the abc of DENGAll aicrron Kolakattan goes and spends a day hard(ly) at work. If he arrive at 10, wipe his forehead till 11, have a tea break at at 12.30, break for lunch at 1, smoke an unfiltered cigarette sitting down at 4 and go home at 5. It’s a hard life! B is for B of the Bengalis don’t have good bhision. In fact in Kolka spectacles ail the time. The effects of this show in the city. Bengali word for the Devil, for the worst form of evil. In the to sleep saying ‘go to bed, or Chappel will come and take yc By an ancient law every fourth Bengali Child has to be nam Debashish everywhere and trying to get creative they are | with variations like Debnath and Deboprotim thrown in. E common Bengali exclamation made famous by Aishwarya | estimated that on an average a Bengali uses eeesh 10,¢ counting eeesh and other eeesh-ish words). F is for Fee swim in rivers and seas and are a favourite food of the Br a fish market has such strong smells, with one sniff a Beng If not he will say ‘eeesh what feeesh is theesh!’ G_ is fo Boy will have a good name like Debashish or Debopratim Chonti, Dinku. While every Bengali Girl will be Paromita or Champa and Tuki. Basically your nickname is there to kill His for Harmonium. The Bengali equivalent of a rock gui Harmonium and you have the successors to The Bheatles! | with 10,000 bones which would kill any ordinary person, bu releeesh! J_ is for Jhola. No self respectina Benaali is com