Friendship Quote by Fahmid Hassan Prohor

“If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Not many people know that I am a Bengali actually.

— Amala Akkineni

I was born in Bangalore but grew up in Kolkata and I read, write and speak Bengali.

— Kiran Rao

I have a lot of Bengali friends and most of them are pretty well read.

— KK

Yes, I am a Bengali but I am sorry I can't converse in Bengali.

— Amala Akkineni

I do speak a bit of Bengali.

— Isa Guha

My father is a Malayalee, my mother is a Bengali.

— Ashish Vidyarthi

“the Bengali intellectual and author of the bestselling Autobiography of an Unknown Indian (1951), with its cringe-worthy dedication to the British empire in India: To”

— Shashi Tharoor

Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than…

— Bharati Mukherjee

“The Bengali was the Marwari of the early nineteenth century.”

— Amit Chaudhuri

I am a Bengali. My mother is from Mangalore so it's a mix of both cultures at home.

— Rhea Chakraborty

My great grandfather, Raj, was from Punjab, India. My grandmother graduated Rajasthan University.

— Joe Biden