibanananda Das, the eminent poet of modern Bengali literature and also served as the secretary of Barishal Women Society. Biography She was educated at Calcutta Bethune School. At the age of 19, she was married to Satyananda Das in 1894 and bore him two sons (Jibanananda Das and Ashokananda Das) and a daughter (Sucharita Das). She inherited the habit of writing from her father, Chandranath Das. Her father used to write light verses. She published poems in several magazines, among them were ''Mukul'', ''Brahmabadi'' and ''Pravasii''. She used to keep journals regularly. But most of them could not found because they were either lost or damaged by herself. Her famous poem is "Adarsha Chele", in English, "the Exemplary Boy" or "the Ideal Boy". The first two lines of this poem gained legendary status: আমাদের দেশে হবে সেই ছেলে ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akashlina
"Akashlina" () is one of the most well-known poems written by Indian poet Jibanananda Das. It was composed in the late 1930s, and was first published in 1940 in a verse collection named ''Satti Tarar Timir''. Transliteration and translation {{Verse translation, lang=bn-Latn, Shuronjona, oi khane jeyo nako tumi, Bolonako kotha oi juboker sathe; Fire esho Shuronjona; Nokhhotrer rupali agun bhora rat-e; Fire esho ei mathe, dhew-e Fire esho hridoye amar; Dur theke dure- aro dure Juboker shathe tumi jeyo nako ar. Ki kotha tahar sathe? tar sathe! Akasher arale akashe Mrittikar moto tumi aj; Tar prem ghash hoye ashe. Shuronjona tomar hridoye aj ghash, tumar hridoy aj ghash; Batasher opare batash- Akasher opare akash. , Suranjana never go there, Talk not with that buffoon: Come back On this night of silvery star-fire. Come back to this field, to this wave; Come back to my heart; Don't go any more with that buffoon Further and yet more far. To him what the hell you talk, Sky beyond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campe (poem)
"Campe" ( bn, "ক্যাম্পে", /kæmpe/, en, "In Camp") is a Bengali poem by Jibanananda Das. It was first published in the literary magazine ''Paricay'' in 1932. The poem was later included in Jibanananda Das' poetry book '' Dhushor Pandulipi'' (The Grey Manuscript) published in 1936. The poem gave rise to controversy on publication. Das sent the poem to ''Paricay'' on the request of the poet Bishnu Dey, one of the editors of the magazine. Another editor, Sudhindranath Datta, deemed the poem incomprehensible and denied to publish it. Bishnu Dey, however, managed to get the poem published. After its publication, the literary critic Sajanikanta Das accused Das of obscenity. Most of controversies rose from Das’ use of the expression “''ghai harini''” which in English means “doe in heat”. “''Harini''” is a Bengali word intelligible to everyone; but “ghai”, an etymologically Assamese word, is used in Bengali by professional hunters to refer to a live de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Sahitya Akademi Award Winners For Bengali
Sahitya Akademi Award is given by the Sahitya Akademi, India's national academy of letters to one writer every year in each of the languages recognized by it as well as for translations. This is the second highest literary award of India, after Jnanpith Award. The awards given to Bengali writers for works in Bengali and English as well as for translations from Bengali literature are given below. Sahitya Akademi Award winners Following is the list of Akademi Award winners. No awards were conferred in 1960, 1968 and 1973. Sahitya Akademi Bal Sahitya Puraskar winners Sahitya Akademi Youth Award winners Bengali winners of Sahitya Akademi Award for English Translations from Bengali literature *1989 – Nagindas Parekh Nagindas Narandas Parekh (8 August 1903 – 19 January 1993) was a Gujarati language critic, editor and translator from India. He is also known by his pen name, Granthkeet (literally, bookworm). Life Nagindas Parekh was born on 8 August 1903 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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