Top 39 Quotes About Bengali
#1. If Bengali cuisine were Wimbledon, the hilsa would always play on Centre Court.
Samanth Subramanian
#2. Being a Bengali, one is surprised when all the endless spume and froth of talk suddenly reveals itself to be the front of a gigantic wave of action.
Neel Mukherjee
#3. I feel I can express the nuances of the Bengali lifestyle and ways of thinking better than other cultures.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#4. I was about 12 when I first encountered 'The Moonstone' - or a Classics Illustrated version of it - digging through an old trunk in my grandfather's house on a rainy Bengali afternoon.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#5. My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population.
Satyajit Ray
#6. I interviewed a lot of people in India, and I asked my mother to send me a lot of Bengali books on the tradition of dream interpretation. It's a real way for me to remember how people think about things in my culture.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#7. It was the English word she used. It was in English that the past was unilateral; in Bengali, the word for yesterday, kal, was also the word for tomorrow. In Bengali one needed an adjective, or relied on the tense of a verb, to distinguish what had already happened from what would be.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#8. In a small village near Calcutta, in 1998, a villager who could not speak English sang me What Did You Learn In School Today? in Bengali! Tom Paxton's songs are reaching around the world more than he is, or any of us could have realized. Keep on, Tom!
Tom Paxton
#9. At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
Satyajit Ray
#10. In the Bengali language, there's not a real word for blow job. They call it "doing the ice cream."
Michael Glawogger
#11. I don't know Bengali perfectly. I don't know how to write it or even read it. I have an accent, I speak without authority, and so I've always perceived a disjunction between it and me. As a result, I consider my mother tongue, paradoxically, a foreign language.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#12. The joke is that one Bengali is a poet, two Bengalis is an argument, three Bengalis is a political party,
Shashi Tharoor
#13. To me he will not just be remembered as a great player and a lovely human being, but as somebody who tried to learn Bengali for the last 14 years but never managed to do so!
Sourav Ganguly
#14. I have no words to express my sadness, grief, and frustration. I never thought Bengali people could do such a heinous and atrocious thing. My heart goes out to those innocent victims and their families.
Debasish Mridha
#15. I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
Vikas Swarup
#16. My wife Neelam is a North Indian, so she will make North Indian food, while my mother will make Bengali food.
Ronit Roy
#17. We even had a different word for Christmas in my language, Bengali: Baradin, which literally meant 'big day.'
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#18. The Bengali tends to run to brains rather than brawn and does not take kindly to the discipline and order of a hard life; at the same time, he lacks neither courage nor ability, and shines in the higher ranks."
Sir Charles Tegart
Manoshi Bhattacharya
#19. The intention (of the puja pandals) is not so much to entertain as to disorient and astonish; to tap into the Bengali's appetite for the bizarre, the uncanny.
Amit Chaudhuri
#20. What had driven the litigation-loving Bengali to turn his gentle green valley into a pocket edition of hell?'
John Younie, the judge who tried the Chittagong Armoury Raid Case.
Manoshi Bhattacharya
#21. I speak English. I grew up speaking Bengali. This is the normal, the known, the obvious composition of who I am. Then there's Italian, this strange, other component of me that I've just created. It was a creative process just to learn the language, never mind to start expressing myself in it.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#22. I would say the film world has stopped operating as one. We have divided it into Hindi movies, Bengali movies, Tamil movies and so on. Earlier, there was only one channel and we all knew what was going on. Today, it is hard to keep track of programmes due to the advent of regional channels.
Mithun Chakraborty
#23. Whenever I get married, it will be a Bengali wedding. If I won't have a Bengali wedding, my mother won't come. She has warned me. So, I am going to have a Bengali wedding for sure.
Bipasha Basu
#24. Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional languages in India, be it Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
#25. I used to crack A joke when Sourav Ganguly is upset and make him happy , i usually speak in bengali which would make him laugh
Sachin Tendulkar
#26. The terrible sacrifice offered to Kali in the name of religion enhanced my desire to know Bengali
Mahatma Gandhi
#27. I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and every possible Indian language.
Shreya Ghoshal
#28. In Bengali class, Gogol is taught to read and write his ancestral alphabet, which begins at the back of his throat with an unaspirated K and marches steadily across the roof of his mouth, ending with elusive vowels that hover outside his lips
Jhumpa Lahiri
#29. Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.
Bharati Mukherjee
#30. My grandfather was an ordinary British citizen in the time of British Raj. He used to have Bengali friends from whom I learnt Bengali.
Fahmid Hassan Prohor
#31. The Bengali was the Marwari of the early nineteenth century.
Amit Chaudhuri
#32. My memory of my household is of one immersed in books and music. I have a very intimate relationship with Bengali literature, particularly Tagore, and my interest besides reading then was music.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#33. I'm scared that the pencil sides might disappear, just as a drawing can be rubbed out by an eraser. Bengali will be taken away when my parents are no longer there. It's a language that they personify, that they embody. When they die, it will no longer be fundamental to my life.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#34. Fazulr Khan, a Bengali Muslim, designed the Sears Tower in Chicago. It was the world's tallest building when it opened in 1973.
Firas Alkhateeb
#35. I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
Taslima Nasrin
#36. The worst ... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
Iris Chang
#38. If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line.
Baby Halder
