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Rupam Maxwell
Rupam Islam (born 25 January 1974) is an Indian Bengali singer, songwriter, music composer, writer and humanist. He is the lead vocalist of the popular Bengali Rock Band Fossils. He gained popularity mainly through his solo albums and his works as a member of Fossils. He has worked as a playback singer, music director, and lyricist in numerous Bengali films and has also lent his voice for Hindi and Telugu films. He has sung for various Bengali television soaps, web series, and advertisements. In 2010, he won the National Film Award for Best Male Playback Singer for his work in the Bengali film ''Mahanagar@Kolkata''. He is a member of the Bangla Sangeet Academy (Government of West Bengal). Early life Born on 25 January 1974 in a family of musicians, Rupam's musical journey started fairly early under the tutelage of his parents, renowned musicians of their time: late Nurul Islam and late Chhandiita Islam. By the age of four, he was performing on stage with his parents' cho ...
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Kolkata
Kolkata (, or , ; also known as Calcutta , the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary business, commercial, and financial hub of Eastern India and the main port of communication for North-East India. According to the 2011 Indian census, Kolkata is the seventh-most populous city in India, with a population of 45  lakh (4.5 million) residents within the city limits, and a population of over 1.41  crore (14.1 million) residents in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area. It is the third-most populous metropolitan area in India. In 2021, the Kolkata metropolitan area crossed 1.5 crore (15 million) registered voters. The Port of Kolkata is India's oldest operating port and its sole major riverine port. Kolkata is regarded as the cultural capital of India. Kolkata is the second largest Bengali-speaking city after Dhaka ...
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Playback Singer
A playback singer, also known as a ghost singer, is a singer whose singing is pre-recorded for use in films. Playback singers record songs for soundtracks, and actors or actresses lip-sync the songs for cameras; the actual singer does not appear on the screen. South Asia South Asian cinema, South Asian films produced in the Indian subcontinent frequently use this technique. A majority of Cinema of India, Indian films as well as Cinema of Pakistan, Pakistani films typically include six or seven songs. After ''Alam Ara'' (1931), the first Indian talkie film, for many years singers made dual recordings for a film, one during the shoot, and later in the recording studio, until 1952 or 1953. Popular playback singers in India enjoy the same status as popular actors and music directors and receive wide public admiration. Most of the playback singers are initially trained in classical music, but they later often expand their range. Mohammed Rafi and Ahmed Rushdi are regarded as two o ...
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Unish Kuri
Unish is a constructed language developed by a research team at Sejong University, South Korea. The term “Unish” is used in reference to it being cast as a universal language in the globalized era. The vocabulary of Unish is chosen from among 15 languages: Esperanto and 14 major languages that have 70 million or more native speakers or which were international languages in the past. Decisions are based on the three principles of commonality, short-word length, and simplicity. Consequently, the core vocabulary of Unish is integrated with the simplest words of existing major languages. To date, Unish has a vocabulary of approximately 10,000 words. Sejong University has also offered Unish classes for several years. Linguistic properties Classification Unish is a constructed language and not genealogically related to any particular ethnic language. The phonological and grammatical structures are based on those of pidgins. Typologically, in Unish, prepositions and adject ...
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Little Magazine Movement
The little magazine movement originated in the 1950s and 1960s in many Indian languages like Bengali, Tamil, Marathi, Hindi, Malayalam and Gujarati, in the early part of the 20th century. Little magazine movement in Marathi Little magazines of 1955 to 1975 The avant-garde modernist poetry burst upon the Marathi literary world with the poetry of B. S. Mardhekar in the mid-forties. The period 1955–1975 in Marathi literature is dominated by the little magazine movement. It ushered in modernism and the Dalit movement. In the mid-1950s, Dilip Chitre, Arun Kolatkar and their friends started a cyclostyled ''Shabda''. The little magazine movement began to spread like wildfire in 2017 with hundreds of ephemeral to relatively longer lasting magazines including ''Aso'', ''Vacha'', ''Lru'', ''Bharud'' and ''Rucha''. The movement brought forth a new generation of writers who were dissatisfied with the Marathi literary establishment which they saw as bourgeois, upper caste and orthodo ...
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Friends FM
ABP Pvt. Ltd. is an Indian media conglomerate headquartered in Kolkata, West Bengal. It was established in 1922. History The company in recent years did mass layoffs at various times. Current assets Newspapers * ''Anandabazar Patrika'' – Bengali-language daily newspaper * ''The Telegraph'' – English-language daily newspaper. Magazines * ''Anandamela'' * '' Sananda'' * '' Anandalok'' * '' Desh'' * ''Boier Desh'' * ''The Telegraph in Schools'' (TTIS) TV Channels News channels Entertainment channel References External links * Book publishing companies of India Newspaper companies of India Companies based in Kolkata Mass media companies established in 1922 Indian companies established in 1922 Television broadcasting companies of India Mass media companies of India Television networks in India Broadcasting Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typic ...
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Samik Roy Choudhury
Samik Roy Choudhury ( bn, শমিক রায় চৌধুরী) is an Indian Bengali filmmaker. Introduction Choudhury was born in the city of Calcutta into a Bengali middle-class family. Starting his career as a visual effects artist, he was drawn into independent filmmaking after making several short films. Among all his short Films Okiagari, ''Sex everywhere'', ''Vanichi Vani'' and ''Yesterday'' was mostly celebrated. His debut feature film ''D Major'' (2016) was written, directed and produced by him. ''D Major'' was honored at FOG film festival '16, Kolkata International Film Festival 2016, Indian world Film Festival 2018. He worked on '' Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian'' (2009), '' The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor'' (2008) and '' Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked'' (2011) and on many others as a visual effects technical director. Choudhury also directed the music video like ''Daniken'', ''Mukhosh, Stobdho Jibon, Janla, Sanghoti Jaanai'' and a ...
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Taki House, Govt Sponsored Multipurpose School For Boys
Government Sponsored Multipurpose School (GSMS) for Boys, Taki House is a school in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Its main campus is located in 299B Acharya Prafulla Chandra (APC) Road, Kolkata, started in the year 1965. About School The school has grades 1 to 12 and the language of instruction in the main campus is Bengali. However it has also recently opened an English Medium campus. Students take the 10+ (Madhyamik) examination under the West Bengal Board of Secondary Education and 12+ (Higher Secondary Examination) under the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education. See also * Education in India *List of schools in India *Education in West Bengal Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty ... References External links * Bengali Documentary on Taki House Bo ...
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University Of Calcutta
The University of Calcutta (informally known as Calcutta University; CU) is a Public university, public collegiate university, collegiate State university (India), state university in India, located in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Considered one of best university, state research university all over India every year, CU has topped among India's best universities several times. It has 151 affiliated undergraduate colleges and 16 institutes in Kolkata and nearby areas. It was established on 24 January 1857 and is the oldest multidisciplinary and European-style institution in Asia. Today, the university's jurisdiction is limited to a few districts of West Bengal, but at the time of establishment it had a catchment area, ranging from Lahore to Myanmar. Within India, it is recognized as a "Five-Star University" and accredited an "A+" grade by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). The University of Calcutta was awarded the status of "Centre with Potential for Exce ...
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Government Of West Bengal
The Government of West Bengal also known as the West Bengal Government, is the subnational government of the Indian state of West Bengal , created by the National Constitution as the state's legislative, executive and judicial authority. The State Governor acts as the head of state and is the highest nominal authority of the state power, however, it is the Chief Minister who is the chief executive authority and head of government. The Chief Minister is the head of government and is vested with most of the executive powers. Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal, houses the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. The temporary secretariat is located in the Nabanna building in the district of Howrah, adjacent to the state capital. The Calcutta High Court is located in Kolkata, which has jurisdiction over the whole of West Bengal and the Union Territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The present Legislative Assembly of West Bengal is unicameral, consisting of 294 Member of the Legi ...
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Mahanagar@Kolkata
''Mahanagar@Kolkata'' is a 2010 Bengali film directed by Suman Mukhopadhyay. The film is based on three stories of Nabarun Bhattacharya. The film was screened in Munich film festivals. Plot Director Suman Mukhopadhyay has strung three stories of Nabarun Bhattacharya ''Ek Tukro Nyloner Dori'', ''Amar Kono Bhoy Nei Toh'' and ''Angshik Chandragrahan'' to create this film. The story of the film revolves around the people and their life of Kolkata metropolitan city. The film explores the different worlds of Manmatha, Jagadish, Biren, Rohit, Rangili and Kamalini. Manmatha and Jagadish belong to different economic and social class. Biren is jobless. Rohit is an NRI, Rangili is wife of Rohit. Rohit has a relationship with Kamalini, another woman. Cast * Anjan Dutt as Manmatha * Sreelekha Mitra as Kamalini * Arun Mukherjee as Biren * Chandan Roy Sanyal as Rohit * Rituparna Sengupta as Rongili Awards 2009 National Film Awards * Won - Silver Lotus Award - Best Male Playback Singe ...
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National Film Award For Best Male Playback Singer
The following is a list of winners of the National Film Awards, National Film Award (Silver Lotus Award) for Best Male Playback singer. The award was first granted to Mahendra Kapoor in the year 1967. The singers whose performances have won awards have worked in nine major languages: Hindi (19 awards), Malayalam (9 awards), Bengali language, Bengali (7 awards), Tamil language, Tamil, Telugu language, Telugu, Marathi language, Marathi and Kannada (4 each), Punjabi language, Punjabi (1 award). The singer with the most awards in this category is K. J. Yesudas with eight wins for three languages (Malayalam, Telugu language, Telugu and Hindi), followed by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam who won six times for four languages;Telugu language, Telugu, Hindi, Kannada and Tamil language, Tamil. Udit Narayan and Shankar Mahadevan follow next winning three awards each. The singers Manna Dey, Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay, M. G. Sreekumar, Hariharan (singer), Hariharan have bagged this award twice. Mul ...
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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 ...
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