Bijoya Ray (4 April 1921 – 2 June 2015) was the wife of the Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray. Their son Sandip Ray is also a film director. Bijoya and Satyajit were first cousins. After a long courtship,…
Anthony Horowitz, OBE is ranked alongside Enid Blyton and Mark A. Cooper as "The most original and best spy-kids authors of the century." (New York Times). Anthony has been writing since the age of ei…
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913 "because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own Eng…
Bimal Mitra (bengali: বিমল মিত্র) was a prominent Bengali writer who wrote several novels. Bimal Mitra was equally adept in writing in Bengali as well as in Hindi, and has more than one hundred novels…
Tapan Raychaudhuri (8 May 1926– 26 November 2014) was an Indian historian specialising in British Indian history, Indian economic history and the History of Bengal.
Manik Bandopadhyay (Bengali: মানিক বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়) was an Indian Bengali novelist and is considered one of the leading lights of modern Bangla fiction. During a short lifespan of forty-eight years, p…
Leela Majumdar (Bengali: লীলা মজুমদার Lila Mojumdar) was a Bengali writer. Her first story, Lakkhi chhele, was published in Sandesh in 1922. It was also illustrated by her. The children's magazine in …
রমাপদ চৌধুরীর জন্ম ২৮ ডিসেম্বর ১৯২২। কৈশোর কেটেছে রেল-শহর খড়গপুরে। শিক্ষা: প্রেসিডেন্সি কলেজ। ইংরেজি সাহিত্যে এম.এ.। গল্প-উপন্যাস ছাড়াও রয়েছে একাধিক প্রবন্ধের বই, স্মৃতিকথা এবং একটি অত্যাশ্চর্য ছড়…
Atin Bandyopadhyay (Bangla: অতীন বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়; anglicised spelling of surname: Banerjee) is a noted writer of Bengali literature. He was born in 1934 in Rainadi, Dhaka.
Samaresh Majumdar (Bangla: সমরেশ মজুমদার) was a well-known Bengali writer. He spent his childhood years in the tea gardens of Duars, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India. He was a student of the Jalpaiguri …
Zahir Raihan (Bangla: জহির রায়হান) was a Bangladeshi novelist, writer and filmmaker. He is perhaps best known for his documentary Stop Genocide made during the Bangladesh Liberation War.
Satyajit Ray (Bengali: সত্যজিৎ রায়) was an Indian filmmaker and author of Bengali fiction and regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of world cinema. Ray was born in the city of Calcutta into a Beng…
Ahmed Sofa (Bangla: আহমদ ছফা) was a well-known Bangladeshi philosopher, poet, novelist, writer, critic, translator. Sofa was renowned for his intellectual righteousness as well as his holistic approac…
স্মরণজিৎ চক্রবর্তীর জন্ম ১৯ জুন ১৯৭৬, কলকাতায়। বর্তমানে দক্ষিণ কলকাতার বাসিন্দা। পৈতৃক ব্যবসায় যুক্ত। প্রথম ছোটগল্প ‘উনিশ কুড়ি’-র প্রথম সংখ্যায় প্রকাশিত। প্রথম ধারাবাহিক ‘দেশ’ পত্রিকায় প্রকাশিত। শৈলজা…
Humayun Ahmed (Bengali: হুমায়ূন আহমেদ; 13 November 1948 – 19 July 2012) was a Bangladeshi author, dramatist, screenwriter, playwright and filmmaker. He was the most famous and popular author, dramati…
Akbar Ali Khan (Bengali: আকবর আলি খান) was a Bangladeshi economist and educationist who served as a bureaucrat until 2001. He was the SDO of Habiganj during the Bangladesh Liberation War, when he deci…
Paritosh Sen (Bengali: পরিতোষ সেন) was a leading Indian artist. He was born in Dhaka (then known as Dacca), the present-day capital of Bangladesh. He was a founder member of the Calcutta Group, an art…
Dr. Abhigyan Ganguly, born in 1990, holds a PhD degree in Nano-Electronics. He somehow still manages to take time out of his busy schedule to write a little and read a lot more. His first solo book "H…
