Great Bangalees II

NOVELISTS

Pyari Chand Mitra (1814-1883), Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (1838-94), Michael Madhusudan Datta, Kali Prasanna Singha (1840-1870), Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876-1938), Bibhuti Bhushan Bandopadhyay (1894-1950),Tara Shanker Bandapadhyay (1898-1971), Balaichand Mukhopadhyay, Banoful (1899), Satyen Sen (1907-1981),Manik Bandopadhaya (1908-1956),Somen Chanda (1920-1942)        

Bimal Mitra, Syed Mujtoba Ali, Ashutosh Mukhopadhyay, Ashapurna Debi, Mahasweta Debi, Debesh Ray, Shawkat Osman (1917-89), Syed Wali Ullah (1922-1971, Gajendra Mitra, Syed Mujtaba Ali, Samaresh Bosu, Shibram Chakroborty, Dibyendu Palit, Annada Sankar Ray

Shahidullah Kaiser (1926-1971), Sunil Gangopadhyay (1934): Sei Somoy, Purba Pashchim, Syed Samsul Haque (1934), Shawkat Ali (1935), Sanjib Chattopadhyay (1936), Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, Samaresh Majumder, Abdul Mannan Syed (1943), Akhtaruz Zaman Elyas (1943-97), Maitryaee Debi, Kabita Singha, Buddha Deb Guha, Rizia Rahman, Dilara Hashem, Selina Hossain, Humayun Azad (1947-2004)

CRITICS & ESSAYISTS

Ishwar Chandra Gupta (1810-1898), Aksay Kumar Datta (1820-1886), Iswar Chandra Bidyasagar (1820-1891), Rajendra Lal Mitra (1822-1891), Bhudev Mukhopadhyay (1825-1898), Raj Shekhar Bosu (1826-1899), Dwijendra Nath Thakur: Linguistic essays (1840-1926), Ram Das Sen: Archaeological Essays (1845-1887), Hara Prasad Shastri (1852-1931), Troilokyanath Bhattacharya (1860-1903),
Aksay Kumar Maitrya (1861-1930), Dinesh Chandra Sen (1866-1939), Pramath Chaudhuri (1868-1946), Dr Muhammad Shahidullah  (1880-1969), Shudhir Pradhan (1883), Suniti Kumar Chattopadhyay (1890-1977), Dhurjati Prasad Mukhopadhyay (1896-1960),
Gaurisankar Bhattacharya, Prodyot Ghosh, Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri (1897-1998), Kazi Motahar Hossain (1897-1981), Rajyeswar Mitra, Gopal Halder, Sukumar Sen, Arun Kumar Basu, Sukumar Biswas, Ahmed Sharif, Abdullah Al Muti Sharifuddin (1930), Anisuz Zaman (1937), Muntassir Mamoon,

Philosophers/Thinkers/Reformers/ Educationists/ Intellectuals

Radhanath Shikder, Atish (Chandragarbha) Dipanker (982 AD), Sri Chaitanya(1486-1533), Ram Mohan Ray (1774-1833), Ramkrisna Paramhansa (1836-1886), , Shishir Ghosh (1840-1911): Baishnavite cult, Shibnath Shastri (1847-1919), Kudrat-e-Khuda, Bibek Ananda (1862-1902), Henry LV De Rosio (1809-31), Asutosh Mukhopadhyay, Ishwar Chandra Bidyasagaar (1820-1891), Aroj Ali Matubbar

TRANSLATORS

Krittibas, Kali Ram Das, Bidya Pati, Chandi Das, Gobinda Das, Balaram Das, Kamal Kumar Majumder, Geerish Chandra Sen, Gangadas Sen, Shah Waliullah, Shankar Chakravarty, Hayat Mahmood

ORGANISERS / NATIONALIST  ACTIVISTS

Satyen Sen (Udichi), Ranesh Dasgupta (Udichi), Ranada Prasad Saha (Kumudidni trust, Bharateshwari homes), Nutan Chandra Sen (Kundeshwari, Chittagong), Jogesh Chndra (Sadhana, Gandaria, Dhaka), Ashwini Kumar Datta (Barisal), Brajomohan (Barisal), Brajo Lal Ray (Khulna), Ananda Mohan (Mymensingh), Nalini Das (Bhola),

JOURNALISTS

FEMINISTS

POP WRITERS

Rahat Khan, Upendrakeshore Ray, Kazi Anwar Hossain (Masud Rana, Kuasha), Sukumar Ray, Romena Afaz (Dasyu Banhoor), Abadhut, Humayun Ahmed, Ray (Pheluda, Prof Sanku), Muntasir Mamoon, Sankar, Falguni Mukhopadhyay, Nimai Bhattacharya, Nihar Ranjan Gupta, Bimal Kar, Neil Lohit (Sunil G), Liela Majumder

Bibhuti Bhushan Bandopadhyay (1894-1950)

Aparajito, Umarani, Pui Macha, Aronyak, Ichhamoti, Debayan, Adarsha Hindu Hotel, Bipiner Sangsar, MeghaMallar, Mauriphool, Jatrabadol, Dristi Pradeep. Teen novel: Chander Pahar, Hira Manik Jwale, Bone Pahare, Maroner Donka Baje

Satyen Sen (1907-1981)

Manik Bandopadhaya (1908-1956)

Young poet and the assistant editor of Pragati Lekhakh Sangha. In 1941 Somen was elected the editor of the sangha and Achyut Goswami the assistant editor.

On 8 March 1942, the Communist Party launched a big protest rally against fascism. Among the participants in the rally and seminar from Kolkata were Jyoti Bosu, Snhangsu Acharya, Bankim Mukherjee and Sadhan Gupta. According to Gokul Chandra, a member of the communist party and an organiser of the rally Somen Chanda was killed by the goons of Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) at Sebasram, Sutrapur, Dhaka on 8 March 1942. Somen was actually leading a procession of the railway laborers to the seminar.

Works: End of Night, Dream, One Night, Signal, Riot, The Rat

Shawkat Osman (1917-

Syed  Wali Ullah (1922-1971): Lal Salu

Shahidullah Kaiser (1926-1971): 

Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay: Manob Jamin, Durbeen

Taslima Nasreen

Shame, My Girlhood, Ka, Dihkandita,Sei Sab Andhakar

Kazi Motahar Hossain (1897-1981)

Abdullah Al Muti Sharifuddin (1930)