
The seventh edition of Apeejay Bangla Sahitya Utsav include eminent personalities like Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay, Pabitra Sarkar, Rudraprasad Senguta, Nrisingha Prasad Bhaduri, Bani Basu, Subhaprasanna, Kamaleshwar Mukherjee, Parambrata Chattopadhyay, Subodh Sarkar, Anindya Jana, Procheto Gupta, Himadrikishore Dasgupta, Saikat Mukherjee, Prasun Banerjee, Binod Ghosal, Gaurav Chakraborty, Subhankar Dey, Indrani Chakraborty, Yashodhara Roychoudhury, Dipannita Roy, Raja Bhattacharya, Debjyoti Bhattacharyya, Abhijnan Roychowdhury to name a few. I sincerely hope that this association will help both organisations to reach their goals. Through this association, we wish to promote Bengali literature on various platforms. In our endeavour to promote regional language, we have the literary initiative 'Aakhar' which is present in more than 10 cities in India. It will also have 16 specially curated sessions which range from graphic novels, audio books, cosmology, journalism, cinema and of course Bangla literature".ĪBSU, Executive Trustee - Prabha Khaitan Foundation, Anindita Chatterjee said: "This is the second year Prabha Khaitan Foundation got associated with Apeejay Bangla Sahitya Utsav. Bengali as a term can describe the people, language, alphabet, and culture. There are surnames that suggest an occupation or are indicative of a location, thus toponymic. For instance, some popular surnames are considered a title given by a king, while some others indicate a lineage to an ancient clan. The festival will feature special sessions paying tribute to the legendary authors Sankha Ghosh, Buddhadeb Guha and Anish Deb. Bengali surnames often have interesting legends behind their origin. Speaking on the occasion, ABSU Director & CEO Oxford Bookstores, Swagat Sengupta said: "This is the second year that we have been successfully able to curate a festival of this stature in the online and physical format. The history of Bengali is marked by the diversity of.

It is linguistically related to Sanskrit and has had a rich history as a literary language since the close of the first millennium. An interactive platform bringing together voices of contemporary Bangla Literature from the national and international stage, ABSU showcases all aspects of Bangla literature and literary expression and their impact on various art forms. Bengali (aka Bangla) is spoken in northeastern India and Bangladesh by over 200 million speakers, and thus ranks 6th in number of native speakers in the world.
