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Meet These 10 Prominent Bengalis in America
Bangalore: "Fish and rice make a Bengali", the sentence speaks a lot about their love for these traditional mouthwatering dishes. But it is not just fish or rashugullas which personifies people from West Bengal, their love for literature, the rich history and culture makes the place and people unique and exemplary. The state can boast of producing some of the veterans in the field of literature, film and music and their saga of passion and dedication towards these fields still goes on, in their motherland as well as abroad-
Jhumpa Lahiri
Lahiri is an Indian-American author of Bengali origin, who is recognized as the first Asian to win the prestigious Pulitzer Prize. She was honoured with this achievement for her debut story collection ‘Interpreter of Maladies’ in the year 2000. Her first novel ‘The Namesake’ turned out to be a one of the bestselling novels and was also named the ‘New York Magazine Book of the Year’. She discusses the lives of Indian Americans, specifically Bengalis, in most of her fictions.
