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Salman Khan is the founder of Khan Academy and author of the book The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined.Shahabuddin Ahmed is considered to be among the very best of the contemporary artists in the world. He is a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France.Tareque Masud (1956 – 2011) won multiple international awards for his films like Muktir Kotha, Matir Moyna and Ontarjatra.Fazlur Rahman Khan (1929 – 1982) was one of the greatest civil engineers in history. He is known for his revolutionary innovations in structural engineering; in particular, his tubular structural systems. The world’s tallest building Burj Khalifa among others, uses a bundled tube structure invented by Khan. He engineered buildings like the Sears Tower and the John Hancock Centre.Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri (1923 – 2005) was one of the most important relativists of the past century. His famous Raychaudhuri Equation forms the basis of Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose’s celebrated Hawking – Penrose Singularity Theorems.Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus is the founder of Grameen Bank. He is considered to be the "father of modern microcredit and microfinance".Sir Fazle Hasan Abed is the founder and chairman of BRAC, the world's largest non-governmental organization. BRAC operates in Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Philippines, Uganda, Tanzania, South Sudan, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Haiti. It provides assistance to organizations in Haiti, Sudan, and Indonesia. It also has affiliate organizations in the United Kingdom and the United States.Partha Pratim Majumder is a world famous mime artist. He is a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France.Jawed Karim, a co-founder of YouTube, is half-German and half-Bangladeshi.Meghnad Saha (1893 – 1956) was a major astrophysicist. His eponymous Saha Ionization Equation is a fundamental part of modern astrophysics.http://www.capjournal.org/issues/01/11_17.pdfIn 2015, M. Zahid Hasan led a team in Princeton University which discovered the elusive Weyl Fermion predicted 85 years ago by Hermann Weyl. This discovery is believed to have revolutionized the entire field of electronics and will usher the world into a new era of technology. Hasan also led the team which made the first experimental discovery of Topological Insulators in 2008.Abul Hussam invented the Sono Arsenic Filter. He is the recipient of the 1 million dollar Grainger challenge Prize for Sustainability 2007, awarded by the United States National Academy of Engineering.Irene Khan served as the seventh Secretary General of Amnesty International (2001-2009). She received the Sydney Peace Prize in 2006.Tahmima Anam's 2007 novel A Golden Age, was the Best First Book winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize.Abdus Suttar Khan (1941-2008) was a chemist and metallurgist. As a key researcher of NASA, United Technology and Alstom, he invented more than forty different alloys for commercial application in space shuttles, jet engines, train engines and industrial gas turbines.Azizul Haque (1872 – 1935) pioneered the modern fingerprinting method (Henry Classification System).Dwijendra Kumar Ray-Chaudhuri is known for his work in design theory and the theory of error-correcting codes.Tommy Miah is a British celebrity chef, owner of the award-winning Raj Restaurant and founder of the International Indian Chef of the Year Competition. He is popularly known as the "Curry King" in Britain. In 2004, Miah was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (1920-1975) is known as the "father of the nation" in Bangladesh.General M.A.G. Osmani (1918-1984) was the Commander-in-Chief of the Mukti Bahini during the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971.Bir Uttom Ziaur Rahman (1936-1981), a war hero, was a former president of Bangladesh and the founder of South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC).Lalon Shah (c. 1774 - 1890) was a Baul mystic and songwriter. He influenced writers like Rabindranath Tagore, Kazi Nazrul Islam and Allen Ginsberg. He is popularly known as the "Baul Shamrat" or "The King of Bauls". Baul Songs are one of the "Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity" recognized by UNESCO.Zia Haider Rahman has won Britain’s oldest literary prize, the James Tait Black Award, in 2015 for his first novel In the Light of What We Know.Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose (1858 – 1937) discovered millimeter waves and made important improvements on the coherer. His pioneering use of semiconductors to detect radio waves have contributed to the development of solid-state physics. He also invented the crescograph for measuring growth in plants. His work in millimeter-band radio was recognized as an IEEE Milestone in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2012. http://ethw.org/Milestones:List_of_IEEE_MilestonesSatyajit Ray (1921 – 1992) was born into the famous Ray Family hailing from Kishorganj. Ray is considered to be one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. He received an Honorary Academy Award in 1992. Ray's father Sukumar Ray, was a famous humorist author and grandfather Upendrakishore Ray, was an accomplished polymath. What a family !Nafees Bin Zafar has won an Academy Award for Best Technical Achievement in 2015 and an Academy Scientific and Engineering Award in 2008.Zainul Abedin (1914 - 1976) is remembered in the broader world for his famous sketches of the 1943 Bengal Famine.Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897 - 1999) was a controversial writer best known for his magnum opus The Autobiography of an Unknown Indian. He won the Duff Cooper Memorial Award for his non-fiction work The Continent of Circe.Begum Rokeya (1880 - 1932) was a leading feminist writer. Her famous works include Sultana's Dream, Essence of the Lotus and The Woman in Captivity.Abdullah Al Muti (1930 - 1998) was a popular science writer in Bangladesh. He received the UNESCO Kalinga Prize in 1983.Abdus Salam, Abul Barkat, Rafiq Uddin Ahmed and others were the martyrs of the Bengali Language Movement in 1952. 21st February is observed as the International Mother Language Day every year commemorating their sacrifice.Hason Raja (1854 - 1922) was a mystic philosopher, folk-song writer and composer. His work was introduced to the West by the Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore.Maqsudul Alam (1954 - 2014) sequenced the genomes of papaya, rubber, jute and fungus.Taslima Nasrin has won the Shakharov Prize, the Simone de Beauvoir Prize and other accolades for her advocation of gender equality.Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen has made contributions to welfare economics, social choice theory, economic and social justice, economic theories of famines, and indexes of the measure of well-being of citizens of developing countries.http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/1998/sen-bio.htmlAzam Ali won the Bayer Innovators Award in 2010 fordeveloping a new wound dressing.Asif Azam Siddiqi is an eminent space historian. His first book Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945-1974 is widely considered to be the best history book in English about the Soviet space program.http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB116743216335962786Ali Akbar Khan (1922 – 2009) was a great Hindustani classical musician. He was awarded the National Heritage Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts of the United States. He was also honoured with a Padma Vibhushan in 1989.Allauddin Khan (1862 – 1972) was one of the most renowned Hindustani classical musicians of the 20th century. He is considered to be the creator of the Maihar gharana of Hindustani music. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 1971.The emperors of the Pala dynasty ruled Bengal-Bihar for 424 years (750 - 1174). Bengal was the home of great indigenous empires and independent kingdoms. In terms of global cultural influence, the Pala period was perhaps the most remarkable of them all. Gopala (reign 750 - 770), the founder of the dynasty, rose to power during a period of anarchy. The empire reached it's peak under Devapala's reign (810 - 850). He greatly expanded the kingdom, making it one of the largest empires to ever exist in the sub-continent. The vast empire collapsed soon after Devapala's death and was largely confined in the North-eastern part of the sub-continent. There were periods of rejuvenation, however, under Mahipala I (reign 988 - 1036) and Rampala (reign 1077 - 1130). The Palas were Buddhists and it was through missionaries from their kingdom that Buddhism was finally established in Tibet. Under Pala patronage a distinctive school of art arose, which influenced the art of Southeast Asia, Tibet, Kashmir and Nepal. The Ramacharitam and the Charyapada were written during this period. The Somapura Mahavira constructed during Dharmapala's reign (770 - 810) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site (picture below) .Shilabhadra (529 - 645) was a Buddhist monk and philosopher. He was the personal tutor of the famous Chinese traveller Xuanzang.Atisa (980 - 1054) was a major figure of classical Buddism. Bodhipathapradīpa is considered to be his magnum opus. He is the founder of the bka' gdams pa school of Buddhism in Tibet.Tilopa (988 - 1069) was a Tantric practitioner and mahashiddha. All of the various Tibetan mahāmudrā lineages can be traced back to him.Debabrata Basu (1924 – 2001) made fundamental contributions to the foundations of statistics.Monica Ali is the author of the book Brick Lane. She is half-English and half-Bangladeshi.Neamat Imam is the author of the novel The Black Coat. The novel has been described as a "gold standard for any book which seeks to engage with South Asian politics or history" and a "future classic" by critics.Mrinal Sen has gained international fame and recognition for his films like Oka Oori Katha, Parashuram, Akaler Sandhane, Kharij etc. He is a Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France.* Muhammad Shahidullah (1885 - 1969) from West Bengal was a renowned linguist, philologist and writer. He did his famous research on the origins of the Bengali language during his stay at Dhaka University. One of his major discoveries was that the Bengali language descended from Magadhi Prakrit. He was made a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres of France in 1967.* Satyendranath Bose (1894 – 1974) from West Bengal did his famous work on quantum mechanics during his stay at Dhaka, then part of Unified Bengal. He was the Head of the Department of Physics of Dhaka Universityfrom 1926 to 1945. The 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics was given to Cornelle, Wieman and Ketterle for their discovery of the Bose-Einstein Condensate in 1995. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2001/popular.html* Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899–1976), our national poet, hailed from West Bengal. Later in his life, he became a Bangladeshi citizen.* Sri Gupta (240 – 280) was the founder of the Gupta Empire. The Gupta period is known as the Golden Age of India. The ancestry and origin of the Gupta dynasty is shrouded in mystery. However, the most likely candidate for their homeland is Varendri (modern-day Rajshahi). This is based on the accounts of the contemporary Chinese traveller Lui Han -“I-tsing came to India in 673 AD. Five hundred years before his time ie second century AD Chinese traveller Hui Lan visited Nalanda. At that time one Maharaja Srigupta built a temple, known as the 'Temple of China', situated close to a sanctuary called 'mi-li-kia-si-kia-po-no' (Chinese form of Mrgashikhavana or Mrgasthapana) for the Chinese priests. He also granted twenty-four villages as an endowment for its maintenance. This temple was situated about forty yojanas (equivalent to 240 miles) to the east of Nalanda. From Nalanda, following the course of the Ganges, the distance of Murshidabad is about forty yojanas. DC Ganguly, considering the distance and direction given by I-tsing, pointed out that the original home of the Guptas must have been located near about Murshidabad. HC Raychoudhuri was in favour of Varendri. In an illustrated Cambridge Manuscript, dated 1015 AD, there is a picture of a stupa, with the label 'Mrgasthapana Stupa of Varendra'. It would, therefore, follow that the 'Temple of China' was near the Mrgasthapana Stupa in varendra, and must have been situated either in Varendra, or not far from its boundary, on the bank of the Bhagirathi or the padma. So it could be assumed that the original home of the Guptas was most probably Murshidabad in West Bengal or Varendra in North Bengal. However, many scholars hold contrary opinions and Raychaudhuri or Ganguly's theory shall have to wait for further corroborative evidence.” (Banglapedia)

Abhay Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was an Indian spiritual teacher and the founder preceptor of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, commonly known as the "Hare Krishna Movement.The fallowing are lesser known facts of Still Prabupada.1.His college and school name is Abhay de.2.His senior in College was Subhas Chandra Bose.3.He followed Bose and Ghadhiji in youth time.He even started to wear Khadi and Ghadhi cap.4.He did not get bachelor degree even after appearing in final examination due to non cooperation Movement.5.He is first modern social reformer after Independence .He did not desciminate on the basis of caste , religion , language,lineage and color.He sees everybody as spiritual soul a servant of God.5.He considered all religion and God equal. Everyone is lover and servant of Same God.6.He himself lived among poor and discarded people and developed them.7.He taught us again the importance of cleanliness.He told cleanliness is next to Godliness.We can see the temples of Hare Krishna devotees they are so clean.8.He is first person in modern era who spread benefits of vegetarian dishes around every corner of the world.He cooked himself dishesisherve people.9.He taught us thar no neighborhood person should be hungry.10. He is the first Born Abhay Charan De on September 1, 1896, in Calcutta,11.As a youth he became involved with Mahatma Gandhi’s civil disobedience movement.12 It was, however, a meeting with a prominent scholar and spiritual leader, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, which proved most influential on young Abhay’s future calling. Upon their first meeting Srila Bhaktisiddhanta, who represented an ancient tradition of Bhakti (devotional yoga), asked Abhay to bring the teachings of Krishna to the English-speaking world13. From birth, Abhay had been raised in a family devoted to Krishna – the name meaning the all-attactive, all-loving Lord.14 Deeply moved by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta’s devotion and wisdom, Abhay became his disciple and dedicated himself to carrying out his mentor’s request.15′But it wasn’t until 1965, at the age of seventy, that he would set off on his mission to the West.16.Having since been awarded the honorary title of Bhaktivedanta in recognition of his learning and devotion, and having taken the vows of sannyasa (renunciation), Abhay Charan, now known as Bhaktivedanta Swami, begged free passage and boarded a cargo ship to New York.17.The journey proved to be treacherous, and the elderly spiritual teacher suffered two heart attacks aboard ship.18 After 35 days at sea he finally arrived at a lonely Brooklyn pier with just seven dollars in Indian rupees and a crate of his translations of sacred Sanskrit texts.20.In New York he faced great hardships without money or a place to live.21.He began his mission humbly, by giving classes on the Bhagavad-gita in lofts on the Bowery, New York’s infamous skid row, and leading kirtan (traditional devotional chants) in Tompkins Square Park.22. His message of peace and goodwill resonated with many young people, some of whom came forward to become serious students of the Krishna-bhakti tradition. With the help of these students, Bhaktivedanta Swami rented a small storefront on New York’s Lower East Side to use as a temple.23. After months of hardship and struggle, in July of 1966, Bhaktivedanta Swami established the International Society for Krishna Consciousness for the purpose of checking the imbalance of values in the world and working for real unity and peace.24.He taught that each soul is part and parcel of the quality of God and that one could find true happiness through living a simpler, more natural way of life and dedicating one’s energy in the service of God and all living beings.25.Having begun initiating his American followers into the Gaudiya Vaishnava lineage, Bhaktivedanta Swami next traveled to San Francisco.26. Amidst the emerging hippie community in the Haight-Ashbury district, during 1967’s “Summer of Love” he taught that the experience of devotion through kirtan was a spiritual “high” superior to any pleasures derived from material sources such as wealth, fame, or intoxication.27.In the following months many more came forward to assist him. Desiring to address him with the respect due a revered spiritual teacher, his disciples began to call him Srila Prabhupada, meaning “one who sits near to the feet of God ”.28.In the eleven years that followed, Srila Prabhupada circled the globe fourteen times, bringing the teachings of Bhakti to thousands of people on six continents.29.Men and women from all backgrounds came forward to accept his message.30.With their help, Srila Prabhupada established centers and projects throughout the world including temples, rural communities, educational institutions, and what would become the world’s largest vegetarian food relief program.31.With the desire to nourish the roots of Krishna-bhakti in its home, Srila Prabhupada returned to India several times, where he sparked a revival in the Bhakti tradition. In India, he opened dozens of temples, including important centers in the holy towns of Vrindavana and Mayapur.32.Perhaps Srila Prabhupada’s most significant contribution is his books. He authored over seventy volumes on Bhakti-yoga, which are highly respected for their authority, depth, clarity, and fidelity to tradition.34.His writings have been translated into seventy-six languages. His most prominent works include: Bhagavad-gita As It Is, the thirty-volume Srimad-Bhagavatam, and the seventeen-volume Sri Caitanya-caritamrita.35.For millennia the teachings of Bhakti-yoga had been concealed within Sanskrit and Indian vernacular languages, and the rich culture of Bhakti had been hidden behind the borders of India. Today, millions around the globe express their gratitude to Srila Prabhupada for revealing the timeless wisdom of Bhakti to a world immersed in a materialistic and self-destructive ethos.36.A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada passed away on November 14, 1977, in the holy town of Vrindaban, surrounded by his loving disciples who carry on his mission today.37. APPRECIATIONS OF SRILA PRABHUPADAA.“Swami Bhaktivedanta came to the USA and went swiftly to the archetype spiritual neighborhood, New York’s Lower East Side, and installed intact an ancient, perfectly preserved piece of street India..He adorned a storefront as his Ashram and adored Krishna therein.By patience, good humor, and singing and chanting and expounding Sanskrit terminology, he day-by-day established Krishna consciousness in the psychedelic center of America East.He and his children sang the first summer through in Tompkins Square…To choose to attend to the Lower East Side, what kindness and humility and intelligence ….The main thing, above and beyond all our differences, was an aroma of sweetness that he had, a personal, selfless sweetness like total devotion. And that was what always conquered me” – Allen GinsbergB.“The thing that always stays is his saying, “I am the servant of the servant of the servant.” I like that. A lot of people say, “I’m it. I’m the divine incarnation. I’m here and let me help you.” You know what I mean? But Prabhupada was never like that. I liked Prabhupada’s humbleness.I always liked his humility and his simplicity. The servant of the servant of the servant is really what it is, you know. He just made me feel so comfortable.I always felt very relaxed with him, and I felt more like a friend. I felt that he was a good friend.Even though he was at the time seventy-nine years old, working practically all through the night, day after day, with very little sleep, he still didn’t come through to me as though he was a very highly educated intellectual being, because he had a sort of childlike simplicity. Which is great, fantastic.Even though he was the greatest Sanskrit scholar and a saint, I appreciated the fact that he never made me feel uncomfortable. In fact, he always went out of his way to make me feel comfortable.I always thought of him as sort of a lovely friend, really, and now he’s still a lovely friend…Srila Prabhupada has already had an amazing effect on the world. There’s no way of measuring it.One day I just realized, “God, this man is amazing!” He would sit up all night translating Sanskrit into English, putting in glossaries to make sure everyone understands it, and yet he never came off as someone above you.” – George HarrisonC.“Swami Bhaktivedanta brings to the West a salutary reminder that our highly activistic and one-sided culture is faced with a crisis that may end in self-destruction because it lacks the inner depth of an authentic metaphysical consciousness. Without such depth, our moral and political protestations are just so much verbiage” – Thomas Merton, Catholic theologian, monk, authorD.‘When I first met the students of Srila Prabhupada, I can remember thinking how surprised I was, and I wondered what this meant..But as I came to know the movement, I came to find that there was a striking similarity in the essence of what they were teaching and in the original core of Christianity-that is, living simply, not trying to accumulate worldly goods, living with compassion towards all creatures, sharing, loving, and living joyfully.I am impressed with how much the teachings of one man and the spiritual tradition he brought impacted themselves into the lives of so many people.In my view Srila Prabhupada’s contribution is a very important one and will be a lasting one….This life of Srila Prabhupada is pointed proof that one can be a transmitter of truth and still be a vital and singular person.At what almost anyone would consider a very advanced age, when most people would be resting on their laurels, he harkened to the mandate of his own spiritual teacher and set out on the difficult voyage to America. Srila Prabhupada is one in a thousand, maybe one in a million” – Harvey Cox, Professor of Divinity, Harvard UniversityE.“Srila Prabhupada gave meaning to many whose lives had become meaningless during the countercultural revolution. In a time of prosperity, many American youth have felt a disdain for the materialistic goals of the established culture.They have not felt that earning more money to spend on sensual pleasures has given an abiding happiness to their parents. They have come to believe that there must be a more valuable transcendental reality which they have yet to find.Therefore, they have not found direction toward a goal in our established culture, nor have they found meaning in the mainline religions that have supported this culture. For these people, Srila Prabhupada has provided a meaningful place which bears witness to quite different objectives, and he has provided a strict discipline by means of which one may achieve them.So this, I think, was one of his greatest contributions….I certainly honor Srila Prabhupada as one of India’s pre-eminent scholars. As a translator of many of India’s important religious texts, he gave special attention to the spirit and beauty of the texts.. Srila Prabhupada, in his translations, really captured their essential spirituality.A literal translation which lacks sympathetic reverence for the text itself can obscure rather than elucidate its profound inner meaning. I find that Srila Prabhupada’s translations bring these works to life….Due to his unstinting and diligent labors, the whole world now has been made aware of the devotional essence of the Indian spiritual tradition, as well as of one of India’s great saints, Sri Caitanya, and of Gaudiya Vaisnavism, whereas before they were scarcely known outside India except by specialists in Hindu religious tradition” – Dr. Stillson Judah, Professor of the History of Religions and Director of the Library, Graduate Theological Seminary, Berkeley, CaliforniaF.“No work in all Indian literature is more quoted, because none is better loved in the West than Bhagavad-Gita. Translation of such a work demands not only knowledge of Sanskrit but an inward sympathy with the theme and a verbal artistry.For the poem is a symphony in which God is seen in all things. His Divine Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada is, of course, profoundly sympathetic to the theme.He brings to it, moreover, a special interpretative insight, a powerful and persuasive presentation in the bhakti (devotional) tradition…The Swami does a real service for students by investing the beloved Indian epic with fresh meaning.Whatever our outlook may be, we should all be grateful for the labor that has led to this illuminating work.” – Dr. Geddes MacGregor, Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern California to start free food to needy person.Thanks for readingheCourtesy: Google and biography of sria Prabupada ji

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo had most of it's worldwide release in 2010, and was recognized by award ceremonies primarily for 2010 films. And it certainly deserved the recognition, for this is a remarkable film on ever level. As an adaptation, it gave life to one of the best fictional characters of the decade -- Lisbeth Salander -- in what is surely one of the most bizarre, twisting, brutally relevant exposés of a society's dark social secrets in a modern film. It is extremely faithful to the book, distilling the essence and mood perfectly, and helped propel the international acclaim and fascination with the book series to new heights.Here is the trailer: