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Benedikt Frey
Benedikt Frey is a German producer and DJ based in Berlin whose releases span labels like ESP Institute and Live At Robert Johnson, and who co-runs the imprints Lopasura, Serious Trouble, and R.i.O.
Benedikt Gröndal
Benedikt Gröndal, full name Benedikt Gröndal Sveinbjarnarson, was an Icelandic poet, philologist, and naturalist, a central figure of late nineteenth-century Icelandic culture best known for the satirical Sagan af Heljarslóðarorustu (1861).
Benedito Nunes
Benedito Nunes (1929–2011) was a Brazilian philosopher and literary critic from Belém, Pará, who read Clarice Lispector through Heidegger and won the 2010 Prêmio Machado de Assis.
Benee
Benee (BENEE), stage name of Stella Rose Bennett (born 2000, Auckland, New Zealand), is an alt-pop singer-songwriter. Known for the viral 2019 TikTok hit "Supalonely" with Gus Dapperton, EPs Fire on Marzz and Stella & Steve, debut album Hey u x (2020), and 2025 album Ur an Angel I'm Just Particles on Republic Records.
Benefit (album)
Benefit is Jethro Tull's third studio album, released April 1970 on Island Records (ILPS 9123). Recorded at Morgan Studios, it peaked at UK number 3, marked the band's shift from blues rock toward progressive folk rock, and was Glenn Cornick's last album with the band.
Benefits with Friends
Benefits with Friends (Amor da Minha Vida) is a Brazilian Disney+ romantic comedy series created by Matheus Souza, starring Bruna Marquezine and Sérgio Malheiros as best friends Bia and Victor; it premiered November 22, 2024 and reached Hulu February 12, 2025.
Beng ü Bade
Beng ü Bade (Bəngü-Badə) is an allegorical mathnawi of 444 couplets by the poet Fuzuli, written in Azerbaijani between 1510 and 1524, in which hashish and wine debate their superiority.
Benga
Benga is a British dubstep producer and DJ from Croydon, South London, a founding figure of the genre whose 2007 single 'Night' with Coki was dubstep's biggest seller.
Bengal famine of 1943
The Bengal famine of 1943 (পঞ্চাশের মন্বন্তর) was a famine in British India's Bengal province during World War II, killing an estimated 1.5 to 3 million people.
Bengal Patachitra
Bengal Patachitra (পটচিত্র) is a traditional scroll painting from West Bengal in which artists called Patuas unfurl painted scrolls while singing the stories shown on them.
Bengal School of Art
The Bengal School of Art was an early twentieth-century Indian movement founded in Calcutta by E. B. Havell and Abanindranath Tagore that rejected Western academic realism for a nationalist style.
Bengal Tiger (2015 film)
Bengal Tiger (బెంగాల్ టైగర్) is a 2015 Telugu action comedy directed and written by Sampath Nandi, starring Ravi Teja, Tamannaah Bhatia, Raashi Khanna, and Boman Irani; released 10 December 2015, music by Bheems Ceciroleo.
Bengali autobiography
A Bengali autobiography is a life narrative written in Bengali, as the full autobiography (ātmacarit, আত্মজীবনী) or the memoir (smṛtikathā), emerging as a distinct genre in the late nineteenth century.
Bengali ballads
Bengali ballads are narrative folk songs (gitika) of the Bengal region, telling stories of love, village life, and devotion, transmitted orally before being collected and printed in the early twentieth century.
Bengali biography
Bengali biography (jiboni, jibanchorit) is the Bengali-language genre of written accounts of individual lives, from medieval devotional lives of Chaitanya to secular life-writing in colonial Bengal.
Bengali blank verse
Bengali blank verse, known in Bengali as অমিত্রাক্ষর ছন্দ (amitrakshar chhanda), is an unrhymed Bengali meter introduced by Michael Madhusudan Dutt in 1860 and used in his epic Meghnad Badh Kavya.
Bengali book fairs
Bengali book fairs are the annual book fairs of the Bengali-speaking world, chiefly Kolkata's International Kolkata Book Fair, held since 1976, and Dhaka's Amar Ekushey Boi Mela.
Bengali children's literature
Bengali children's literature is writing for children in the Bengali language, begun in colonial Bengal in the early 1800s and continuing in Bangladesh and West Bengal.
Bengali cuisine
Bengali cuisine, also known as Bengali food or the Cuisine of Bengal, is the culinary tradition of the Bengal region, centered on rice, fish, and mustard oil.
Bengali detective fiction
Bengali detective fiction (Bangla goyenda kahini, বাংলা গোয়েন্দা কাহিনি) is the tradition of detective stories in Bengali, begun in colonial Calcutta and known for Byomkesh Bakshi and Feluda.
Bengali drama
Bengali drama, or Bangla natok (বাংলা নাটক), is theater in the Bengali language, blending the folk jatra tradition with a modern stage that arose in colonial Calcutta.
Bengali essay
The Bengali essay, known in Bengali as probondho, is a prose form built on argument and analysis, first established by Raja Rammohan Roy in the early 19th century.
Bengali farce
Bengali farce (প্রহসন, prahasana) is a comic dramatic genre of Bengali theater and print literature that flourished in 19th-century Calcutta, taking its name from Sanskrit drama.
Bengali folk drama
Bengali folk drama (Bengali: loko natyo) is traditional rural community theater of Bengal combining song, dance, dialogue, and ritual, with named forms including Gambhira, Alkap, and Chhau.
Bengali ghost story
A Bengali ghost story, or bhuter golpo (ভূতের গল্প), is Bengali-language fiction about ghosts and the supernatural, a written tradition since the late eighteenth century that includes tales by Rabindranath Tagore.
Bengali historical drama
Bengali historical drama is a tradition of Bengali-language stage plays on historical subjects that became the main vehicle of nationalist sentiment on the Calcutta stage in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Bengali historical novel
The Bengali historical novel (ঐতিহাসিক উপন্যাস, oitihashik uponyash) is a Bengali-language novel set in a past era, whose defining form came from Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay's Durgeshnandini (1865).
Bengali humour
Bengali humour (রঙ্গ-ব্যঙ্গ, rang-byanga) is the tradition of humor, satire, and wit in the Bengali language, spanning farce, satirical verse, nonsense poetry, and humor periodicals.
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.