Going back to Bangla or Bengali Literature

First of all, I apologize to all my Feedburner Readers who subscribed to this blog as I have neglected it a lot. Secondly, I also like to apologize to all the readers for not maintaining any consistency in the topic of this blog. After a lot of thinking, I have decided to go back to my roots or original topic- Bangla (Bengali) literature.

I hope that this time I can stick to my resolution and carry on what I intended to do. Well, one of the problems that I faced is that there is hardly any comment or reader’s feedback. This can be quite frustrating at times. My original goal about this blog was to write about Bengali literature to English readers. I had two goals- 1. to publish original articles and entries about Bengali literature in English literature and 2. to translate some poems, short stories and even novels of Bangla literature in to English. I hope I can do it this time. I really wish to do it. In fact, we have a small team and let us what we can do in the coming days.

Do some freehand writing Everyday

By freehand writing, I’m indicating that kind of writing that you just write something without thinking of your quality or errors. You may feel that it is only for the beginners but this is not right because let us take a few seconds and think that every day for how many minutes we write something. There is no doubt that we read a lot, we even speak more and perhaps we lease and most. However, when it comes to writing, we surely give the least amount of time. Some days, many of us do not have any writing to do but we should not forget that it is a very important skill in the human life.

Even in the educational system, it is the most important factor that determines the outcome of your grades. Whatever you learn for the whole semester or year, in the end you have to sit in an examination and write the things that you were asked to in the question paper. That is why; you should not neglect this matter and must do some freehand writing everyday.

Social Classes in Jane Austen’s Novel Pride and Prejudice

Pride and Prejudice is a very successful novel of Jane Austen. If we look at the characters background about social class, we can find the presence of characters from lower, middle and upper classes. Mr. Darcy is a rich man and his friend Mr. Bingley is also from a rich family. The Bennet sisters are from the middle class background and their friends and relatives belong to the same level. There are some servants from the lower class. It seems to me that Jane Austen has more soft corner for the Middle class people. Most of the rich people except Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley are stupid and arrogant. They have artificial life and artificial manner.
On the other hand, we have a smart girl in Elizabeth Bennet. Her sister Jane is also a good person with good quality.

Why there are not so Many Blogs on Literature?

I have been professionally blogging for the last three years and I have noticed that there are very few blogs on literature. It is a bit confusing to me because Blogging has given us the opportunity to write about our own literature of different countries. Until the emergence of Blogging, it was very difficult to publish anything Internet at free of cost but thanks to this new medium of Internet publishing; it is really a free and very easy to publish your writing.

What I feel is that literature is not a very popular topic in Internet and most people are not that much interested to read creative writing by unknown and new writers. Secondly, Even if you write about the literary heritage of the country the problem is that it will not bring you good amount of revenue from advertising programs like Adsense. So, taking a serious effort to set up and then maintain a blog on literature is very difficult and will not bring good return on time and investment.

Write from your Heart: It is very Difficult

When someone comes to me and ask for any advice on how to improve writing skill in English language, the only advice I give to them is that write from your heart. I just tell them that they should just write whatever they want and they should write on a topic that they enjoy. In my city, many people are fond of entertainment and sports. So, if I see any young person then my advice to them use that start writing about sports or entertainment. In fact, in this age of the Internet, it is very easy to open a blog at free of cost and then you can write whatever you want. However, I have noticed that it is not that easy. I mean writing from heart is not so easy because when we’re trying to express ourselves in a foreign language then there is some kind of mental pressure.

Surely, There is lack of confidence and we do not know whether the thing that we’re writing is correct or not. We are also worried about the reaction of our readers. This happens a lot in blogging because what I am writing today will be read by many people in the next few years. So, there is some kind of mental pressure in my subconscious mind that I should try to write something that is not bad and will not make me the object of laughter. I understand that this is a common problem for many people and maybe, it is much less in me than others.

My final advice is the same that try to write from your heart no matter what happens.

After Newspapers Will Novels Become the Casualty of Blogging?

Recently, there has been a lot of discussion taking place in both newspapers and top blogs about the future of print newspapers. It seems that the newspaper industry is suffering a lot of financial loss and their future is at stake. Internet and blogs have made it very easy for most people to read news and get updated round the clock at free of cost. In fact, sometimes, major blogs break news earlier than newspapers or even in some cases earlier than TV channels. So, more and more people are depending on blogs as their news source. As a result, advertising revenue has decreased in the newspaper industry.

I was wondering today whether the novels would become the next big casualty. Of course, you cannot find any blog that publishes novels on a regular basis. Some hobby bloggers do that but they are not that popular. However, it is quite possible that soon, many aspiring novelists would want to do that and some of them will be successful in making a fan base. In fact, I have the same desire when I can find some more time to devote. I have good experience in blogging and I know how to get visitors or promote my work in Internet. So, if I can write a good novel then I am optimistic of having a decent amount of readership. The difficult part is the revenue part. Most people in Internet are not interested to buy any content. So, they will not be interested to buy a novel written by an unknown writer. Google Adsense and Amazon ads are good only when you have many visitors daily.

So, I do not thinks that novels will be the next casualty. However, I do think that it will eventually happen and will take time.

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