Bengali Quotes
14 quotes by 11 authors
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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…
— Bharati Mukherjee
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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…
— 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 bengali which would make him…
— 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 in Bengali, and I need…
— 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 was brought up to revere…
— 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: ‘like the China rose, like…
— 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 languages in India, be it…
— 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. They also play in Bombay,…
— 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, Tamil movies and so on.…
— 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 food.
— 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 every possible Indian language.
— Shreya Ghoshal
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My parents being Bengali, we always had music in our house. My nani was a trained classical singer, who taught my mum, who, in turn,…
— Shreya Ghoshal
Who Wrote These Bengali Quotes
11 authors contributed a total of 14 Bengali Quotes as follows: