"In Bengal, Hindus are known to crack jokes……" — Sunil Gangopadhyaya

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• We'll all see through Mourinho. We'll find out he's just a Bengal lancer. — Eamon Dunphy
• The Mississippi and its paddle boats, and the rivers of Bengal and their gleaming steamers evoked a similar atmosphere of… — Qurratulain Hyder
• I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the colour of a rose in Bengal. — Jorge Luis Borges
• I find it striking that the quality of the urban habitat of homo sapieans is so weakly researched compared to… — Jan Gehl
• The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately… — Swami Vivekananda
• See how the Ganga flows by and what a nice building! I like this place. This is the ideal kind… — Swami Vivekananda
• Warmest climes but nurse the cruellest fangs: the tiger of Bengal crouches in spiced groves of ceaseless verdure. Skies the… — Herman Melville
• The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the… — Henry David Thoreau
• I have seen vast, perhaps unbelievable, changes during the journey that has brought me from the flicker of a lamp… — Pranab Mukherjee
• The East India Company established a monopoly over the production of opium, shortly after taking over Bengal. — Robert Trout
• My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in… — Ricky Jay
• 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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