A number of realistic IPTA plays, such as Bijon Bhattacharya's Nabanna in 1944 ( based on the tragedy of the Bengal famine of 1943 ), prepared the ground for the solidification of realism in Indian cinema, exemplified by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas's Dharti Ke Lal ( Children of the Earth ) in 1946.

Many festivals such as Onam in Kerala, Bihu in Assam, Sankranthi in Andhra Pradesh Thai Pongal In Tamil Nadu, Makara Sankranthi in Karnataka, Nabanna in West Bengal celebrates harvest of Paddy.

* A Bengali play " NEELKANTHA DESH " ( 2010 ) by Supratim Roy

Gavaskar vowed never to play at Eden Gardens again, and duly withdrew from the team for India ’ s next fixture at the Bengali capital two years later, ending his record of 106 consecutive Tests.

The film, which narrated the story of three youngsters from different stratums of society, saw Mukerji play a Bengali housewife opposite Bachchan.

Noted Bengali director Ardhendu Bose saw her acting in a school play and took permission from her father to cast her as a heroine in his film Roshanara ( 1952 ), her cinematic debut.

Insisting to play her part spontaneously, Kapadia did not do a crash-course in Bengali, as she felt she would be able to pick the right diction.

He used to play before the liberation war and was the first Bengali to captain the white team of Pakistan national team, visited country Japan, China, Malaysia, Singapore and Pakistan.

In pohela boishak, the first day of Bengali year, boys-girls and all section of people play with color water ( similar to Holy in India ) in every road.

A popular myth comprehended by some Bengali authors about Jayadeva, the famous Sanskrit poet of Orissa ( then known as the Kalinga ) and author of Gita Govinda, was one of the Pancharatnas ( meaning 5 gems ) in the court of Lakshman Sen ( although this may be disputed by some ).

The largest in terms of native speakers being Hindustani ( Hindi-Urdu ) ( about 240 million ), Bengali ( about 230 million ), Punjabi ( about 90 million ), Marathi ( about 70 million ), Gujarati ( about 45 million ), Oriya ( about 30 million ), Sindhi ( about 20 million ), Saraiki ( about 18 million ), Nepali ( about 14 million ), Chittagonian ( about 14 million ), Sinhala ( about 16 million ), and Assamese ( about 13 million ) with a total number of native speakers of more than 900 million.

" Bengali actress Rituparna Sengupta for a question on her opinion about exposing navels had said, " No problem, even a sari reveals the belly button.

He moved about in India for a few years, with a Bengali novice Buddhist, the future Buddharakshita, as his companion, meditating and experiencing for himself the company of eminent spiritual personalities of the times, like Mata Anandamayi, Ramana Maharishi and Swamis of Ramakrishna Mission.

Scheduled tribes are about 30 % of the population in which Kokborok-speaking Tripuri people form the major tribe ; Bengali people form the ethno-linguistic majority of the population.

From about 1812, the Bengali reformer Raja Rammohan Roy started his own campaign against the practice.

Sylheti is spoken by about 10 percent of Bangladeshis, but has affected the course of standard Bengali in the rest of the state.

Stevenson had recordings analysed by Bengali speakers, who disagreed among themselves about the subject's fluency.

The film is about an upper class Bengali family on vacation in Darjeeling, a popular hill station and resort, near Kanchenjunga.

He also sang about 20 film songs ( inclusive of Bengali films ) for which he composed music though he may not have been the music director of the films.

* Champion ( 2003 film ), an Indian Bengali film about sports

The town of Plassey has a memorial of The Battle of Plassey ( Bengali: পল া শ ী র য ু দ ্ ধ, Pôlashir Juddho ), which took place on 23 June 1757, on the riverbanks of the Bhagirathi River, about 150 km north of Calcutta, near Murshidabad, then the capital of the Nawab of Bengal.

He wrote many books on these subjects, and his research answered many of the interesting questions about specific properties of Bengali language and literature.

* The Maharajah of Mysore forces the British to agree a treaty of mutual assistance in view of the famine, but the British East India Company increases its demands on the Bengali people to keep profits up.

During his reign the devastating famine of 76 ( 1769 A. D., Bengali era 1176 ) saturated Bengal.

A Pakistan Air Force T-33 trainer was hijacked on August 20, 1971 before Indo-Pakistani war of 1971 in Karachi when a Bengali instructor pilot, Flight Lieutenant Matiur Rahman, knocked out the young Pilot Officer Rashid Minhas with the intention of defecting to India with the plane and national secrets.

Dating back to 1932, " Tollywood " was the earliest Hollywood-inspired name, referring to the Bengali film industry based in Tollygunge, Calcutta, whose name is reminiscent of " Hollywood " and was the center of the cinema of India at the time .< ref name = Sarkar >

The economic disparity, impression that West Pakistan despite being less populated than East Pakistan was ruling and prospering at its cost further popularize the Bengali nationalism.

Many Bengali Hindus left for Calcutta after partition, and their place, particularly in commerce, was taken mostly by Muslims who had migrated from the Indian state of Bihar or by West Pakistanis from different provinces.

Following the promulgation of 1956 Constitution, Prime minister Bogra appointed Bengali bureaucrat and retired Major-General Iskander Mirza was as Interior minister and the Army Commander of army General Ayub Khan as the Defence minister whilst Muhammad Ali remained Economic minister.

The tendency of communism was far more greater and deeper in East Pakistan than the West, and had massive support in poor, working class, and peasant circles on the issues of Bengali nationalism and Bengali Language Movement.

One of the most famous was The Apu Trilogy ( 1955 – 1959 ) from critically acclaimed Bengali film director Satyajit Ray, whose films had a profound influence on world cinema, with directors such as Akira Kurosawa, Martin Scorsese, James Ivory, Abbas Kiarostami, Elia Kazan, François Truffaut, Steven Spielberg ,< ref name = unmaderay >

The eruption was also reported by a Bengali sea captain, who wrote of the event later, but who had not recorded it at the time in the ship's log.

Since this story was intended as a political polemic, credit for the first science fiction story is often given to later Bengali authors such as Jagadananda Roy, Hemlal Dutta and the polymath Jagadish Chandra Bose ( see Bengali science fiction ).

The most prolific Indian author of short stories was Rabindranath Tagore, who introduced the genre to Bengali language in 1877 with " The Beggar Woman ".

Yeats was a very good friend of Indian Bengali poet Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore.

The Urdu-speaking class and the Bengali nation was forcefully removed from the affairs of West-Pakistan.

Operation Searchlight ordered by Yahya was a planned military pacification carried out by the Pakistan Army to curb the Bengali nationalist movement in erstwhile East Pakistan in March 1971 Ordered by the government in West Pakistan, this was seen as the sequel to Operation Blitz which had been launched in November 1970.

The prolonged Bengali resistance was not anticipated by Pakistani planners.

Bangladeshi speakers at the conference stated that the official Bangladeshi figure of civilian deaths was close to 300, 000, which was wrongly translated from Bengali into English as three million.

The Bengali ethnic and linguistic identity further crystallized during this period, since the whole of Bengal was united under an able and long-lasting administration.

Alongside his study of Western philosophers, he was thoroughly acquainted with Indian Sanskrit scriptures and many Bengali works.

In 1888, Vivekananda's first destination was the city of Varanasi, where he met the learned Bengali writer, Bhudev Mukhopadhyay and the saint Trailanga Swami.

This song was based on the Pakistan Army crackdown on unarmed sleeping Bengali students at Dhaka University on March 25, 1971, which ignited the prolonged nine-month Bangladesh Liberation War.