33 Bengali Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

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

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

How can BJP be anti-Bangla when BJP founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee himself was a Bengali? Amit Shah

Bengali Himself How Founder

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 was about 12 when I first encountered 'The Moonstone' - or a Classics Illustrated version of it - digging through an old trunk in my grandfather's house on a rainy Bengali afternoon. Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Old First Digging Bengali About Classics Through House Encountered Trunk Version Afternoon Grandfather Illustrated Rainy

I would even love to do a Bengali film if a good offer is made to me. Hema Malini

Love Good Me Made Bengali Would Offer Even Film

After doing the Bengali 'Antar Mahal,' I felt I should work with all Indian languages. Jackie Shroff

Work Bengali Indian Felt Doing After Should Languages

I speak English. I grew up speaking Bengali. This is the normal, the known, the obvious composition of who I am. Then there's Italian, this strange, other component of me that I've just created. It was a creative process just to learn the language, never mind to start expressing myself in it. Jhumpa Lahiri

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