Wednesday, April 14, 2004

Greatest Bengali

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3623345.stm

Listeners of the BBC's Bengali service have voted Bangladesh's first president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the "Greatest Bengali of All Time". Sheikh Mujibur, assassinated in 1975, easily beat Nobel prize-winning poet and playwright Rabindranath Tagore.

My personal favorites: Vivekananda & Netaji were 8th and 5th respectively. And of course Jagadish Bose was 7th.