Bengali Language: A Brief Introduction © Anup Mukherjee, i3pep.org, (Nov, 2003) Bengali language is the mother tongue of the people of West Bengal and Bangladesh. Both West Bengal and Bangladesh share a similar cultural heritage and a common history (until 1947). The area that is now Bangladesh is the eastern part of Bengal, and the [...]
Archive of entries posted on November 2003
Hinduism in Modern Times
Hinduism in Modern Times © Anup Mukherjee, i3pep.org (Nov, 2003) Hinduism in modern times is reflection of continuity and of progressive changes that occurred in its various traditions and institutions during the 19th and 20th centuries. By eighteenth century many ills had crept into it- superstition, social obscurantism, rigid rituals, tyrannical polytheism and abominable rites [...]
