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bengali
1. The Bengali of East Pakistan is a fact and
2. investigators found that Sharada’s Bengali was free of all English-loan words and had more
3. reincarnation because if Uttara had fraudulently learned Bengali, then she would have acquired a
4. modern version of Bengali and not the language as it had existed 150 years prior
5. Bengali speaking people were outraged by this division of their province
6. Unfortunately this division created a lot of animosity between Bengali Hindus and Muslims, which is still present today (2014)
7. Vivek Bald – Bengali Harlem And The Lost Histories Of South Asian America (2013: Harvard University Press)
8. 769) Bengali mendicant celebrated for his songs on realization
9. He was a real Bengali boy by his gene; there was no doubt about that
10. She even cooked a Bengali meal for me once
11. The sight of the Bengal chief minister in the kitchen, her crumpled sari tied in a no-nonsense knot, sweat pouring from her brow, rushing between steaming pots of Bengali delicacies was, I must confess, more than a little disconcerting
12. Mamata and the Bengali media are often locked in bitter conflict
13. When Tamil Nadu was going to the polls, he spoke to Tamil channels; when Bengal was going to elections, the preference was for regional Bengali channels; and when his home state of Gujarat was polling, Gujarati news channels were targeted
14. ‘If you know anyone who speaks good Bengali, let us know!’ one Congress leader told me jokingly
15. Besides, the secular education that McCauley introduced produced a body of Hindu reformers, mostly the Brahmans, and predominantly Bengali at that, which laid the seeds of equality in the Indian soil at long last
16. Why didn’t Pakistan fail them by not letting them feel at home in the homeland of the Musalmans of Hindustan that it was supposed to be? So also, the Bihari Musalmans, though they were cohorts with the Punjabi Musalmans in the massacre of the Bengali Musalmans in the then East Pakistan, yet fail to get entry visas into what was left as Pakistan
17. Why at the dawn of the ‘original partition’, even before the celebrations for having seen the back of the hated Hindu Bengalis were over, the ugly reality that is the Punjabi Musalmans stared the Bengali Musalman in his face as the Islamic creed of equality before Allah was of no avail to the poor Bengalis in the Pakistani version of Islamic democracy! And in the hour of the Bengali glory, Bhutto’s political greed and the Punjabi fauzis’ prejudice to their dark skin upstaged their right to have their man, Mujibur Rahaman, as the head the Islamic Pakistan
18. Their agitation for their democratic right to see Mujibur as the Prime Minister of Pakistan made the Bengali Musalmans appear like idolaters to the Generals of Pakistan, and they treated them likewise – massacring the men and raping their women
19. Where did the hapless Bengali Musalmans flee to escape from the repression of their fellow Musalmans than to Hindustan! It is another matter though that all this was ‘the Godsend’ to India to grind its own Pakistani axe in helping the oppressed Bengali Musalmans’ freedom struggle
20. In what was a unique instance in the Islamic saga, so as to oust their Punjabi Muslaman brethren, the Bengali Musalmans welcomed the Hindu kafirs into their dar-ul-Islam! Of course, India did oblige them, and Bangladesh came into being, and this one gesture could have been sufficient for the Bangladeshi Musalmans to shed their old Hindu hatred and hold the hand of eternal friendship to the Indians
21. Before long, the initial euphoria of the Hindu-Muslim bhai-bhai, occasioned by their Bengali sense of gratitude, gave way to the Indian animosity brought to the fore by their Musalman upbringing on the staple diet of Hindu hatred, which goaded them to murder their own savior, Mujibur, perceived to be India friendly, and to wipe out his kith and kin in cold blood to boot
22. the way a poor Bengali woman would do
23. In an interview with the BBC Bengali service, she warned that unless the government and the international community took action over the next two months, the number of children severely affected could approach one million
24. [125] I personally know a Bengali Muslim who has translated Sanskrit texts to English (different from the Sanskrit scholar mentioned earlier) and is simultaneously very proud of his faith, though he practises a very heterodox version of the same, but I also know many Muslims who follow their scriptures taking them literally and are very tolerant and peace-loving (these are the ‘mainstream Muslims’ referred to earlier and their version of tolerance is of the ‘live and let live’ variety but not of embracing beliefs and practices of others; in other words, they may not accept prasad from a Hindu temple or fold their hands there but won’t support killing innocent people of other faiths and would have no problem in befriending non-Muslims either), considering the same to be an integral part of being a true Muslim, and the same is true for mainstream Christians and mainstream Jews in their attitude towards other religions and their adherents
