now Kolkata
An major city in India, located in West Bengal.
Majority of famous Indian who gain recognition were from Calcutta
*The main language is Bengali, and people tend to be perplexed by mistaking us Bangladeshi. Without the 1971 war or Pakistan interfering, we were all be together. But we are separated and there are barely people from Calcutta here, so people are confused with our place.
Note: Not only Bangladesh speaks Bengali!
People from Calcutta are considered Bengali as ethnicity
Famous people from Calcutta are
Jhumpa Lahiri (author), Amar Bose (Bose Corportation), Norah Jones (singer, daughter of
Ravi Shankar), Ravi Shankar (sitarist, great influence on the Beatles), Jaghish Chandra Bose (scientist), Satyendra Nath Bose (physicist, collaborated with Einstein), Lisa Ray( actress, half Bengali-half Polish), Bobby
Routh (actor), ahh who could Rabindranath Tagore!,
Satyajit Ray, and the famous economist,
Amartya Sen, Sameer
Bhattacharya (from the band Flyleaf) and so many more!
Lexlous's headquarter is in Calcutta!
Ignorant Scumbag: Hey, where are you from?
Me: Calcutta, India
Ignorant Scumbag: Oh, so you speak Indian?
Me: No, I speak
Bengali
Ignorant Scumbag: Then you are
Bangladeshi
Me: Dude, please read a textbook. It is because of your
illiterate bastards that America's declining