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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

Topics: Bengali Best Bombay Different Even Experiences Film Film Industry Hindi India Industry Known Languages Made Might Movies Other Regional Those Too

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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

Topics: Altogether Am Art Bengali Compose Composing Different Film Music Never Songs Songwriter Thought Write I Am I Write

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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

Topics: Am Bengali Books Connect English Fond Like Novels Read Reading Short Short Stories Stories I Am

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What I like about Calcutta is the food. I like simple Bengali food like dal, shukto, fish, and mutton.

~Barun Sobti

Topics: About Bengali Fish Food Like Simple

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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.

~Bharati Mukherjee

Topics: Anarchy Bengali Brought Convent Family Going Growing Growing Up Hindu Irish Nuns Old-Fashioned Only Revere Rules Run School Stern Up Without

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Whenever I get married, it will be a Bengali wedding. If I won't have a Bengali wedding, my mother won't come. She has warned me. So, I am going to have a Bengali wedding for sure.

~Bipasha Basu

Topics: Am Bengali Come Get Get Married Going Married Me Mother She Sure Warned Wedding Whenever Will I Am

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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

Topics: Bengali Charity Disappeared Founded Image Indian Mission Missionaries Monica Mother Nuns Placed Remote She Suffering Tumor Village Woman

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I feel I can express the nuances of the Bengali lifestyle and ways of thinking better than other cultures.

~Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Topics: Bengali Better Cultures Express Feel Lifestyle Nuances Other Than Thinking Ways I Feel I Can

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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

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

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We even had a different word for Christmas in my language, Bengali: Baradin, which literally meant 'big day.'

~Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Topics: Bengali Big Christmas Day Different Even Had Language Literally Meant Which Word

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