Bangladesh

This place truly is constantly changing. Sitting on the largest river delta in the world, crouched beside the Bay of Bengal, this low-lying land sees its very soil renewed like clockwork each spring as the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers deliver -countless tons of mineral-rich silt. The world’s third largest Muslim nation, after Indonesia and Pakistan, Bangladesh is one of the most crowded places on the planet. It's also home to many spectacular river-swimming Bengal tigers. Over time, it has assimilated the beliefs of Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Jainism, all of which may be seen in its cultural life today.

Bengali novels occupy a major part of Bengali literature. The first official Bengali novel is Durgeshnondini written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in 1865. Some great novelists of West Bengal like Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Rabindranath Tagore, Manik Bandopadhyay, Tarashankar Bandopadhyay, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay developed the newly introduced genre in such a way that ‘new’ changed into ‘matured’ through their works. Almost all these literary activities went on in full swing in Kolkata. 

Picture: Durgeshnondini, Shesher Kobita, Shatkahon, Pother Dabi, Devdas, Pother Panchali, Aranyak, Ghare Baire, Chokher Bali 

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