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 am half Bengali and half Marathi.
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.
I am half Bengali and half Irish by birth.
Yes, I am a Bengali but I am sorry I can't converse in Bengali.
I speak Tamil and Telugu better than Bengali.
Not many people know that I am a Bengali actually.
How can BJP be anti-Bangla when BJP founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee himself was a Bengali?
I like watching Bengali film DVDs with sub-titles.
I interviewed a lot of people in India, and I asked my mother to send me a lot of Bengali books on the tradition of dream interpretation. It's a real way for me to remember how people think about things in my culture.
