Bijli
TypeWeekly Bengali newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Publisher
Editor
  • Nalinikanta Sarkar
  • Prabodh Kumar Sanyal
Founded1920
LanguageBengali
CountryBritish India

Bijli is the name of a weekly Bengali newspaper first published in 1920. It was a film magazine started by Nalinikanta Sarkar, Barindra Kumar Ghosh, Sachchidananda Sengupta, Arun Singh and Dinesh Ranjan Das. Notable among its editors were Nalinikanta Sarkar, Prabodh Kumar Sanyal and others.[1][2]

Significant revelations

'The Rebel '(Bidrohi) the famous poem of the National poet of Bangladesh Kazi Nazrul Islam was first published in this magazine on Friday, 7 January 1922 (22 Poush 1326 BS) .[3][4][5] At that time the editor of the paper was Nalinikanta Sarkar.[6] Bijli had to be printed twice that day, numbering 29,000.[7][8] According to Muzaffar Ahmed, at least 200,000 people rebelled that day.[9]

References

  1. "সান্যাল, প্রবোধকুমার - বাংলাপিডিয়া". 2015-03-15. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  2. "প্রবাসী পত্রিকা". www.onushilon.org. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  3. "Daily Amardesh -ঢাকা, রোববার ২৩ ডিসেম্বর ২০১২, ৯ পৌষ ১৪১৯, ৯ সফর ১৪৩৪ হিজরী". 2015-03-15. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  4. "চির-উন্নত মম শির :: শেষের পাতা :: কালের কণ্ঠ". 2015-03-15. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  5. "The Daily Janakantha". 2015-03-15. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  6. "Daily Amardesh -ঢাকা, বৃহস্পতিবার ২৭ ডিসেম্বর ২০১২, ১৩ পৌষ ১৪১৯, ১৩ সফর ১৪৩৪ হিজরী". 2015-03-15. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  7. "চির-উন্নত মম শির :: শেষের পাতা :: কালের কণ্ঠ". 2015-03-15. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  8. "The Daily Janakantha". 2015-03-15. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  9. "Daily Amardesh -ঢাকা, রোববার ২৩ ডিসেম্বর ২০১২, ৯ পৌষ ১৪১৯, ৯ সফর ১৪৩৪ হিজরী". 2015-03-15. Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
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