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Pippa Makers Apologise After Backlash Over Rahman's Rendition Of Bengali Poet's Song. Read Statement
"Our interpretation has hurt sentiments or caused unintended distress, we offer our sincere apologies," the statement read
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AR Rahman Faces Flak For Rendition Of Bengali Poet Nazrul Islam's Freedom Struggle Song
A controversy has erupted over AR Rahman's rendition of a popular song of legendary Bengali poet Kazi Nazrul Islam in a new Bollywood film, with the litterateur's family and common people expressing outrage over the "distortion" in rhythm and tunes.
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Declare Vidyasagar's Birth Anniversary As Teacher's Day: Bengali Outfit Urges Mamata Banerjee
The outfit claimed that the letter carried signatures of eminent Bengali personalities such as poet Joy Goswami, educationist Pabitra Sarkar, Indologist Nrisingha Prasad Bhaduri, singer Rupam Islam, Visva-Bharati's former vice chancellor Sabujkali Sen among others.
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Renowned Bengali Filmmaker-Poet Buddhadeb Dasgupta Dies At 77
"Through his works, he infused lyricism into the language of cinema," wrote Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for Buddhadeb Dasgupta
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Shankha Ghosh, Legendary Bengali Poet, Dies After Battling COVID-19
Shankha Ghosh, legendary Bengali poet and litterateur, died on Wednesday. An era in Bengali literature came to an end with the death Shankha Ghosh. He was suffering from COVID-19 for about a week
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"And Because I Love This Life, I Know I Shall Love Death As Well": Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore Death Anniversary: Tagore is one of those great masters of literature who works hardly left any human emotion untouched. The poet, novelist, essayist, philosopher and musician is being remembered on his death anniversary today. Tagore's death anniversary is known as 'Baishe Shrabon' (Shravan 22, in the Bengali calendar) in Benga...
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Bengali Poet Nabaneeta Dev Sen Dies At 81
Prominent Bengali author, poet, academic Nabaneeta Dev Sen died at her Kolkata home Thursday evening. She was 81 and is survived by two daughters. She had been unwell for some time before her death. Nabaneeta Dev Sen was the former wife of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen who has expressed deep shock at her passing.
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Google Doodle Celebrates Poet And Women's Rights Activist Kamini Roy
Today's Google Doodle celebrates the 155th birth anniversary of the first woman to graduate with honors in the history of India, who went on to advocate for the rights of all women -- Kamini Roy. She was a Bengali poet, educator, and activist.
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Mamata Banerjee's Photo Among "Famous Bengali Legends" Sparks Outrage On Social Media
A photograph of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alongside stalwarts of Bengal, including revolutionary hero Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Nobel laureate poet Rabindra Nath Tagore, on a giant flex at the heart of the city's information technology hub has created a stir among people on social media websites.
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Right-Wing Activists Heckle Bengali Poet At Assam Event, Videos Go Viral
Videos of noted Bengali poet Srijato Bandopadhya being heckled by suspected right-wing activists at an event in southern Assam's Silchar have gone viral on social messaging platform WhatsApp. A group of people is seen questioning Mr Bandopadhya angrily in the videos taken on Saturday evening.
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"Who Is This Liar?" Trinamool Leader Attacks Bengali Poet, A Padma Bhushan Awardee
The panchayat polls have pitted West Bengal's best known poet Shankha Ghosh against one of Trinamool's serial verbal offenders, Anubrata Mondal, someone Mamata Banerjee has praised in the past but in December publicly issued "a last warning" to after some outrageous comments by him. It is not known if Ms Banerjee has privately reprimanded him for a...
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Poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt's Statue Defaced In West Bengal
A life-size statue of Michael Madhusudan Dutt, a prominent Bengali poet during the 19th century Bengal renaissance, was found defaced in Raniganj of West Bengal's Purba Bardhaman district on Saturday, police and eye-witnesses said.
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Bengal Poet Faces Complaint Over Facebook Post Linked To Yogi Adityanath
An award-winning Bengali poet has been named in a police complaint for a poem he posted on Facebook.
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Bengali Poet Mandakranta Sen Returns Sahitya Akademi Award
Noted Bengali poet Mandakranta Sen on Tuesday returned her Sahitya Akademi Young Writers Special Award to protest against communal attacks in the country.
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Hillary says Happy New Year. In Bengali
Nobel Prize winning Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore has enriched humanity and made Bengalis around the world proud, said US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday, wishing the community "Shubho Nobo Borsho".
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Pippa Makers Apologise After Backlash Over Rahman's Rendition Of Bengali Poet's Song. Read Statement
"Our interpretation has hurt sentiments or caused unintended distress, we offer our sincere apologies," the statement read
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AR Rahman Faces Flak For Rendition Of Bengali Poet Nazrul Islam's Freedom Struggle Song
A controversy has erupted over AR Rahman's rendition of a popular song of legendary Bengali poet Kazi Nazrul Islam in a new Bollywood film, with the litterateur's family and common people expressing outrage over the "distortion" in rhythm and tunes.
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Declare Vidyasagar's Birth Anniversary As Teacher's Day: Bengali Outfit Urges Mamata Banerjee
The outfit claimed that the letter carried signatures of eminent Bengali personalities such as poet Joy Goswami, educationist Pabitra Sarkar, Indologist Nrisingha Prasad Bhaduri, singer Rupam Islam, Visva-Bharati's former vice chancellor Sabujkali Sen among others.
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Renowned Bengali Filmmaker-Poet Buddhadeb Dasgupta Dies At 77
"Through his works, he infused lyricism into the language of cinema," wrote Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for Buddhadeb Dasgupta
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Shankha Ghosh, Legendary Bengali Poet, Dies After Battling COVID-19
Shankha Ghosh, legendary Bengali poet and litterateur, died on Wednesday. An era in Bengali literature came to an end with the death Shankha Ghosh. He was suffering from COVID-19 for about a week
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"And Because I Love This Life, I Know I Shall Love Death As Well": Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore Death Anniversary: Tagore is one of those great masters of literature who works hardly left any human emotion untouched. The poet, novelist, essayist, philosopher and musician is being remembered on his death anniversary today. Tagore's death anniversary is known as 'Baishe Shrabon' (Shravan 22, in the Bengali calendar) in Benga...
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Bengali Poet Nabaneeta Dev Sen Dies At 81
Prominent Bengali author, poet, academic Nabaneeta Dev Sen died at her Kolkata home Thursday evening. She was 81 and is survived by two daughters. She had been unwell for some time before her death. Nabaneeta Dev Sen was the former wife of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen who has expressed deep shock at her passing.
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Google Doodle Celebrates Poet And Women's Rights Activist Kamini Roy
Today's Google Doodle celebrates the 155th birth anniversary of the first woman to graduate with honors in the history of India, who went on to advocate for the rights of all women -- Kamini Roy. She was a Bengali poet, educator, and activist.
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Mamata Banerjee's Photo Among "Famous Bengali Legends" Sparks Outrage On Social Media
A photograph of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alongside stalwarts of Bengal, including revolutionary hero Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and Nobel laureate poet Rabindra Nath Tagore, on a giant flex at the heart of the city's information technology hub has created a stir among people on social media websites.
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Right-Wing Activists Heckle Bengali Poet At Assam Event, Videos Go Viral
Videos of noted Bengali poet Srijato Bandopadhya being heckled by suspected right-wing activists at an event in southern Assam's Silchar have gone viral on social messaging platform WhatsApp. A group of people is seen questioning Mr Bandopadhya angrily in the videos taken on Saturday evening.
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"Who Is This Liar?" Trinamool Leader Attacks Bengali Poet, A Padma Bhushan Awardee
The panchayat polls have pitted West Bengal's best known poet Shankha Ghosh against one of Trinamool's serial verbal offenders, Anubrata Mondal, someone Mamata Banerjee has praised in the past but in December publicly issued "a last warning" to after some outrageous comments by him. It is not known if Ms Banerjee has privately reprimanded him for a...
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Poet Michael Madhusudan Dutt's Statue Defaced In West Bengal
A life-size statue of Michael Madhusudan Dutt, a prominent Bengali poet during the 19th century Bengal renaissance, was found defaced in Raniganj of West Bengal's Purba Bardhaman district on Saturday, police and eye-witnesses said.
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Bengal Poet Faces Complaint Over Facebook Post Linked To Yogi Adityanath
An award-winning Bengali poet has been named in a police complaint for a poem he posted on Facebook.
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Bengali Poet Mandakranta Sen Returns Sahitya Akademi Award
Noted Bengali poet Mandakranta Sen on Tuesday returned her Sahitya Akademi Young Writers Special Award to protest against communal attacks in the country.
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Hillary says Happy New Year. In Bengali
Nobel Prize winning Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore has enriched humanity and made Bengalis around the world proud, said US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday, wishing the community "Shubho Nobo Borsho".
