The terrible sacrifice offered to Kali in the name of religion enhanced my desire to know Bengali
— Mahatma Gandhi
I feel I can express the nuances of the Bengali lifestyle and ways of thinking better than other cultures.
— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
My grandfather was an ordinary British citizen in the time of British Raj. He used to have Bengali friends from whom I learnt Bengali.
— Fahmid Hassan Prohor
The worst ... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
— Iris Chang
The shefali will not bloom until it was time for the pujas.
— Manoshi Bhattacharya
The Bengali was the Marwari of the early nineteenth century.
— Amit Chaudhuri
I used to crack A joke when Sourav Ganguly is upset and make him happy , i usually speak in bengali which would make him laugh — Sachin Tendulkar
If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line. — Baby Halder
We even had a different word for Christmas in my language, Bengali: Baradin, which literally meant 'big day.' — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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
If Bengali cuisine were Wimbledon, the hilsa would always play on Centre Court. — Samanth Subramanian
In the Bengali language, there's not a real word for blow job. They call it "doing the ice cream." — Michael Glawogger
Being a Bengali, one is surprised when all the endless spume and froth of talk suddenly reveals itself to be the front of a gigantic wave of action. — Neel Mukherjee
Fazulr Khan, a Bengali Muslim, designed the Sears Tower in Chicago. It was the world's tallest building when it opened in 1973. — Firas Alkhateeb
I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy. — Vikas Swarup
The shefali will not bloom until it is time for the pujas. — Manoshi Bhattacharya
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music. — Satyajit Ray
The joke is that one Bengali is a poet, two Bengalis is an argument, three Bengalis is a political party, — Shashi Tharoor
My wife Neelam is a North Indian, so she will make North Indian food, while my mother will make Bengali food. — Ronit Roy
