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Koni (novel)
''Koni'' is a Bengali novel written by Moti Nandi Moti Nandi; 10 July 1931 – 3 January 2010) was a Bengali writer and journalist. Career Moti Nandi was from Kolkata. He graduated from the University of Calcutta and became a sports journalist and worked as a sports editor in ''Anandabazar Patr .... Plot One day Khitish Sinha saw a young girl named Koni swimming in the river. Sinha was an experienced swimming coach so he decided to train Koni for a swimming competition. Koni was not financially stable enough to manage coaching fees. In fact, her elder brother was a tuberculosis patient, earning only Rs.150 a month - the sole earner of a seven-member family. However, when he dies, the family falls into a very grave financial crisis. Then Sinha decided to give Koni a small job in his wife's trailer shop named Prajapati. Khitish takes complete responsibility for Koni's training, Koni worked hard and made it into the Bengal national swimming team. She was not given chance to co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations average to between 73–55 ka.", "Modern human beings—''Homo sapiens''—originated in Africa. Then, int ... [...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] |
Novel
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moti Nandi
Moti Nandi; 10 July 1931 – 3 January 2010) was a Bengali writer and journalist. Career Moti Nandi was from Kolkata. He graduated from the University of Calcutta and became a sports journalist and worked as a sports editor in ''Anandabazar Patrika''. He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement award (2008) at a ceremony to mark the grand finale of the maiden edition of the Excellence in Journalism Awards. His first short story was published in '' Desh'' weekly in 1957. His story for Pujabarshiki was in ''Parichoy'' Magazine in 1985. The character ''Kalabati'' from his novels is popular among the younger audience. Bibliography Novels *''Shada Kham'' (Ananda Pub.) *''Ubhoyoto Sampurno'' (Ananda Pub.) *''Golap Bagan'' (Ananda Pub.) *''Chaya'' (Ananda Pub.) *''Chaya Soronite Rohini'' (Ananda Pub.) *''Jibonto'' (Ananda Pub.) *''Duti Tinti Ghor'' (Ananda Pub.) *''Ditio Innings er Por'' (Ananda Pub.) *''Duro Dristi'' (Ananda Pub.) *''Puber Janala'' (Ananda Pub.) *''Bonanider Bari'' (Ana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kony (film)
''Koni'' ( bn, কোনি; sometimes spells as ''Koney'' or ''Kony'') is a national award-winning Bengali movie released in 1984 directed by Saroj Dey, starring Soumitra Chatterjee and Sriparna Banerjee. This film is an adaptation of a Bengali novel by the same name written by Moti Nandi. The film is about a girl living in Calcutta slums, who with the help of her coach triumphs over poverty and hardships. The film's lead Sriparna Banerjee was also a professional swimmer herself in the 1970s and at the time of casting a student of Jadavpur University. In a 2012 interview, veteran actor, Soumitra Chatterjee, called Koni one of the best films of his career. He even recalled using film's catch-phrase "Fight-Koni-fight" in hard times, as a chant to himself to lift his "aging spirits". The phrase had become popular with middle-class Bengalis at the time. Synopsis ''Koni'' is an inspirational story of a coach and his trainee Koni who fight all odds to achieve their aims. Khidda (S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
