This is another excerpt from a material I read —
“There is some corner of a foreign field/ Which is forever Bengali.”
Ki nonsense kotha. It’s not a corner, it’s the whole expanse.
It’s true. Suddenly the Bengalis are everywhere. So many, taking over so much, in so many places that I wonder if there are any [...]

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This is an excerpt of something I was fwd-ed to by a friend …
When a son is born into a Bengali household, he is gifted with a
resonant, sonorous name. Bengali names are wonderful things. They
convey majesty and power. A man with a name like Prasenjit, Arunabha
or Sukanta is a man who will walk with his [...]

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A SHORT STORY
[SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2001]
Lunar News Agency
BANGALITOLA (Lunar Colony), Oct. 22, 3001: Dipankar Samaddar is a happy
lunie today. The soft-spoken mayor-in-council, social development,
Lunar Residents’ Representative Corporation, Bangalitola, and the organiser
of the Chandro Sanskriti Sammelan (CSS), has finally made Durga Puja
possible in the rarefied atmosphere of the Moon.
Addressing a crowded press conference at the [...]

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