But the finance minister, Pranab Mukherjee, is her main Bengali rival, and he refuses special help.
The only record of a knighthood being given up was Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore in 1919.
John was expert in Persian and Bengali and administered a province in West Bengal.
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Yet this Bengali intellectual, still revered in India, introduced many people to yoga and meditation.
Au Bangladesh, comme en l Etat indien du Bengale occidental, on parle le bengali.
Three people were killed, the BBC Bengali service reported, with at least one dying of gunshot wounds.
No-entry signs at the back of the coalition's Baghdad headquarters are in Urdu and Bengali, not Arabic.
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Shamshad Begum was a versatile artist, singing in Hindi and the Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil and Punjabi languages.
Mahmudur Rahman of the Bengali-language Amar Desh newspaper was arrested during a raid on his office in Dhaka.
Apart from a sign in Arabic, Bengali and English, the building's exterior looks much the same as ever.
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District Commissioner of Cox's Bazar, Jaynul Bari, told the BBC Bengali service the government was already helping the victims.
Bangladesh is a moderate Islamic country, where Bengali culture is championed as much as the teachings of the Prophet.
They were about as likely to ask for the novels of Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Bengali, the local language.
Home Minister Sahara Khatun has visited the site and told the BBC Bengali service that the fire was "a tragedy".
Merina told BBC Bengali's Rakib Hasnet from her hospital bed that she had been trapped inside the rubble for four days.
Ray, who won the Academy Award for lifetime achievement in 1992, made films in Bengali, a language spoken in eastern India.
Mr Cameron should have apologised for the famine says Madhusree Mukherjee, who has written a widely praised history of the Bengali famine.
While the vast majority of these mostly Bengali speaking Muslims are peaceful, the community hasn't been entirely impervious to the siren call of fundamentalism.
The last movie by the Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray is a modest picture, a graceful domestic comedy made in a serene, leisurely classical style.
But the language is divided into Bengali and Pakistani and Arabic.
We know that the language of the research was actually in a language called Bengali which is a pretty standard one for Indian research scientists to use.
More important, last year a New York director hired me to adapt a novel by a Bengali woman about two children living in Calcutta into a screenplay.
Zuleikha Robinson is very lively as a young Bengali woman who has spent some time in Paris and carries on like a character in a scandalous French novel.
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Jamal Uddin, a reporter for the Bengali-language newspaper Gramer Kagoi was stabbed and hacked to death by a group of men in a market in Sharsha on 15 June.
Two days ago, Ghosh wrote on the micro-blogging site Twitter that he had finished shooting his latest film Satyaneshi - based on the legendary Bengali detective fictional character, Byomkesh Bakshi.
It was her mother who would have been the helpful one, taking over the kitchen, singing songs to Akash and teaching him Bengali nursery rhymes, throwing loads of laundry into the machine.
The top 10 reported languages were English, followed by Polish, Panjabi, Urdu, Bengali, Gujarati, Arabic, French, Chinese (excluding Mandarin and Cantonese, which were the 27th and 40th most commonly-used languages) and Portuguese.
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