My wife Neelam is a North Indian, so she will make North Indian food, while my mother will make Bengali food. — Ronit Roy Copy Share Image
Being a Bengali, I have kept in touch with the cinema of my mother tongue. — Sharmila Tagore Copy Share Image
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. — Satyajit Ray Copy Share Image
The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion. — Iris Chang Copy Share Image
People think that just because I live in Mumbai, I'm not interested in Bengali films. But I want to act more in… — Riya Sen Copy Share Image
Commercial Bengali movies are all crass imitation of Telugu and Tamil movies. There are only a handful of directors like Rituparno Ghosh,… — Victor Banerjee Copy Share Image
I have translated Bengali poets such as Subhash Mukhopadhyay and Sunil Gangopadhyay before. These were published by Hindi and Urdu magazines. But… — Gulzar Copy Share Image
Bengali and Malayalam industries are driven by sensible and subtle stories that people can relate to due to the states' literary and… — Rituparna Sengupta Copy Share Image
It is natural for the national audience to recognize me as an actor through 'Kahaani' because the film is in Hindi and… — Saswata Chatterjee Copy Share Image
When I was offered 'Abhijaan,' I didn't know any Bengali. But Satyajit Ray insisted, saying my character spoke a mixture of Bhojpuri,… — Waheeda Rehman Copy Share Image
The relationship between Victoria Ocampo and Tagore is something every Bengali has heard about and there is a mystery attached to it.… — Victor Banerjee Copy Share Image
I am very comfortable doing Bengali films because it's my mother tongue, which enables me to emote well, and my home is… — Konkona Sen Sharma Copy Share Image
I like all kinds of food, but if I had to choose a favourite Indian cuisine, it would absolutely be Bengali! I… — Tiya Sircar Copy Share Image
It is true that there are some surface similarities between my mother and Mrinalini's character since both were successful commercial actresses in… — Konkona Sen Sharma Copy Share Image
My parents being Bengali, we always had music in our house. My nani was a trained classical singer, who taught my mum,… — Shreya Ghoshal Copy Share Image
In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay is a stylistically daring writer in love with surrealism, credited with being 'the woman who reintroduced hardcore sexuality to Bengali… — Deborah Smith Copy Share Image
In a small village near Calcutta, in 1998, a villager who could not speak English sang me What Did You Learn In… — Tom Paxton Copy Share Image
I am overwhelmed by the reaction to my songs. At Mitra, people went crazy dancing to Paglu's songs. Naveena, which hardly ever… — Jeet Gannguli Copy Share Image
I would say the film world has stopped operating as one. We have divided it into Hindi movies, Bengali movies, Tamil movies… — Mithun Chakraborty Copy Share Image
In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: ‘like the… — Victoria Finlay Copy Share Image
“There was a time when the Bengali language was an angry flood trying to break down her door. She would crawl into… — Amitav Ghosh Copy Share Image
“The detective embodies, even more than the romantic drifter, rationality; this intriguing and apparent dichotomy pertains to a significant part of Bengali… — Amit Chaudhuri Copy Share Image
“Shubha let me sleep for a few moments in your violent silvery uterus Give me peace, Shubha, let me have peace Let… — Malay Roy Choudhury Copy Share Image
