"In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided……" — Bharati Mukherjee
"In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood I'd grown up in was homogeneously Hindu, Bengali-speaking, and middle-class. I didn't expect myself to ever disobey or disappoint my father by setting my own goals and taking charge of my future."
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21 Quotes by Bharati Mukherjee
Bharati Mukherjee has 21 quotes on this site.
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In Hindu societies, especially overprotected patriarchal families like mine, daughters are not at all desirable. They are trouble. And a…
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My first novel, 'The Tiger's Daughter,' embodies the loneliness I felt but could not acknowledge, even to myself, as I…
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What was the duty of the teacher if not to inspire?
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I had never walked on the street alone when I was growing up in Calcutta, up to age 20. I…
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The traveler feels at home everywhere, because she is never at home anywhere.
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I am an American, not an Asian-American. My rejection of hyphenation has been called race treachery, but it is really…
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Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously…
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I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in…
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I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate…
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There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive…
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Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I…
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One of the early tip-offs to me about the enormous changes that were going on with being in a Bangalore…
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In a small village near Calcutta, in 1998, a villager who could not speak English sang me What Did You…
— Tom Paxton
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I used to crack A joke when Sourav Ganguly is upset and make him happy , i usually speak in…
— Sachin Tendulkar
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The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
— Iris Chang
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I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write…
— Taslima Nasrin
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Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I…
— Bharati Mukherjee
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In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts:…
— Victoria Finlay
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Even in India the Hindi film industry might be the best known but there are movies made in other regional…
— Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
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At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
— Satyajit Ray
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My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns.…
— Satyajit Ray
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I would say the film world has stopped operating as one. We have divided it into Hindi movies, Bengali movies,…
— Mithun Chakraborty
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My wife Neelam is a North Indian, so she will make North Indian food, while my mother will make Bengali…
— Ronit Roy
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I learnt to sing in Bengali, my mother tongue, then went on to sing in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati and…
— Shreya Ghoshal
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