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Rabindranath Tagore: Greatest writer in modern Indian literature, Bengali poet, novelist, educator, and an early advocate of Independence for India. Tagaore won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. Two years later he was awarded the knighthood, but he surrendered it in 1919 as a protest against the Massacre of Amritsar, where British troops killed some 400 Indian demonstrators. Tagore's influence over Gandhi and the founders of modern India was enormous, but his reputation in the West as a mystic has perhaps mislead his Western readers to ignore his role as a reformer and critic of colonialism. more.....
Kazi Nazrul Islam was a Bengali poet, writer, musician, journalist and philosopher who is best known for pioneering works in Bengali expressing fierce rebellion against society, tradition, politics, injustice, intolerance and oppression. Popularly known as the Bidrohi Kobi – Rebel Poet – he is widely popular and revered in Bangladesh and India, and is commemorated as the "national poet" of Bangladesh. Nazrul would also condemn religious fundamentalism in Muslim and Hindu society and explore the lives of downtrodden masses in India. He would remain active in political organizations, literary, art and music societies. more...
Rabindranath Tagore
Kazi Najrul Islam
Zainul Abedin (1914-1976) an artist of exceptional talent and international repute. He played a pioneering role in the modern art movement in Bangladesh that began, by all accounts, with the setting up of the Government Institute of Arts and Crafts (now Institute of Fine Arts) in 1948 in Dhaka of which he was the founding principal. He was well known for his leadership qualities in organising artists and art activities in a place that had practically no recent history of institutional or professional art. It was through the efforts of Zainul Abedin and a few of his colleagues that a tradition of modern art took shape in Bangladesh just within a decade. For his artistic and visionary qualities the title of Shilpacharya has been bestowed on him. more.....
Hossain, Roquiah Sakhawat (1880-1932) litterateur, educationist, and social reformer, who played a pioneering role in awakening Muslim women, was born on 9 December 1880 into a landed family of Pairaband in rangpur. Zahiruddin Abu Ali Haider Saber was her father and Rahatunnesa Chowdhury, her mother. Her ancestors served in military and judiciary departments during the Mughal regime. Named Roquiah Khatun, she is commonly known as Begum Rokeya in Bangladesh. Her name became Roquiah Sakhawat Hossain after her marriage and in literary circles, she was known as Mrs RS Hossain. more....
Begum Rokeya
Shilpacharjya Zainul Abedin
Satyajit Ray is the most acknowledged Indian name in international film world and one of the greatest film makers of all time. Most of his films were made in Bengali but the universal humanitarian appeal of his movies touched cinegoers through out the world. Ray was born in 2nd May, 1921 in a distinguished family in north Calcutta. His grandfather Upendrakishore Roychoudhury was a famous children's story writer. He was a friend of Tagore and took Ray to Tagore at his childhood. His father Sukumar Roy was legendary Bengali writer, poet and was a celebrated cultural figure. Satyajit Ray's nickname was Manik and he was popular to many others by this name. Their family had a home cum press named U. Ray & Sons in Garpar, a place in north Calcutta. Ray's father was attacked with a dreaded disease - Kalajor - and died when Ray was just three. At the age of six their family business wound up and he moved to Bhawanipore in South Calcutta. He studied at Ballygunge Government High School. In 1936 he got admitted in Presidency College with major in Economics. He later regretted that this subject was not his line. He got attached to Western Classical music and sketching. After graduating from Presidency, more......
Pandit Ravi Shankar: The melodious strains of Ravi Shankar's sitar have carried Indian music across the seven seas. Ravi Shankar is now a world famous personality. His recitals in India and abroad draw huge crowds. Millions of fans gather to hear him. Films are being made about his life. Ravi Shankar had ridden the crest of popularity for over 30 years and this popularity shows no signs of abatement. This era in music could truly be called the Ravi Shankar era. He has contributed a golden page to the history of Indian classical music. more......
Pandit Ravi Shankar
Dr. Bhupen Hazarika is a stalwart in the annals of India's cultural heritage today. A multifaceted genius, he is a good poet, music composer, singer, actor, journalist, author and film-maker of the very highest repute. He is the only living pioneer of Assam's film industry in the Northeast, and has been therefore, rightly hailed as the uncrowned king of North-Eastern India's cultural world. more....
Satyajit Ray
Bhupen hazarika
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