Who is bengali

Pakistan has the third highest Bengalis population in the world with most of them migrating from Bangladesh since A considerable percentage of the Pakistani Bengali live in Karachi , and most of them have assimilated with the Urdu-speaking people. Thousands of Bengalis migrated to Pakistan during the s. The international Bengalis community has established various communities in various countries, including Italy , Singapore, Malaysia , United Kingdom, Canada , and the United States, among others.

Most of these diaspora communities have their own unique Bangla dialect. Bangla is an Indic language that is widely used in Bangladesh. Bangla is one of the most spoken languages on the planet with million total speakers. The Indian and Bangladesh national anthems were first composed in Bangla.

Regional difference in spoken Bangla constitutes a dialect chain. A refugee is a body without a place. During the agitation, I was lucky as a school-going boy to have as a neighbour the man responsible for the street theatre movement in Assam. The late Ratna Ojha, who passed away on December 31, , introduced me and my family to the Assamese culture.

He would take us to the evening kirtan — a performance of devotional songs offered to the Hindu deity, Krishna — sung with the slow rhythm of the dobas drums played with sticks or hands and bhortals cymbals made of brass at the Nam Ghar prayer house. The uniqueness of Assamese culture lies in its artistic forms. Be it the delicate vigour of the Bihu dance, or the sombre grace of folk songs about the mahout-friend he who tends elephants in the Goalpariya dialect of Assamese, sung by the iconic late singer, Pratima Barua Pandey.

The house of straw and bamboo called bhelaghar in Assamese that was burned on the eve of the Magh Bihu festival had a haunting impression on me. It symbolised the harvest season but I found it strangely frightful, despite the celebrations around it. That neighbourly love with an Assamese family was lost forever once he left with his family to live in another part of the city. While the agitation was going on, I had distanced myself from my Assamese friend who was my classmate and neighbour.

But trust me. My mother taught me to read. I trusted him. He affirmed a community that was based not on ethnicity, but ideas and sensibility. Such a community has a universal appeal, where people can transcend their cultural locations. The Nellie massacre on February 18, , that took the lives of 2, Bengali Muslim peasant families from 14 villages in central Assam within six hours, brought the Assam Movement to a halt.

It took a massacre for the nation to finally take notice of Assam, although the All India Radio did not give us news about ourselves. We learned of Nellie from the two radio channels we had depended on since — the Bengali service of the Voice of America and the BBC. Pictures were released in the press, of dead children lying in rows like fallen hyacinth. They lack a sense of belonging to the nation. They feel excluded. I have always hesitated to claim my rights as a citizen.

If belonging is ascertained by language, and is measured by arbitrary cut-off dates, I do not want to be desperate to belong. But I shall oppose this mindset that treats territory as more sacrosanct than people. By Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee. Published On 26 Feb History pulls you by your ears far more brutally than a teacher in the classroom or a parent at home When I had left home for school earlier that morning, I had seen and heard nothing that suggested anything was wrong with the world around me.

I was catapulted into history that day. A label and a slur Within a few hours of returning home much to the relief of my parents and neighbours , I learned about the preamble to this conflict. More from Features. COP Could oysters help to save Bangladesh from rising seas? Most Read. C in boroughs such as the bronx , Queens and Brookyln. And Some also live in miami,Florida but they are mostly mixed.

Some are strictly religious others are not. They come in all different skin tones but majority is either brown or tan ,minority is white liteskin about ten percent. Bengali's hate ignorance, they are down to earth people and enjoys to be with cool, free minded people who show them a lot of respect and love. Bob: From det bengali who livs across tha street frm me. Devin: Is tht bengali nikka Ali, who lok lik a replica of Yung Jeezy. Fazlur Khan - civil engineer, lead architect of the Sears Tower and the John Hancock Center,2 considered "the greatest architectural engineer of the second half of the 20th century.

The people from the Origin of Bangladesh. These people are from Eastern part of South Asia. They are mixed with various races, the most significant one is the mongoloid. Believe it or not, its true. That's why many Bengalis from Bangladesh have a very round face with high cheek bones , flat noses, small or chinky eyes , full lips, black strong hair, very short.

Bengalis usually have a tan, or a very light brown color. Some do have a more tanned yellow skin. This proves that we have mongoloid blood in us.