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noted Bengali writer Rajnarayan Basu was a tutor of Asia 's first Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore ?
the tyranny and the perceived dread of Gobindram Mitter , a British deputy in Calcutta , earned him a place in a Bengali rhyme?
a version of the traditional Bengali panjika , the Hindu astrological almanac , comes with an interactive CD-ROM ?
Mukh O Mukhosh (The face and the mask ), directed by Abdul Jabbar Khan, is the first full-length Bengali language feature film to be produced in the erstwhile East Pakistan , which later became Bangladesh ?
Indian author and journalist Peary Chand Mitra played a leading role in the Bengal renaissance in the 19th century and became known as the "Dickens of Bengal" due to his clear Bengali prose?
Leela Majumdar , author of children's books, translated Jonathan Swift 's Gulliver's Travels and Ernest Hemingway 's The Old Man and the Sea into Bengali ?
Hindi , Bengali , and Portuguese have all recently been proposed as official languages of the United Nations ?
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