Top Bengali Quotes
Browse top 19 famous quotes and sayings about Bengali by most favorite authors.
Favorite Bengali Quotes
1. "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."
Author: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
Author: Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
2. "Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.'"
Author: Bharati Mukherjee
Author: Bharati Mukherjee
3. "Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy."
Author: Bharati Mukherjee
Author: Bharati Mukherjee
4. "India's linguistic diversity surprises many Westerners, but there are nearly thirty languages in India with at least a million native speakers. There are more native speakers of Tamil on our planet than of Italian. Likewise, more people speak Punjabi than German, Marathi than French, and Bengali than Russian. There are more Telugu speakers than Czech, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, Greek, Slovak, and Swedish speakers combined."
Author: Bob Harris
Author: Bob Harris
5. "The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion."
Author: Iris Chang
Author: Iris Chang
6. "It was the English word she used. It was in English that the past was unilateral; in Bengali, the word for yesterday, kal, was also the word for tomorrow. In Bengali one needed an adjective, or relied on the tense of a verb, to distinguish what had already happened from what would be."
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
7. "In Bengali class, Gogol is taught to read and write his ancestral alphabet, which begins at the back of his throat with an unaspirated K and marches steadily across the roof of his mouth, ending with elusive vowels that hover outside his lips"
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
Author: Jhumpa Lahiri
8. "Shafiul's English, it must be said, is limited (although as one wag pointed out, not as limited as his interrogators' Bengali). So when he was asked whether he had deliberately tried to disrupt Trott's elongated guard-taking procedure by aborting his own run-up, he insisted there had been no plan. Pushed moments later on whether [Jamie] Siddons had spoken to the team about the need to disrupt Trott's elongated guard-taking process, Shafiul nodded jubilantly. We were left none the wiser."
Author: Lawrence Booth
Author: Lawrence Booth
9. "People are often shy to acknowledge that they are Bengalis. They somehow take pride in saying that they cannot speak or read the language."
Author: Mithun Chakraborty
Author: Mithun Chakraborty
10. "West Bengal belongs to Bengalis. We should live here like a king and not as servants."
Author: Mithun Chakraborty
Author: Mithun Chakraborty
11. "I would say the film world has stopped operating as one. We have divided it into Hindi movies, Bengali movies, Tamil movies and so on. Earlier, there was only one channel and we all knew what was going on. Today, it is hard to keep track of programmes due to the advent of regional channels."
Author: Mithun Chakraborty
Author: Mithun Chakraborty
12. "Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it. (Bengali poet and novelist, 1861-1941)"
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
13. "My wife Neelam is a North Indian, so she will make North Indian food, while my mother will make Bengali food."
Author: Ronit Roy
Author: Ronit Roy
14. "My films play only in Bengal, and my audience is the educated middle class in the cities and small towns. They also play in Bombay, Madras and Delhi where there is a Bengali population."
Author: Satyajit Ray
Author: Satyajit Ray
15. "I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture."
Author: Taslima Nasrin
Author: Taslima Nasrin
16. "A little smile on your face, because you'd just untangled a new translation." He cleared his throat. "Like this one. Tumi amar jeeboner dhruvotara." She tilted her head, puzzling over the phrase. "That's not Hindustani." "Bengali. It means ‘You are my life's bright star' in Bengali." The sweet words were edged with frustration, not tenderness. His knuckles cracked. "Obviously, I was saving that one. For the right morning."
Author: Tessa Dare
Author: Tessa Dare
17. "I need to have some depth in my characters. That's why they are all Bengalis. I can't imagine writing a book with someone called Saxena as the hero."
Author: Upamanyu Chatterjee
Author: Upamanyu Chatterjee
18. "In 1879 the Bengali scholar S.M. Tagore compiled a more extensive list of ruby colors from the Purana sacred texts: ‘like the China rose, like blood, like the seeds of the pomegranate, like red lead, like the red lotus, like saffron, like the resin of certain trees, like the eyes of the Greek partridge or the Indian crane…and like the interior of the half-blown water lily.' With so many gorgeous descriptive possibilities it is curious that in English the two ancient names for rubies have come to sound incredibly ugly."
Author: Victoria Finlay
Author: Victoria Finlay
19. "I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy."
Author: Vikas Swarup
Author: Vikas Swarup
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