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Bengali language movement
The Bengali language movement (ভাষা আন্দোলন, Bhasha Andolon) was the 1948–1952 East Pakistan movement for Bengali as a state language, climaxed by the 21 February 1952 police killings in Dhaka and resolved by the 1956 constitution recognizing both Bangla and Urdu.
Bengali liberation war literature
Bengali liberation war literature (মুক্তিযুদ্ধভিত্তিক সাহিত্য) is fiction, poetry, drama, memoir, and essay written in Bangla about the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, in which East Pakistan became independent Bangladesh.
Bengali literary criticism
Bengali literary criticism (Bengali: সমালোচনা, shomalochona) is the analytical and evaluative study of literature written in Bengali, arising from the Bengal Renaissance through Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay's essays.
Bengali literature
Bengali literature (বাংলা সাহিত্য), writing in the Bengali language of Bangladesh and West Bengal, spans the Charyapada, medieval mangalkavya and Vaishnava padavali, and the modern era of Bankim and Tagore.
Bengali memoir
A Bengali memoir (স্মৃতিকথা, smritikatha) is a first-person Bengali prose narrative focused on specific periods, relationships, or themes, a tradition reaching back to Rassundari Devi's 1876 Amar Jiban.
Bengali modernism
Bengali modernism is the modernist movement in Bengali poetry, begun in the 1920s by the Kallol group, whose leading figures included Jibanananda Das and Buddhadeva Bose.
Bengali Muslims (বাঙালি মুসলমান)
Bengali Muslims (বাঙালি মুসলমান) are Bengali-speaking Muslims of Bengal, centered in Bangladesh (91% Muslim per the 2022 census) and West Bengal, historically shaped by the 1947 partition, the 1952 language movement, and the 1971 creation of Bangladesh.
Bengali novel
The Bengali novel (বাংলা উপন্যাস) is long prose fiction in the Bengali language that took shape in the nineteenth century, beginning with Bankim Chandra Chatterji's Durges-Nandini of 1865.
Bengali parody
Bengali parody (প্যারডি), also called lalika, imitates existing Bengali poems or songs with changed words for humor or criticism; Tagore and Nazrul are its most-parodied poets.
Bengali patriotic songs
Bengali patriotic songs (দেশাত্মবোধক গান, deshatmobodhok gan), also called swadeshi songs, are songs devoted to the country and its people, written by figures like Tagore and Nazrul and including the anthems of India and Bangladesh.
Bengali prose poem
The Bengali prose poem, or gadyakabita (গদ্যকবিতা), is a poem in unmetrical, prose-form language whose poetic effect comes from rhythm of diction and imagery rather than meter.
Bengali proverbs
Bengali proverbs (Bangla probad) are traditional figurative sayings of Bengal, rooted in rural life and still used in everyday conversation in Bangladesh and West Bengal.
Bengali radio drama
Bengali radio drama (বেতার নাটক, betar natak) is drama written and produced for radio in Bengali, beginning in 1927 and a leading form of Bengali entertainment before television reached the region.
Bengali rhymes
Bengali rhymes, called chhara (ছড়া) in Bengali, are short rhymed folk verses recited or sung to children in Bengal, possibly as old as the earliest Bengali literature.
Bengali riddles
Bengali riddles, called ধাঁধা (dhaṅdhā) and also heyali, are puzzle questions in Bengali folk literature, found since the Charyapada and traditionally told orally, largely by women.
Bengali short story
The Bengali short story (ছোটগল্প, chhotogalpo) is a brief prose narrative presenting a single slice of life, whose modern form began with Rabindranath Tagore's stories of the 1890s.
Bengali sketch writing
Bengali sketch writing, called naksha literature (নকশা সাহিত্য), is a nineteenth-century Bengali genre of satirical prose sketches of Calcutta life, whose landmark work, Hutom Pyanchar Naksha by Kaliprasanna Singha, was published in 1861.
Bengali social novel
The Bengali social novel (সামাজিক উপন্যাস) is a Bengali-language novel depicting the life, conflicts, and customs of contemporary society, the dominant tradition of Bengali literature, exemplified by Sarat Chandra's Grihadaha.
Bengali street theatre
Bengali street theatre, known as pathanatok (পথনাটক, road play), is drama performed in open public spaces rather than theaters, aiming at social awareness, protest, and opposing superstition.
Bengali translation literature
Bengali translation literature (অনুবাদ সাহিত্য, anubad sahitya) is Bengali writing that exists through translation in both directions, from medieval adaptations after the Turkic conquest to modern projects led by the Bangla Academy.
Bengali travel literature
Bengali travel literature, known as bhramankahini, is the body of travel writing in the Bengali language, popularized in the 1870s and 1880s after the Suez Canal opened in 1869.
Bengali travelogue
A Bengali travelogue (ভ্রমণসাহিত্য, brômon-shahitto, "travel literature") is a first-person account of a journey written in Bengali, running from eighteenth-century pilgrimage accounts to modern narratives.
Bengalis (বাঙালি)
Bengalis (বাঙালি) are the Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic people of the Bengal region, spanning Bangladesh, West Bengal, Tripura, and Assam, defined by the Bengali language; Muslim-majority in Bangladesh, Hindu-majority in West Bengal since the 1947 partition.
Bengaluru FC
Bengaluru FC, also known as Bengaluru Football Club, is a professional football club founded in Bengaluru, India, in 2013 by the JSW Group. It won the I-League in its debut season.
Bengaluru–Vijayawada Expressway
The Bengaluru–Vijayawada Expressway, also called the Bengaluru–Kadapa–Vijayawada Economic Corridor or BKV Expressway, is a six-lane access-controlled highway under construction linking Bengaluru in Karnataka with Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh.
Bengbu (蚌埠)
Bengbu (蚌埠) is a prefecture-level city in northern Anhui, China, on the middle Huai River, nicknamed the Pearl on the Huaihe River. Known for the Neolithic Shuangdun site, its 1912 railway hub origins, and Huai River flood and pollution challenges.
Benghazi (بنغازي)
Benghazi (بنغازي), Libya's second-largest city and principal city of Cyrenaica, founded as Greek Euesperides in the sixth century BC, later Berenice; joint capital 1951, 2011 uprising origin, now eastern Libya's de facto capital.
Benghazi Zoo
Benghazi Zoo (حديقة حيوان بنغازي) is a municipal zoo in Benghazi, Libya, founded in 1956 under Italian administration; it suffered looting and closure in the 2011 uprising and is being redeveloped as a 47-hectare park.
Bengie Molina
Bengie Molina (Benjamin Jose Molina, born 1974), Puerto Rican MLB catcher 1998-2010 with Angels, Blue Jays, Giants, Rangers; two Gold Gloves (2002-03), 2002 World Series title, brother of Yadier and Jose Molina.
Bengkulu (city)
Bengkulu (city), capital of Bengkulu Province, southwest Sumatra; former British settlement from 1685, home to Fort Marlborough (1714–1719); high seismic and tsunami exposure; port economy via Pulau Baai.