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Bengali's Thumps Up for:

1.Contribution in Academics :
Satish Ranjan Das,founder of The Doon School, Dehradun,Anil Kumar Gain,
mathematician and statistician from the University of Cambridge, Fellow of the
Royal Society.Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Statistics, founder of Indian Statistical
Institute,Arindam Chaudhuri, founder of IIPM,Derek O'Brien (quizmaster),Asia's best
known quizmaster,.
2. Contribution to Indian Cinema Directors: Satyajit Ray, Hrisikesh Mukherjee, Rituparno Ghosh, Srijit Sarkar, Ayan
Mukherjee, Aparna Sen to name a few
Actors: Jaya Bhaduri (Bhachhan),Raakhe, Sushmita sen, Rani mukherjee, moon
moon sen, the curvaceous Bipasha, aparna sen, suchitra sen, Tanuja, lisa ray,
sharmila tagore,Rahul Bose, Bengali and Bollywood actor and rugby player, Jay
Mukherjee, Ashok Kumar, Biswajit, Kishore Kumar, Mithun Chakraborty, Uttam
Kumar, Suchitra Sen, Aparna Sen, Sarmila Tagore, Rani Mukherjee, Kajol, Bipasa
Basu, Kankona Sen to name a few
Singers & Composers: Kishore Kumar, Bappi Lahiri, S.D Burman, R.D Burman, Manna
Dey, Kumar Sanu, Shaan, Shreya Ghosal,Arijit Sigh,Jeet Ganguly,Pritam to name a
few..
Bengal even today is at the forefront of Indian music. Several up and coming Hindi
rock bands too have a lot of Bengali singers and instrumentalists, while Bollywood
singing is still dominated by Bengalis.
3. Contribution to Indian Literature - Bengal has produced some world class legends
in literature field like Rabindranath Tagore, Madhusudan Dutta, Nazrul Islam, Sarat
Chandra Chatterjee, Berankim Chandra Chatterjee, Upmanyu Chatterjee , Arundhati
Roy, jhumpa lahiri to name a few.
4. Contribution to Science - Bengal has produced some world class scientist during
the Renaissance period like Jagdish Bose, Prafulla Chandra Roy
5. Contribution in Indian Freedom Struggle - Bengal has produced many prominent
National level Leaders during freedom struggle from British. To name a few: Netaji
Subhas Chandra Bose, Surendranath Bonerjee, Bipin Chandra Pal, Shyama Prasad
Mukherjee etc
6. Bengal has produced some all time great reformists like Swami Vivekananda, Raja
Rammohan Roy, Rishi Arabindo to name a few.
7. Probably maximum number of Nobel Laurels in India are from Bengal:

Rabindranath Tagore Literature,Mother Teresha Peace (tough not a bengali but

settled in Kolkata),Amartya Sen Economics.
8.Contribution in Business-Dwarkanath Tagore, known for partnership with the
British East India Company, Arup Roy Choudhury, CMD of NTPC Limited,Arundhati
Bhattacharya ,first woman director of SBI,Pratip Chaudhuri former CMD SBI,Prannoy
Roy, founder, NDTV,
Ashok Sekhar Ganguly former chairman Hindustan Unilever,Asim Ghosh former CMD
Hutch,Bhaskar Pramanik, chairman, Microsoft India,Aveek Sarkar chairman, Ananda
Bazaar Patrika.
9. Contribution in Sports10. Contribution in making films - Anurag Basu,Buddhadeb Dasgupta,Dibakar
Banerjee,Mrinal Sen,Rituporno Ghosh,Ritwik Ghatak,Sujoy Ghosh,Rituporno Ghosh,
soojit sirca to name a few.
8. Finally, how someone can ignore Bengal/Bengali's contribution in introducing
some mouth watering recipes and sweets : Bhapa Ilish (steamed Hilsa), Chingri
Malaicurry ( Prawns cooked with coconut milk), Luchi (poori), all type of ghonto's
(stir fried vegetables) and finally some famous sweets like Rosogolla (cottage
cheese in sugar syrup), Chomchom, Sandesh, Misti Doi (sweet curd), Rosomalai
(cottage cheese in thick milk syrup)
And, this list could not have been complete without a mention of the very
quintessential Bengali Mishti Doi. This light and sweet blend of milk, yogurt and
coarse brown sugar, left to ferment overnight, marks all celebrations and
auspicious occasions and rosogolla