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How can BJP be anti-Bangla when BJP founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee himself was a Bengali?
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Amit Shah
Indian
Politician
Born:
Oct 22
,
1964
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I don't know Bengali perfectly. I don't know how to write it or even read it. I have an accent, I speak without authority, and so I've always perceived a disjunction between it and me. As a result, I consider my mother tongue, paradoxically, a foreign language.
Jhumpa Lahiri
Me
Speak
Result
Mother
Language
Consider
Bengali
Paradoxically
Perceived
Write
Perfectly
Between
Know
Accent
Read
Without
Mother Tongue
Always
How
Foreign
Foreign Language
Authority
Even
Tongue
At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.
Satyajit Ray
Music
Age
Youth
Listening
Bengali
Classical
Classical Music
Poetry
Writes
Almost
Inevitably
European
I like all kinds of food, but if I had to choose a favourite Indian cuisine, it would absolutely be Bengali! I love things like masoor dal with begun bhaja - or any type of bhaja, really - machher jhol, bhapa chingri. And how can you beat gorom, gorom rosogolla?
Tiya Sircar
Love
Food
You
Type
Bengali
Would
Indian
Favourite
Kinds
Beat
Absolutely
Had
Like
How
Cuisine
Begun
Any
Really
Choose
Things
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 Tamil or Bengali. Those experiences too are different from the ones in Bombay.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Best
Made
Too
Other
Bengali
Those
India
Industry
Known
Hindi
Different
Experiences
Movies
Regional
Might
Languages
Even
Film
Bombay
Film Industry
How can BJP be anti-Bangla when BJP founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee himself was a Bengali?
Amit Shah
Bengali
Himself
How
Founder
I am songwriter. I do compose the music of songs that I write in Bengali. But I've never thought of composing for a film. That's a different art altogether.
Arijit Singh
Music
Art
Thought
Bengali
Compose
Composing
Write
Never
Songs
Songwriter
Altogether
Am
Different
Film
I like to read Bengali novels and short stories. I am not that fond of reading English books, as I don't have a connect with it.
Arijit Singh
Reading
Books
Bengali
Fond
Like
Read
Am
Short
Stories
Short Stories
English
Connect
Novels
I love to cook, and both Pancham and Gulzarbhai loved to eat. Gulzarbhai loves my karela ghosht and my Bengali kheer.
Asha Bhosle
Love
Bengali
Eat
Both
Loved
Loves
Cook
Monica Besra, a Bengali woman from a remote Indian village, was reportedly suffering from a malignant ovarian tumor when she went, in 1998, to a hospice founded by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity. Nuns at the mission reportedly placed a medallion with Teresa's image on Besra's abdomen, and the tumor disappeared.
Charles Duhigg
Woman
Suffering
Charity
Mother
Nuns
Bengali
Indian
Disappeared
Remote
Mission
Missionaries
She
Tumor
Placed
Village
Founded
Monica
Image
I feel I can express the nuances of the Bengali lifestyle and ways of thinking better than other cultures.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Better
Thinking
Other
Bengali
Ways
Lifestyle
Feel
Cultures
Than
Express
Nuances
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