#bangla

[enigma-the-mysterious]

We have moved on from the reverse casteism phase to the thinly veiled racism phase. Stay tuned to find out what new stuff hindutvavadis are going to come up with next 👍🏽😀

Trump would be so proud of these people

#original post #not incorrect quotes #lol #bengali #bangla #india #desi tag #desiblr #desi tumblr #desi stuff #desi

[bongboyblog]

A walk through Bengal's architecture

Bengali architecture has a long and rich history, fusing indigenous elements from the Indian subcontinent with influences from other areas of the world. Present-day Bengal architecture includes the nation of Bangladesh as well as the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, and Assam's Barak Valley. West Bengal’s architecture is an amalgamation of ancient urban architecture, religious architecture, rural vernacular architecture, colonial townhouses and country houses, and modern urban styles. Bengal architecture is the architecture of Wind, Water, and Clay. The Pala Empire (750–1120), which was founded in Bengal and was the final Buddhist imperial force on the Indian subcontinent, saw the apex of ancient Bengali architecture. The majority of donations went to Buddhist stupas, temples, and viharas. Southeast Asian and Tibetan architecture was influenced by Pala architecture. The Grand Vihara of Somapura, which is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, was the most well-known structure erected by the Pala rulers.

The Grand Vihara of Somapura

According to historians, the builders of Angkor Wat in Cambodia may have taken inspiration from Somapura. Bengal architecture became known for its use of terracotta due to the scarcity of stone in the area. Clay from the Bengal Delta was used to make bricks.

The temple architecture has distinct features like the rich wall decoration, often known as the terracotta temples, which was one of the remarkable elements of Bengali temple architecture. The double-roofed architecture of thatched huts was replicated by Bengali temples. Square platforms were used to construct the temples. Burnt brick panels with figures in geometric patterns or substantial sculptural compositions served as the temples' adornment.

Dochala style

These served as models for many temples that were built in undivided Bengal. Construction materials used in ancient times included wood and bamboo. Bengal has alluvial soil, so there isn't a lot of stone there. The bricks that were utilized to build the architectural components were made from stone, wood, black salt, and granite. Bengal has two different types of temples: the Rekha type, which is smooth or ridged curvilinear, and the Bhadra form, which has horizontal tiers that gradually get smaller and is made up of the amalaka sila. Mughal architecture, including forts, havelis, gardens, caravanserais, hammams, and fountains, spread throughout the area during the Mughal era in Bengal. Mosques built by the Mughals in Bengal also took on a distinctive regional look. The two major centers of Mughal architecture were Dhaka and Murshidabad. The do-chala roof custom from North India was imitated by the Mughals.

Jorasako thakurbari

The Rasmancha is a heritage building located at Bishnupur, Bankura district, West Bengal.

Influence of the world on Bengal architecture: Although the Indo-Saracenic architectural style predominated in the area, Neo-Classical buildings from Europe were also present, particularly in or close to trading centers. While the majority of country estates had a stately country house, Calcutta, Dacca, Panam, and Chittagong all had extensive 19th and early 20th-century urban architecture that was equivalent to that of London, Sydney, or other British Empire towns. Calcutta experienced the onset of art deco in the 1930s. Indo-Saracenic architecture can be seen in Ahsan Manzil and Curzon Hall in Dhaka, Chittagong Court Building in Chittagong, and Hazarduari Palace in Murshidabad.

Hazarduari Palace in Murshidabad

The Victoria Memorial in Kolkata, designed by Vincent Esch also has Indo-Saracenic features, possibly inspired by the Taj Mahal. Additionally, Kolkata's bungalows, which are being demolished to make way for high-rise structures, have elements of art deco. The 1950s in Chittagong saw a continuation of Art Deco influences. The Bengali modernist movement, spearheaded by Muzharul Islam, was centered in East Pakistan. In the 1960s, many well-known international architects, such as Louis Kahn, Richard Neutra, Stanley Tigerman, Paul Rudolph, Robert Boughey, and Konstantinos Doxiadis, worked in the area.

The Jatiyo Sangshad Bhaban

This iconic piece of contemporary Bangladeshi architecture, was created by Louis Kahn. Midsized skyscrapers dominate the cityscapes of contemporary Bengali cities, which are frequently referred to as "concrete jungles." With well-known architects like Rafiq Azam, architecture services play a key role in the urban economies of the area. Overall Bengal architecture was influenced by various contemporaries of their time and continues to evolve.

Gothic architectural style seen in St. Paul's Cathedral in Kolkata.

Zamindar era buildings in ruin.

Belur Math in Howrah

#bengali #bangla #west bengal #bangladesh #tripura #assam #desi #বাংলা #india #architecture #tales #bengal architecture #history #kolkata #international #technology #information #temple #asia #bricks

[suniah]

''Why come to see the moon,

If you’re going to make it rain?''

-bangla metaphor

#bangla #bengali #bengaliblr #bengali literature #bangla kabita #bangla kobita #bangla poems #desiblr #desi literature #desi dark academia #desi light academia #desi romance #desi tumblr #literature #quotes #life #dark academia #light academia

[myladytara]

"কি অদ্ভুত এক নিয়ম, এখানে মানুষ মানুষের শূন্য জীবনে আসে, তাকে আরও বেশি একা করে দেয়ার জন্য।"

— সে বসে একা।🎥

Translates to-

"What a strange rule, here people come into people's empty life only to make him more alone."

#movie quotes #bangla natok #bangladesh #bangla #qoutes #love #premika #creative writing #writeblr #spilled ink #writers on tumblr

[cv02-lside]

#vocaloid #kagamine len #hatsune miku #kagamine rin #project sekai #kagamine twins #vocaloid kagamine #miku hatsune #project diva #fanart #talkloid #chinese #japanese #español #spanish #english #bangla #language #miku #vocaloid miku #miku day

[jochona]

what my humour has come down to

#desiblr #desi academia #being desi #desi dark academia #desi #desi tag #desi shit posting #bengblr #bengali #bangla #desi memes #funny memes #memes #shit posting #shitpost #desi posting #desi people #desi humor

[thatdeshigirl]

i see a lot of stuff everywhere about how Bangla as a language is really sweet but no one ever really talks about how MAJESTIC it is.

like, good or bad, you can always find a way to make it sound GRAND in Bangla.

the mighty Padma that devours so much land every year? "Keertinasha" (the one who destroys creation)

playful movement of eyebrows? "Bhrubibhrom" (illusion of the brows)

like there is so much more- and i mean it when i say that being in love with Bangla is part of my being. It is in me, and I am in it- forever

#idc if you found that last part cheesy i am forever and ever a lover of bengali #desiblr #mother tongue #native language #bengali #bangladesh #bangla

[zindagi-se-darte-ho]

I Forget The Rules of This Game.

'one sided shesher kobita'

i gave you my copy of shesher kobita with little pencil annotates in it. i gave you a piece of literature dear to me and i expected you to give me your heart in return; an unfair trade. although i had put a piece of my heart in the pages of the book —my thoughts—, your eyes saw none of it, your heart read none of it.

plath writes in one of her earlier journal entries — "there is so much hurt in this game of searching for a companion, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and you turn away in tears."

and one day you returned the book, you never showed up again. yes, i forgot the rules of this game. and i forgot that you were good at.

#desi tumblr #desi aesthetic #poetry tumblr #desiblr #romantic #only love can break your heart #being desi #bengaliculture #bengali #bangla #sylvia plath #sylvia plath quotes #journals #desi girl #journaling #for the record #dear diary

[thebisexualwreckoning]

Bilingual (technically i speak enough languages to be considered a polyglot but eh) problems are that I speak Bangla at home but we have guests over who do not speak Bangla and I was taught it’s rude to speak in a language when other people in the room don’t understand it as well but I’m still in Bangla headspace because I didn’t know guest was at home so I just asked my mother the weirdest Hindi/bangla mash up of where we’re going, realised and just awkwardly walked away because just no

All of this is to say that there is some merit to it when authors write about how their characters forgot how to switch languages when speaking with someone else, they just don’t make it awkward enough

#polyglot #multilingual #bilingual #writing #bilingual characters #Bangla #Hindi #Bengali #what is the Bangla Hindi mashup called #hingali? #that just sounds weird #kismet’s day to day bullshit

[kethabali]

i just think its so cool how multilingual people's brains switch automatically when they use another language when i read arabic i automatically start reading from the right without even registering it even though i read left to right most of the time is that not amazing

#languages #multilingual #arabic #bangla #langblr #🧃

[bongboyblog]

সবাইকে দোল পূর্ণিমার শুভেচ্ছা! 🎨 Happy Dol Pūrṇimā!

Happy Holi to the rest of the subcontinent! 🎨

#bengali #bangla #india #bangladesh #west bengal #tripura #assam #jharkhand #বাংলা #desi #langblr #colours #colours in bengali #language learning #poll #dol poornima #dol jatra #holi #2023 #color #colour #festival

[suniah]

O Great Life (A slightly modified version of a translation by Osman Gani)

O Great Life! No more of this Poetry, Now bring the hard, harsh Prose, Let the poetic-tender-chime dissolve, Strike the tough hammer of Prose today!

(We) need not of the softness of Poetry– Poetry, today I give you a break, For in the realm of Hunger, the world is prosaic: The Full Moon appears to be a scorched bread.

– Sukanta Bhattacharya (Chharpatra, 1947)

#bangla kobita #bangla poetry #bangla literature #bengali #bangla #bangla song #rabindranath tagore #quotes #literature #poetry #rabindranath thakur #dark academia #desi dark academia #sukanto bhattacharya

[myladytara]

আমাদের এক ফেমিনিস্ট বান্ধবী একদিন সিগারেট খাইতে খাইতে বলতেসিলো, অমুকের বয়ফ্রেন্ড নাকি ওরে ক্যাম্পাসের কোন ছেলেদের সাথে মিশতে দেয় না। এতো টক্সিক বাবারে বাবা!!

আর এই যে আমারে দেখ, আমি বিড়ি খাইয়া আমার ছেলেবন্ধুদের সাথে রাতে কনসার্ট দেখতে গেলেও আমার বয়ফ্রেন্ড কিছু বলে না। এতো উদার।

আমি জিগাইসিলাম, তো, তুই রাইতের বেলা তোর ছেলে বেস্টুদের লগে কনসার্ট দেখতে যাস না কেন?

বিড়ির ধোঁয়া ছাড়তে ছাড়তে তার হতাশ উত্তর, কারণ, আমারে কেউ নিতে চায় না।

সুন্দরী মেয়েদের বয়ফ্রেন্ডরা কেন পজেসিভ বা প্রোটেক্টিভ হয়, আর বিড়ি বা গাঞ্জা খাওয়া মেয়েদের বয়ফ্রেন্ডরা কেন এতো উদার হয়, সেই প্রশ্নটার উত্তর সেদিন থেকে আমি জানি।

রাণী রাসমণি আর রইস্যার নানী দুইজনই মেয়ে। রাণী রাসমনি এলিট, তার প্রতি সবার আগ্রহ আছে, স্বাভাবিকভাবেই তার নিরাপত্তার কনসার্ন বেশি হবে, প্রচুর বডিগার্ড থাকবে, প্রোটোকল থাকবে।

এখন ঐটা দেখে যদি রইস্যার নানী নাক সিটকায়ে বলে, "এহহ, ঢং দেখে আর বাঁচি না। এই রাস্তা দিয়ে আমিও তো দিনে দশবার হাটি, কই, আমার তো এতো বডিগার্ড লাগে না? ওর লাগে মানে ঐ মেয়ের নিশ্চয়ই সমস্যা আছে" তাহলে কেমনে হবে?

মানুষ সবাইকে একভাবে ট্রিট করে না। যে যত স্পেশাল, তারে নিয়ে মানুষের কনসার্ন বেশি থাকে, বেশি থাকে হারানোর ভয়ও।

এইজন্য সবার আগে সক্রেটিসের কথাটা মাথায় রাখা জরুরি। নো দাইসেল্ফ। নিজেকে জানতে হবে। আপনি রইস্যার নানী, ঐটা সমস্যা না। কিন্তু আপনি নিজে রইস্যার নানী হয়ে যখন আপনি সবাইকেই আপনার মতো নানী ভেবে বসেন, এবং সবাইকে কেন আপনার মতো করে ট্রিট করে না, ঐ প্রশ্ন করে বসেন, তাহলে কেমনে হবে?

Know the difference.

Happy women's day y'all girlies out there ♡♡♡

@rozatherella girl you inspire me the most ♡lobe u loads 🥺🫶

#writeblr #writers and poets #casper #on love #women writers #bangla #beautiful women #high value mindset #girlblogging #the girl i desired to be #tara dreams #woman #womens day #collected

[binnte-dil]

bipasha basu, shob charitro kalponik সব চরিত্র কাল্পনিক (2009) dir. rituparno ghosh

#indian cinema #bengali cinema #bangla #bipasha basu #rituparno ghosh

[arachneofthoughts]

এক ফালি ইতিহাস

A Slice of History

So my father went to the Kolkata International Bookfair or any Bangali's favourite Boimela. He saw a stall of Sulekha inks...The Sulekha inks and of course he had to explore.

Let me share with you a brief history of Sulekha....

Around 1932 Satish Das Gupta, an ex-chemist of Bengal Chemicals prepares Swadeshi ink, names it Krishnadhara and sells it through Khadi outlets. He then hands the recipe over to Maitra brothers Shankaracharya and Nani Gopal and asked them to make the ink commercially and call it Sulekha ( there is also a story which claims Kobiguru Rabindranath Thakur gave them the name সুলেখা or Sulekha ). After years of an illustrious journey they closed around 1990 and then reopened in 2006.

So my father purchased three things. Two inks and a notebook.

The first ink is a blood red ink called সেলাম ( Selaam or Salaam ). It was made as a gift to Bangladesh commemorating The Language Movement ( ভাষা আন্দোলন ). At first 21 bottles were gifted as a tribute to 21st February. And the creator of the ink mixed in a drop of his blood in the first 21 bottles. Then the ink became popular and was manufactured more. It is a beautiful red colour...and every drop of this ink holds in it the memories of every drop of blood shed for my beloved Bangla Bhasha.

The second ink is a vibrant green. Coloured just like the green of India's Tiranga. This ink was formulated on the day after India's Independence. It is called Swadhin or স্বাধীন.

The third is a notebook made in collaboration with jamini Ray's family. And I absolutely love that notebook.

#history #indian history #spilled ink #miru writes #kolkata #bengblr #desiblr #india #bangladesh #bangla tag #bangla #language #inks #international language day #bhasha dibosh

[choppedphilosopherharmony]

শরৎ

দুমড়ে মুচড়ে দেওয়া টুথপেষ্ট এর টিউব, ফুটিফাটা মলিন কলতলায় শ্যাওলার ক্রেপ ব্যান্ডেজ, জোলো চায়ে সাবধানে ঢেলে দেওয়া চিনি, ভেসে ওঠা দু একটা ডেঁয়ো পিঁপড়ে, খাস্তা বিস্কুটের কৌটোর পাশে লক্ষনরেখার মানচিত্র, এর ভিতরে সুর বলে কিছু ছিল না,.. সুরের জায়গাই ছিল না, নিজেদেরই বা ছিল কি? । ক্লান্ত দুপুরে রুগ্ন একটা ঘুঘু ডাকে, চোখমুখ বসে যাওয়া ছেলেটার শেষ সিগারেট জ্বলতে জ্বলতে নিভে যাওয়ার উপক্রম হয়., ছেলেটা দুর্গাপুজো ভালোবাসে খুব.. কোনো কারণ ছাড়াই বাসে.. ছোট্টবেলায় ঠাকুরের চোখ পিটপিট দেখতে পেয়েছিল নাকি, চেঁচিয়ে বাড়ি মাথায় করেছিল ,কেউ বিশ্বাস করেনি অবশ্য ।.. ধুনো ধোঁয়ার গন্ধমাখা ভরাট বাতাস ওর ভালো লাগে বড্ড, মফস্বলের আকাশে মেঘের নকশাগুলোও.।. একটা প্লে লিস্ট বানানো ছিল ওর দিদির, সেকেন্ড হ্যান্ড নোকিয়া তে.. পুজো এলে খুব শুনত, ছুটির দুপুরে.. অঙ্কে ফেইল করার ভয়, পরপর নেমে আসা বেল্ট এর ভয় .. নিমেষে ভুলে যাওয়া যেত ওগুলো শুনলে,। দিদি সুইসাইড করল গত আষাঢ়ে.. তারপর থেকে আর শোনা হয় না গান। শুধু পুজো এলে দূরে বক্স বাজে

हम तुम कितने पास है

कितने दूर है चाँद सितारे

सच पूछो तो मन को

झूठे लगते है ये सारे

মৃদু হাওয়া বয়, দু চারটে মেঘ পথ হারিয়ে একে অন্যের ঘাড়ে চেপে বসে যেন একটা মুখ আঁকে । কপালের কালশিটের ব্যথা চিনচিন করে ওঠে। সূয্যি ডোবার আগে মেঘেরা মুখ আঁকা শেষ করে উঠতে পারেনা। তবু ছেলেটা মুখটা চিনে ফেলে ঠিক...

(যখন ক্লাস এইট নাইনে পড়ি ,তখন এক শরৎকালের কোন এক বেনামী ম্যাগাজিন এর জন্য এই লেখাটা লিখেছিলাম । ম্যাগাজিন টা বন্ধ হয়ে গেছে ,সবাই নাকি খুব ব্যস্ত থাকে)

@intellectual6666 করে দিলাম পোস্ট একখানা 🙂

#west bengal #writing #quotes #aesthetic #kolkatadiaries #bangla kobita #বাংলা কবিতা #বাংলা #love #Bangla #লেখালিখি #বাংলাদেশ