Bangladesh Quote by Taslima Nasrin

“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

I have a connection with Bengali heroines. I have worked with Tanushree Dutta and Bipasha Basu.

— Vivek Agnihotri

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

— KK

I think of the Tamil poet Subrahmanya Bharati every day, and he is an inspiration in my musical creations.

— Ilaiyaraaja

In school I was sidelined by Tamil language teachers. But in the film industry, I got interested in Tamil poetry after reading and working…

— Mani Ratnam

I've been greatly influenced by the music of R.D. Burman and Sudhin Dasgupta, and I took it as a challenge to bring back the…

— Jeet Gannguli

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

— Satyajit Ray

There's this great fashion among writers, especially those who follow the transnational conservatives like V.S. Naipaul, to disavow one's place in the world as…

— Karan Mahajan

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

— Kiran Rao

From Calcutta has gone forth a living stream of knowledge in many branches of study. It is inspiring to think of the long succession…

— C. V. Raman

Since my schooldays, I've read the translations of Bengali writers. I'm Punjabi, but I read a lot of Bengali and Urdu literature.

— Gulzar

The only thing redeeming about my being born a Bengali is being brought up reading Rabindranath and Saratchandra. Other than that, the stagnancy of…

— Sayani Gupta