Cast Karuna Banerji, Shanti Gupta

Varanasi. Year 1327 (Bengali calendar)

The inauguration is on Monday, Bengali New Year's Day.

Let me see Bengal has tigers, too

The Bengali names derives from its origins in the Bengali calendar year 1176.

In the heart of Yangon, the golden dome of the Sule Pagoda stands just across the street from the minarets of the Bengali Mosque.

The Indian roller ( Coracias benghalensis ), is a member of the roller family of birds.

Religion has always been a strong part of identity, but this has varied at different times.

In the east, there was a strong sense of being Bengali, and a sizeable Hindu minority continued to live in the province.

Medieval Bengali literature was often either religious (for example, Chandidas), or adapted from other languages (for example, Alaol).

Egypt, in the great Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore s memorable words, is the land where the head is (now) held high and the mind is (now) without fear The consequences will be vast.

Dissatisfaction with the central government over economic and cultural issues continued to rise through the next decade, during which the Awami League emerged as the political voice of the Bengali speaking population.

Until recently, Muslim fundamentalists were discredited, because militias such as al Badr and Razakar had supported atrocities against civilians during the civil war of 1971.

The Bengal famine of 1770 (Bengali ৭৬ এর মন বন তর, Chhiattōrer monnōntór lit The Famine of '76 ) was a catastrophic famine between 1769 and 1773 (1176 to 1180 in the Bengali calendar) that affected the lower Gangetic plain of India.

Although Myanmar is an overwhelmingly Buddhist country, dozens of religious and ethnic communities have long lived there side by side. In the heart of Yangon, the golden dome of the Sule Pagoda stands just across the street from the minarets of the Bengali Mosque.