Bengali Culture Quotes

Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.

My father always taught me to never be quiet. That's the good thing about a Bengali household.

I have celebrated Jamai Sasthi before marriage.

My parents being Bengali, we always had music in our house. My nani was a trained classical singer, who taught my mum, who, in turn, was my first teacher. Later I would travel almost 70 kms to the nearest town, Kota, to learn music from my guru Mahesh Sharmaji, who was also the principal of the music college there.

The only thing redeeming about my being born a Bengali is being brought up reading Rabindranath and Saratchandra. Other than that, the stagnancy of this city put me off all along.

It's a common notion that if you like Tagore, then he must have had an influence on your life. While I like Tagore's poetry and his thoughts, he doesn't influence my work.

I lived in Calcutta for five months in 1999. While I was there, I read many journals, diaries, collections of letters and histories.

Even before marriage I used cook delicious dishes for my wife and mother-in-law on Jamai Sasthi.

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

My father is a Sindhi and my mother, a Bengali.

No Bengali comedy show is complete without mocking my mannerisms.

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.

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.

I was brought up in a Bengali family. We were three girls and never made to feel any lesser than men.

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

My nickname is Mishti... I am named after mishti doi!

I am a Bengali. My mother is from Mangalore so it's a mix of both cultures at home.

I am a Bengali, I like my rice.

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.

My memory of my household is of one immersed in books and music. I have a very intimate relationship with Bengali literature, particularly Tagore, and my interest besides reading then was music.

We have inherited both Rabindranath Tagore and Satyajit Ray. We love them and we respect them and we adore them, so we also have the right to critique them.

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

When I was young, we didn't celebrate February 14. For us, Valentine's Day meant Saraswati Puja. And just a single day in a year can't be Valentine's Day.

I was an Indian with zero sense of caste till I was 20. That's an unusual privilege but it came out of the fact that I was a middle-class Bengali.

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.