Who are the Bengalis?
"The Bengali is a vain, querulous creature, self absorbed enough", as Sudeep Chakravarti puts it in his new book 'The Bengalis'.
And why, the question in the headline begs the response, should anyone other than Bengalis care? Sudeep Chakravarti, a journalist and prize winning writer of both fiction and experimental non fiction, appears to argue in the prologue to his new book, The Bengalis, that to the Bengali it is a matter of supreme indifference if anyone
