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|name = Ramesh Shil<br />
|native_name=রমেশ শীল<br />
|native_name_lang = bn<br />
|birth_date=1877<br />
|birth_place=Gomadandi village, [[Chittagong District]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]]<br />
|death_place={{death date and age|1967|4|6|1877}}<br />
|awards=[[Ekushey Padak]]<br />
}}<br />
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'''Ramesh Shil''' (1877 – April 6, 1967) was a [[Bengali people|Bengali]] [[bard]]. He belonged to the class of bards, called ''Kabiyals'', who improvised songs in poetic contests evolved in [[Calcutta]] and its outskirts in the 18th and the 19th centuries,<ref name=bpedia>{{cite book |last=Islam |first=Sirajul |year=2012 |chapter=Shil, Ramesh<br />
|chapter-url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Shil,_Ramesh |editor1-last=Islam |editor1-first=Sirajul |editor1-link=Sirajul Islam |editor2-last= Ahmed|editor2-first=Wakil|title=Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh |edition=Second |publisher=[[Asiatic Society of Bangladesh]]}}</ref> and also became known for his composition of songs in the [[Maizbhandari]] musical tradition. He was awarded [[Ekushey Padak]] in 2002 by the [[Government of Bangladesh]].<br />
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==Background and career==<br />
Shil was born to Chandi Charan Shil and Rajkumari Shil. Shil got his breakthrough in 1945 when he defeated Sheikh Gumani in a song contest arranged by the [[Nikhil Bharat Banga Sahitya Sammelan]] in [[Calcutta]]. In the contest, they improvised verses and hurled strophes and antistrophes at each other.<ref name=bpedia/><br />
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==Works==<br />
Shil composed about 350 [[Tarika-e-Maizbhandari|Maizbhandari]] songs praising the Maizbhandari order and its proponent [[Syed Ahmad Ullah|Ahmed Ullah Maizbhandari]]. These songs had been published in nine volumes titled ''Ashekmala'', ''Shantibhandar'', ''Muktir Darbar'', ''Nure Duniya'', ''Jibansathi'', ''Satyadarpan'', ''Bhandare Maula'', ''Manab Bandhu'' and ''Eshke Sirajia''.<ref name=bpedia/><br />
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Shil wrote notable songs like ''"Ishkul Khuilachhe Re Maula"''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thedailystar.net/news-detail-224004|title=Chittagong Arts Festival pulls in major turnout|author=Arun Bikash Dey and Shahenoor Akther Urmi|date=February 27, 2012|access-date=June 14, 2016|newspaper=The Daily Star}}</ref><br />
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[[Bulbul Lalitakala Academy]] honored him as the ''Greatest Bard'' in 1962.<ref name=bpedia/><br />
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==Personal life==<br />
Shil first married Apurba Mohini in 1900. They had one daughter Shailbala. After early deaths of next two daughters and one son, he married for the second time. From the second marriage with Abola Bala, they had four sons and two daughters.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://boalkhali.chittagong.gov.bd/node/1347807/কবিয়াল-রমেশ-শীল|access-date=June 14, 2016|publisher=Government of Bangladesh|script-title=bn:কবিয়াল রমেশ শীল |language=bn}}</ref><br />
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[[Category:1877 births]]<br />
[[Category:1967 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Bengali male poets]]<br />
[[Category:People from Chittagong]]<br />
[[Category:Recipients of the Ekushey Padak]]<br />
[[Category:19th-century Bengali poets]]<br />
[[Category:19th-century Indian male writers]]</div>Bot