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NY NJ Bengali
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This site is about the Bengali life and experience in the US east coast and talks about any global topic that interests the global Bengali.
Recent Posts
(Un)Availability of Desh Patrika in USA
I have been an ardent reader of “Desh”, the premier Bengali literary magazine since my childhood days. As I moved to the US, I continued my subscription through the “House of Ananda”, a New York based agency of ABP (Anan...
Urhalpool October Issue is Online
The October issue of the bilingual (Bengali/English) webzine Urhalpool is now online. The latest issue includes stories by Mandakranta Sen, Samaresh Majumdar, Nabanita Deb Sen, Alolika Mukherjee, Abul Bashar and others. Serials by Sunil Gangu...
Loss of a Friend
Three months ago, when I lost my mother, I received the following email from a close friend: Tonight at the Sahitya O Alochana meeting I heard the very sad news of your mother’s passing away. I offer my heart-felt condolences to you. ...
NJ Independent South Asian Cine Fest 2009: A Brief Report
The three day long 3rd Annual New Jersey Independent South Asian Cine Fest (NJISACF) concluded on Sunday, October 11, 2009 at the Rutgers Busch Campus Student Center. The festival does not have the clout that some of the other major films festi...
Anandamandir Celebrates Kali Puja 2009
[ October 17, 2009; 6:30 pm to 11:30 pm. ] Special Event: Bansuri Concert by Steve Gorn with Dibyarka Chatterjee on Tabla Shyama Sangeet...
Herta Muller Awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature
Herta Muller, “who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed” won the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature. Ms. Müller, 56, emigrated to Germany in 1987 after years of persecu...

