Cataloguing failures and frustrations of Bengalis, their sense of self, culture, and radical and reactionary politics Portraits of a people are difficult to pull off, unless attempted with love, irony, and aplomb. Sudeep Chakravarti does not fall short on these counts in his whirlwind cultural, social and political history of the Bengalis, a community as … Continue reading The Bengalis: A Portrait of a Community review: A people and its contradictions