Bangladesh in Italy: Italian books about bengali

3/09/2010

Italian books about bengali

Grammatica Bengali - Bangla Grammar
"Grammatica Bengali" (Bangla Grammar)
Editing by "Libreria Bonomo Editrice" on 1st May 2008.

This is the only all-italian-language hand-book sold in the world about bangla language's learning. This grammar follows a progressive and logical method to introduce at the bangla language, from basic alphabet notions to all the hardest grammatical rules. It explaines also bengali daily life, society, culture. In appendix a huge practicle glossary

Dizionario Bengali - Bangla Dictionary
"Dizionario Bengali" (Bangla Dictionary), p 592, paperback edition, size 10,5x14,5. ISBN code 9788878871687. Editing by "Antonio Vallardi Editore" on October 2009.

This is the only complete Italian-to-Bangla, Bangla-to-Italian dictionary sold in the world. It includes 14,000 words and 38,000 translations, more a small Bangla Grammar (for italians) and a small Italian Grammar (for bengalis) practicle to learn something about those languages. Usefull for those italian who want to visit Bangladesh and West Bengal, and for those bengali who live in Italy and they need to learn correctly italian.

Rony Akther, BCII President and Founder, had the pleasure to shake hands with great Muhammad Yunus. Muhammad Yunus - Bangladeshi, 2006 Peace Nobel Price, creator of the "microcredit system" and founder of the "Grameen Bank" (The Bank of the Village, in Bengali language) - and Rony Akther met in Rome in 2009. Yunus congratulated BCII President on the important idea to create a Bangladesh Cutural Institute in Italy and on the BCII activity. Furthermore, he wished BCII activity during 2008 and a reach future for the Institute, after to enquire about BCII next activities and projects. For Rony Akther it was a very great honour to receive such an appreciation by a renowned celebrity like Muhammad Yunus!

Bangladesh Cultural Institute of Italy (B.C.I.I.) is an ONLUS ( a non-profit-making organization) whose purpose is to promote the Bangladeshi culture and language in Italy. B.C.I.I. aims to be a point of reference for the “Second Generation”, children of Bangladeshi immigrants in Italy, in order to let them to benefit from the cultural heritage of their ancestors, even if they were born, they grow up and they live in Italy. In fact to go into the Bangladeshi cultural heritage thoroughly is very difficult when people live far from the one’s place of origin. B.C.I.I. originated from a Rony Akther’s project. Rony and many other representatives of the Bangladeshi intelligentsia in Italy want to support a new Italian identity, so that it can be more and more intercultural. Established on the 1rst September 2007, in Rome, B.C.I.I. started his activity in occasion of the Boishakhi Mela 1415, the Bangladeshi New Year’s Day festival, who took place on April 2008 in Rome. To promote Bangladeshi language and culture, B.C.I.I. organizes all year round countless events and manifestations, as literary meetings to spare the knowledge of important Bangladeshi personalities, writers, intellectuals. Then, B.C.I.I. aims to support too the work of Bangladeshi artists as musicians, dancers. The purpose of B.C.I.I. is to make known the musical tradition of Bangladesh and the use of traditional musical instruments, as tablā, harmonium e and sitar. Furthermore, B.C.I.I. aspires to be a guide for the discovery of the surprising Bangladeshi cookery, with tasting of traditional flavours and dishes, as byriani rice, paesh sweet or gilapi pancakes. Finally, B.C.I.I. is involved too in the promotion of the local Bangladeshi handicrafts, as the sumptuous silk used to make shari typical dresses or ruby jewels. Rony Akther, BCII President and Founder, is a Probad Purush (presenter and speaker on the stage), of the Bangladeshi Culture. He lives in Italy frome almost 15 years. He has a very great love for the stage, but also for the philosophy. Graduate in Political Science, he started going everywhere, in Italy and also abroad, to spread the Bangladeshi Culture and Language. The creation of the BCII in 2007, in Itay, is the last but not the least project he achieved.