While doing some blogsurfing, I came across this somewhat catty vitriol on someone’s page ( a lady’s)
Now the one who really stood out was this woman called Vijaya Balan (think that was her name). Apparently, she’s Mallu, but she really looked like a quintessentially Bengali woman. Wore her sexuality on her sleeve. You know what Bengali women, especially from Calcutta, are like? Overtly sexual — it’s not like they dress like Mallika Sherawat or something. On the contrary, they’ll wear these rather ethnic saris and big bindis but then then they’ll arch their bodies in this overly seductive manner and speak in this low breathy manner. It’s like a perpetual come hither look on their face. And this woman got that so perfectly — her champagne voice, the quiet drawl, the swing of the hips. Yikes! And to think men are suckers for that kind of crap!
Wow ! Here I am, a Bong guy who grew up in Kolkata and I must confess, I never knew that *all* Bongo ladies walked with a seductive swaying of the hips and talked in hushed whispers while arching their backs.
Now it very well maybe that because of my personal charisma and drop-dead good looks, Bengali ladies, who would be overtly feminine in front of other guys, adopted their most masculine traits in my presence.
Truth be told….I understand the blogger’s point. The problem is that she makes a gross generalization which is interesting mainly because this is not the first time I have heard it. From more than one non-Bengali friend, I have heard this “Bong babes are hot” refrain——–I remember watching “Aye Uri Uri” from Saathiya amidst a crowd of desis at Stonybrook when a guy from UP, no doubt inspired by Rani Mukherjee’s bedroom antics with Vivek Oberoi, whispered to me (without any come-hither arching of his back may I add) that
“Dada, I have to hand it to you. Bengali girls are the BEST.”
I sighed. Growing up in Calcutta, we had a similar fascination for Punjabi girls—–according to urban legend, Punjabi girls had figures to die for, knew the art of seduction, had malleable morals and in general never said “no” to anything.
The reason I pined for Punjabi girls was because historically the Bengali girls I interacted with were unfailingly brusque, boring from a hormonal standpoint, stand-offish and about as hot as last week’s leftovers. They were good friends and nice people…..but came nowhere near the ultra-feminine Bengali lady stereotype.
But again this was just based on my limited interaction with girls (My batch in Computer Science at Jadavpur Univ had 55 guys and 1 girl)——mostly girls whom I knew from high school who were also doing their engineering at JU.
And then I got introduced to some girls from across the jheel (rivulet)—-the Arts campus. Immediately, I noticed the difference. Intensely feminine, lispy smiles, a curl of hair falling seductively on the forehead, whisps of perfume and yes sometimes the arching of the back, the slanting of the head, and the entire-damsel-in-distress-waiting-to-be-rescued-by-knight-in-shining-armour routine.
Coyness. And boldness. But the boldness was not obtrusive enough so as to be considered vulgar —a kind of subterranean well of passion which you knew would gush out only if you knew how to press the proper buttons. In other words—– “I am game for anything if you know how to play”.
At the same time, my female Bengali friends who were studying for engineering wore outlandish glasses, sneakers with salwar kameezes, wanted to discuss Morris Mano’s digital logic and thought that seduction was a special kind of conduction.
Litmus test for hotness. Watch them dance.
The engineering girl would usually sit it out. The ones that liked to dance would do so with the grace of Sunny Deol stomping out cockroaches in “Yara O Yara”( from Jeet), their arms pointing heavenwards like Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and their bodies moving up and down like turbines producing hydel power. The true embodiment of “Dance like noone is watching.”
The “arts” girl. Different story. Sinuous like a snake, rhythmic like heartbeats with a tossed glance to see who is watching and a knowing expression when her eyes meet with an attractive member of the opposite sex
. These people don’t just dance with their bodies, they dance with their smiles.
And they know the “power of the sari”—-the sexiest garment ever invented.
Which brings me to my verdict on the whole hotness issue.
Bengali girls cannot generically be considered as experts in the art of making men mad with lust. It’s only girls who come from specific backgrounds, who attended specific educational institutions and who have similar-minded friends that satisfy, to a certain extent, the stereotype. And I suspect that girls from other parts of India, who fit into the same cultural-moral-educational context, are equally “Bong-ish.”
However there is another grain of truth in the statement of the blogger above. Bengali girls from outside Kolkata, called Probasi Bengalis, are very different, by and large from the Kolkata Bengali girl. Without resorting to simplifying generalizations, my immense experience (yeah right !) dealing with both these “tribes” lead me to conclude that Probasi Bengalis are far more conservative (not politically of course…this conservatism is in reference to issues guys really care about) than their Kolkata sisters.
A typical Probasi Bengali girl has a rather low opinion of the Kolkata girl—-according to them they are “neka” (ie artifically feminine and intentionally asinine), they are fashion disasters ( overtly made up, put oversized flowers in their hair) and they are usually overweight and at the same time comfortable about their extra pounds. They also shamelessly play upto guys.
In response to this attack, I defend my fellow Kolkatans by pointing out the difference between the Science/Engineering girls and the Arts girls and the dangers of typecasting.
Now wait….am I not making the same mistake about Probasi Bengali girls—-surely I cant paint them all with the same brush. Yes perhaps you are right—-but in my experience even Probasi Bengali girls who have had an “Artsy” background are quite a bit more reserved that what I would like them to be.
There can be several explanations for this but I will not attempt to explain anything that relates to the “female character”. Because I live my life by a simple code. And that is:
“Striyascharitram deba na jananti kuto manushya”
which roughly translates from Sanksrit into
“Even God does not understand women……what chance do mere mortals have?”
ok….my break from labwork was worth it! haha :-))
I’ll agree with every thing you said, and this can also be transported to any part of the country (replacing the local girls with girls from “stateof choice X”).
I’ll take offence to only one part….Vidya Balan is not Mallu, she’s Tam (Palaghat Iyer, part of the large Tam community living in Kerala….I’m just standing up for a fellow tam, especially one who’s gorgeous…:-))
It was the blog (from where I extracted the first part) that made Vidya Balan a Mallu.
Of course I did not know her origins myself and now am suitably englightened.
Though I dont possess an iota of authority on analyzing and adding to the research done, must confess that being a Probasi myself, it is mostly to do with the atmospehere one grows up in.
Arnab, its high time you have a female alter ego.
Among the blogerati, isnt there anyone to paint the other half of the picture !!!
Regards,
Aniruddha Dutta
This was really well put and I couldnt help but laugh while reading it :)) and I also couldnt help but remember few of those JU arts girls we knew in common and their “nekami” as you put it..
(which by the way we did cherish a lot at times 
)
And from my own experience of bengali girls (and yeah.. i did have my fair share) they were far from the stereo type, or at least they used to be. Finally, I do agree that its the upbringing and the environment one grows up in, more than the mother toungue factor that defines one’s cultural traits. So bengali or not, in calcutta or not, “hot” girls shall stay “hot”
lovely read…vidya balan hmm ..she did do a good job in the movie.didnt seem like a first timer at all.Also I didnt know which side o defend since iam part of both camps…I can pick holes in both kinda women
two observations I have:
1)this world is full of sterepotypes
2) Hotness is hotness …is hotness !!!Its not governed by looks alone or where one comes from ..its got to do with attitude(with a captial A)..like u said:P
Arnab..very nicely put…
I too have heard this refrain: “Bong women are hot” innumerable times from non-bong colleagues here in Bangalore..tho’ I haven’t been able to figure out what is it that makes them so. Simply coz here,in B’lore, even the most pati bangali (the mashimas,pishimas and their offsprings/offsprings in-law — those who are domiciled and those who come avisiting) sheds her 12 yard cloth that supposedly keeps her izzat under wraps, and dons the bare-all-dare all western outfits (with a bindi,shakha,pola et al). This, irrespective of their vital statistics, mind you. And believe me, not all of them look “hot”! Definitely not with those accessories!
The only time they again remember their so-called roots is during Durga Pujo…out come the best saris (apparently, the only dress that make them “hot”, according to the non-bongs), all the gold jewellery and other accessories that go with the 12 yards and all their love for the probashi Bangali community. And they do walk with a slight sway of their hips and talk in the naeka singsong tune and pout their lips(uufff Oshojhyo!). So is this hot?
Of course, I won’t complain about the “hot hot” luchi mangsho or the malpoa that they kindly bring for our palatal delights, only during the pujos! For poor souls like us who don’t always get to go home during pujo, as they say: naimamar theke kanamama bhalo !
its not the saree , the bindi , or the jelery , but the way the bong women speak , even metrocized women will still carry a slight bong accent , the way they speak seems so very very mishti to non bongs, so childlike , so innocent yet calling towards them , ah the moon moon sens & the mousmi chatterjees of yesteryear & the rani mukherjees of today have created a deep impression on the minds of nonbongs
@Ani—my female alter ego…working on it
@Joy—you are in the unique position of having known and observed, first hand, the sample points I used to deduce my hypothesis.
@Meenal —-yes as I said
@Gangadhar— Thanks.
@Priya—Oh god…those horrifying images of behenjis trying to be modern….with fat oozing out like “moida”.
@Anon—Oooh so thats why Ash says “Isshhh” at the drop of a hat in Devdas and Rani Mukherjee does the most horrible recitation of Jibananda *ever* in “Hey Ram” with the “dheere dheere dhuke jacche” coinciding with an unfortunate visual…….and Rimi Sen interspersing her Hindi with Bengali words in a sing-song voice in “Dhoom”
GreatBong ruminating over other bongs…makes for a good read..you have a way with these topics..don’t you?
This reminds me, that I had written you a long mail, eons back, which went unreplied.(*just wondering whether you got it or not?*)
Came here from Amit Varma’s! hmmm.. good analysis, if I may say so. And what you say is true. In Tam land, we have this saying that roughly translates into it more better known equivalent - Grass’s always greener on the other side! Where I come from Mallu gals are the “ultimate babes”!
Came here via India Uncut…
An important topic analysed with full academic rigour. My salutations.
awesome post…
Somethings non-Bong guys would do well to remember is that Sushmita Sen and Kajol and Rani Mukherjee are all Probashi Bongs…while only Bipasha , Riya and Raima from the current lot of Hindi heroines are Kolkata Bong girls
Another thing I remember is that “neka”-ness of Bong girls that non-Bong males happen to find “oh-so-seductive” …and Bong guys (whether Probashi or not!) always find so turn-offish !
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Hilarious post, O Great Bong ! Nearly fell of my chair laughing at the “dance” descriptions !!
Honestly, I had no ideas that guys find girls froma specific state hot … ahem, anyone think oriya girls are hot ??
I would say that”hot-ness” definitely has to do with the attitude of the women, which in turn is tied in with up-bringing education, and culture…and the fascination with “hot” women from far lands has a lot to do with xeno-philia
As long as we are speaking in generalizations, i can sort of relate to what your friend says. maybe not “hot”, but certainly “interesting”.. and in this sense, probashi girls tend to be even more so. (Cal-bong girls are sometimes too neka).
lol
So artsy girls hot / engineering not isn’t a stereotype. Hmmm…
BTW, I am copy-pasting an email regarding IIT guys:
> but seriously… iit?
> If shabby, unkempt and testosterone-high is your idea of a cool guy, good
> luck to you.
The reason I pined for Punjabi girls was because historically the Bengali girls I interacted with were unfailingly brusque, boring from a hormonal standpoint, stand-offish and about as hot as last week’s leftovers.
Poetry. Nearly priceless.
since we are into generalisations, I must it is not only Bong guys who find ‘neka’ girls irritating.
they can be quite…what was the word asinine, yes GreatBong- though “intentionally asinine”? please elaborate….
During my college days in Kolkata, I was told all it took to ‘floor’ bong ‘chics’ was a invitation to have a plate of chowmein…when that didnt work I tried other cuisines but alas the results were the same…thus due to my ‘in depth’ knowledge of bong girls all I can I add to the discussion is that it will take a few more centuries to figure bong(d) girls out!
Oh so hilarious, Arnab! But whatever you say - Bengali girls are hot!
All the Bong girls I know are quite beautiful - dark spotless skin, doe-like eyes, thick hair; obviously, I’m quite jealous of them all.
Perhaps, when people say that Bong chicks are hot, they mean that they are good-looking, not that they are the “come-hither” type. Just a thought. Nice post, btw.. 
Thanks Amit Verma
Good analysis man,
My opinion(as i m from Assam) Go to Siliguri ,malda,vardhman, then one will come 2 know how Bongs Invite guys with gestures.
This blog’s got a subtle way of being funny, but the part about ‘Probasi Bong’ girls being conservative…naah…
Why do I say so?
‘Coz am a ‘probasi’ Bengali female myself. And Great Bong, you probably need more to back up this view of ‘probasi’ alias conservative, because I also happen to regard this term labelled upon us as politically incorrect.:P
Living in canada, I have known Bong girls here, and ‘probasi’ ones back home in India to be anything but conservative. Infact, they sometimes are way too much of the stuff on the other side of the scale!
I have met some of Kolkata’s Bengali girls,and personally, I have never found anything to look down upon in them. They are better versed with Bengali culture, and
on the contrary, I found much of their outlook to be far more orthodox than any ‘probasi’ Bengali girl would ever have.
Also,you suspecting that “girls from other parts of India, who fit into the same cultural-moral-educational context, are equally “Bong-ish.”(”the ultra-feminine Bengali lady stereotype” reference, that is)may not always be true. Having attended an all-girls’ boarding school in the Doon valley, where girls spend eight years of their malleable lives, I noticed an interesting fact that, among a potpourri of girls from various states in India, (where the major chunk of girls from a particular community in that school were Punjabis)the Bengali ones always did stand apart from the rest; if not from the ‘hotness’ point of view, (my standing in this category is questionable…haha)it would almost always be an exceptional musical or artistic talent. And ofcourse, the ‘typical Bong face’ could always be made out by our non-Bong counterparts. It was always, and forever will be, the eyes…
Hey, quite humorous. Particularly, the bit bong males’ drooling over Punjabi females. ho ho ho …Quite hilarious. Anyway I object to your general comment “catty vitriol” in the beginning. This is quite of a profound encomium for the breezy bong babes. Ain’t they? Rememeber “banglair bodhu ..buuk bhora d***…”, a parody not composed by any mallu or gujju…
@priya:Yes!! It is (to the Q “Is this hot?”). I presume you did not yet reach your teens. When you grow up like those pishima masima you will find the answer yourself)
@Akash…it is banglar bodhu buk bhora modhu…and it was composed by Rabindranth in “Du Bigha Jameen”
@greatbong: I was a bit disappointed. I did not want to be explicit. A rhyme with “modhu” …dudu..Please don’t ask what it means. I remember that the full parody of the original poem, written and subsequently revised, modified and extended by an unknown number of admirers of bong beauties over a period of time (in the same way as ‘mahayan’ caught on), used to buzz around the campus. Of course this is a cheap example of the culture of bongo-bodhu-bandana. The jokes and the obscenity apart, from my personal experience, I could say that the bengali girls some how captivated the fantasy, imagination and, of course, the respect of menfolks in other parts of India too. On the other hand, in general, surprisingly, bong boys rushed across the border of bengal only when they have been titillated by that ‘oomph’ factor. Indeed, punjabi gudi’s often filled this bill in this regard but never beyond. This is solely my personal unsubstantiated opinion after rubbing shoulders with many Indians in various parts of India and abroad. The plausible reasons for this positive bias, among many others, may be the worshipping of many female goddesses such as Durga, Kali, Saraswati etc. across the entire India ( I am very curious to know the mythological take on how much bengalee they are) and also some of the female fictional characters being immortalized by many bengali writers, (for example, Parvati in Devdas) . In conclusion, I fully agree with you that, even if there is any bongo-nari mania among a group of people, this is simply because of some myths being created slowly over a long time. It is ridiculous to swallow this phenomenon as something endemic.
@Akash,
Neither did I and nor did Rabindranath want to be…its just the way you interpret it. And yes you did not have to spell it out..I understood. The only reason I mentioned it was that the d..part may be the parody but the entire line is not.
Now Mahayan…yes thats explicit.
Yo greatbong!
like m visitng ur site agn…how about a new blog dude! Ur humor in ur writing is awesome!
Yo Ananya…there’s a lot of funny (or I think is funny) in the archives….and a few have found
this funny
well this is cool. u got one part very very right abt the engg girls, since i drink from the same well, i have a idea what its like… For u to meet others it was across the jheel, while for me, its 15 kms across to the north campus
Greatbong, I bow to thee and your definition and categorisation of bongs vs punjabis; engg girls vs arts girls.
I found the dance description especially funny and can’t stop laughing over it. and i am at work. help!
I think its a stupid writeup !!!
Humor is not visible to me and the he has no point in the whole thing except for “Plz do not generalize” against the statistically very true statement he is trying to prove wrong !!
Bong babes do all that is written. They do it all the time !
If this guy is a guy .. i think he is just another one of the frust engineering grads .
If its a girl.. then ofcourse its explanable. None other is hot for them .. lesbians apart.
Yes you are amazingly perceptive…I am a frust engineering guy..now what amazes me is how you came to this startling conclusion which everyone else seemed to have missed….
And no Rohit I am not a girl….though some may say I am a lesbian
But greatbong (excuse the hip-hop english in my last comment),a lesbian is a gay GIRL
IMHO…a hetereosexual man appreciates heterosexual sex.(ie man and a woman)
A “lesbian man” appreciates anything involving *at least* one woman.
Difference..yes.
Really loved the descriptions being from Cal myself and could so identify with all of it.
Yes, have heard the “Bong women are so hot and sexy” so many times now across geographies that have stopped reacting to it now.
Just wanted to add to that with a story from Bombay which I heard from a colleague; “Bombay me baarish aur ladki se bachke rehna.”
All wide-eyed:”Kyo?”
“Kyunki kabhi bhi aa sakti hai aur kabhi bhi jaa sakti hai”
Again, someone mentioned it but the dangers of stereotyping would be clear to all those who have discovered diamonds in the morass of stereotypes and left to marvel about how such uniqueness could thrive amongst such ubiquity.
Regards,
Arjun Chatterjee,
Mumbai.
Now,now..I am sure me and many of my other bong sistah’s (the probasi variety as well as the rest!) would only be too happy to bask in the glory of such a distinction such as “Bong women are hot”..and so on.I happen to belong to the same clan (the Bong clan I mean), and can be narrowed down further into Rani Mukherjee’s clan as well, however, strictly by virtue of my last name that I share with her ; I feel indebted to the lovely lady for undoing (even marginally) the harm that her other famous Mukherjee precedents, namely the Joy and Pranab variety have inflicted, by a painting gorgeous picture of Bengali women and bringing about a very welcome myth about them.
That said, I am not one for generalizations..I do agree that certainly not all Bong women are hot or attractive or can be expected to exhibit any Rani Mukherjee’ish traits..that would be too much to live up to and a very tough act to follow ! I do beleive however that Bong girls
are more open about their sexuality and this could be restricted to the artsy kind, I dont refute that, but that is precisely what gives statistical truth to my claim.
I lived in Baroda for a (painfully) long time and met many Bong women from Shanti niketan at the Baroda Fine arts faculty, they were more open about their sexuality than most women from other parts of India, and I can vouch for that being a Probasi Bong myself.I met more non-bong women than bong.Being open about your sexuality,India or not, is more about independence and guts than beauty;Now I know my MCP buddies may wave off that truth with an air of indifference, I feel greatbong’s experiences with “hormonally challenged” Bong women comes from a smaller sampling of Bong girls..Infact I have often seen that regardless of their conservative upbringing (which by the way Bong parents are particularly good at!My dear Greabong will happily vouch for that),many women from Calcutta look forward to sexually open activities.Now lets extend this,(I am trying not to make this post a porn write up!),if women are sexual, they would find ways entice an audience, of their choosing ofcourse !So for the not very genetically endowed bong ladies… one expects, that more often than not, with the correct accessories ,little bit effort and a lot of will,the overtly sexual lot might actually make it,get it all,the sway,the come-hither glance,the works !
Alright! Bubli pulls herself onto my blog for the second time. And who better than you to comment on this post—having once heard the “Probasi” line during a pickup attempt….
many women from Calcutta look forward to sexually open activities.
Where were these women during my college days…argh…possibly in the Fine Arts section at Baroda…double argh
And your qualifications for making such asinine comments are? Most of my male classmates — yes, I am one of those engineering girls — were not even worth looking at, let alone worth talking to. Shy to the point of being rude - if you ask them which direction the classroom is, they would be too shy to look up and answer; no sense of humor; extremely full of themselves, not to mention sexist to the extreme degree — that just about sums up almost all of my classmates. Very few exceptions. For once you dudes need to turn around, forget the ridiculous ideas of yourselves that you have, and look at yourselves from the view point of other people.
Anon…dude…lighten up and get a life….
and look at yourselves from the view point of other people.
Nice words to live by…now apply it on your anonymous self. Since *all* your classmates seemed so horrible, maybe the fault lay with you…remember to a madman the entire world appears mad….
Sucks doesnt it?
funnny post….
n thats true bongs (babes or not )know how to wear the sari…achha i dint know this…we walk with a swaying movement of the hips?????? n bong women talk in whispers????? i thot no other people had such loud voiced women?????
well yes engg men ar rather terrible looking and slightly perverted not all but many …( i have reason to now being a third yr engg student…)
i agree about bong women being more open about thier sexuality tho … an that applies to both artsy as well as engg types….i have to say most of us dress more conservatively than the typical punjabi or marwari girls but v are much less orthodox than they r abt their sexuality ………n well if v r subtle y so much the better…..ar by subtelity i dont mean nyakamo…..i cant honestly blive men find moon moon sen type nyakamo attractive…
Great post, O great bong - being from the JU arts campus I must say it is immensely flattering to know that one was supposed to look like one had a ’subterranean well of passion’ around the place somewhere. From our point of view, it was always more interesting to go for a walk across the jheel (for a perfectly legitimate excuse of course!) and the engineering guys always scored over the arts and sciences variety.
What really puzzled me though was why guys who seemed perfectly normal when seen from afar became tongue-tied, wide-eyed, drooling-at-the-mouth (ok I’m joking!), sub human species at closer proximity…it was a constant case of anticipation and deflation.
Rather interseting to notice how the bengali women are now days.
the sari i never would have believed it could be synonymied with sexy.
Well I suppose with the kind of modernistic sarees, indeed some glaringly attractive, others on the marge of vulgarity sometimes, and sometimes depending on the person wearing them lustful and seductive, the women of bengal have come to be considered the hottest.
But personally in my youth well i am not very old yet, but still those days of vigour are long gone as i sit idle in an office, i found beauty in the long and slim figures of the punjabi girls, and bengalis were rather sweet looking, never of gorgeous kind, as their face were round and thie hair curling behind them as they occasionally opened them letting it free for a few delightful instances form the wind to amuse itself.
i haven’t been to kolkata for a while maybe that’s why i am not aware of the changes in the youth of bengal today
Whoa!
).
hahaha. Mate, you’re God~ (I’m sure bong girls are very religious, or are they
I’ve spend a couple of years of my life in cal.. and i agree on evthing you say! (my interactions, though, .. that’s another story
)
keep blogging!
regards,
bhuvan. (as opposed to bhuboun).
hey man!!
landed on your blog thorugh the bollywood bakwaas community..
I definitely agree with your point and being here at IITK i am one of the 400 sufferers of the great art n science divide in the feminine section of the scoiety.
The only reprieve we get is during $ golden days of Antaragni our cul fest where our main motto is to invite as amny DElhi+girl+arts colleges as we can for the eyes of the junta here. The success of teh cul fest is solely dependent and is measured in terms of quantity and quality of fairer sex present in the campus.
thank god the phenomenon is universal.
Fun article, mostly generalizations…being a probasi bong myself I choose to disagree with the author, not all probasi bongs are conservative, in fact, some of them are brought up in rather liberal households (mine is one amazing mix of conservatism and liberalism) and some end up being super liberal like me(now I am not here to argue abt the merit/demerits of being so). Now abt Bong men, I have dated a few of them, they are mostly short- moderate height (comon 5′8″ inches is NOT tall) and if you are unlucky will sport an ungainly moustache! (In fact, I have seen Bong rock bands with all its members sporting a mile high traditional “Dada” moustache — Rock & Roll sex god image!)
A bengali male might eventually be a victim of alopecia, but the moustache will persist unless pursued relentlessly by females (crushes, girlfriends, wives genre) important to the Bong male. Some of them, will be nerds and the others the will be “not-going-anywhere-much-in-life” type. Regardless of their catergorization, they are bound to sexually “frustu” The nerd will not have time to take you for time consuming dates, because he will have to get into IIT or die. The loafer will take you to the movies more than willingly. So, what is a Bong girl to do? Basically adopt the simple strategy which many have used successfully in the past — date a loafer kind (the one who is not going anywhere much in life) and finally when Mr Nerd has gotten in and out of IIT with flying color…marry him. That way you get the best of both worlds, all the nice dates and a nice IIT husband for arm candy!
This advice might seem a little too mercenary for some, so feel free to ignore it.
Now abt Bong men, I have dated a few of them and lived with them all my life, they are mostly short-moderate height (comon 5′8″ inches is NOT tall) and if you are unlucky will sport an ungainly moustache! (In fact, I have seen Bong rock bands with *all* its members sporting a mile high traditional “Dada” moustache — Rock & Roll sex god image!)
A bengali male might eventually be a victim of alopecia, but the moustache will persist unless pursued relentlessly by females (crushes, girlfriends, wives genre) important to the Bong male. Some of them, will be nerds and the others the will be “not-going-anywhere-much-in-life” type. Regardless of their catergorization, they are bound to sexually “frustu” The nerd will not have time to take you for time consuming dates, because he will have to get into IIT or die. The loafer will take you to the movies more than willingly. So, what is a Bong girl to do? Basically adopt the simple strategy which many have used successfully in the past — date a loafer kind (the one who is not going anywhere much in life) and finally when Mr Nerd has gotten in and out of IIT with flying color…marry him. That way you get the best of both worlds, all the nice dates and a nice IIT husband for arm candy!
This advice might seem a little too mercenary for some, so feel free to ignore it.
Now abt Bong men, I have dated a few of them, they are mostly short- moderate height (comon 5′8″ inches is NOT tall) and if you are unlucky will sport an ungainly moustache! (In fact, I have seen Bong rock bands with all its members sporting a mile high traditional “Dada” moustache — Rock & Roll sex god image!)
A bengali male might eventually be a victim of alopecia, but the moustache will persist unless pursued relentlessly by females (crushes, girlfriends, wives genre) important to the Bong male. Some of them, will be nerds and the others the will be “not-going-anywhere-much-in-life” type. Regardless of their catergorization, they are bound to sexually “frustu” The nerd will not have time to take you for time consuming dates, because he will have to get into IIT or die. The loafer will take you to the movies more than willingly. So, what is a Bong girl to do? Basically adopt the simple strategy which many have used successfully in the past — date a loafer kind (the one who is not going anywhere much in life) and finally when Mr Nerd has gotten in and out of IIT with flying color…marry him. That way you get the best of both worlds, all the nice dates and a nice IIT husband for arm candy!
If this advice seems a little too mercenary for you, so feel free to ignore it.
why bong girls have to smoke cigerette…go to nandan or watch any bong serial u will find cigerette smoking girls…do they want to show that they are challenging the world…kind of I care two hoots..jamane ko dikhana hai…hum bangali auro se age hain…bachoo bidi pike koee age nahi hota..
bong women have shorter necks/throats, when compared to women from other parts of india. and the hiss like snakes ( sometimes with even a smile on their lips). dangerous creatures folks! beware!
Great Bongis right generalisations r rife! I m from JU, Frustu Engg JU infact. I thought Gujju gals r hot, and also Maharashtrian gals, but few years in Gujjuland & Maratha land made me realise gals r gals, some r cool, some cold, some warm and some definitely HOT!!!
I’m pretty probashi… don’t think I’m so conservative. But yes, my years at JU tell me Bong girls are nyaka. Too many of them. And the men have mother-complexes. I dated the only two who didn’t!
Nice, especially that touch of inferring the types of Bong femininity through the JU prism. I’d worked for 1 year after my MCA in a project at the CSE department of JU, and I remember going over to the Arts department with my colleague during lunch-break for some much-needed eyeball-flexing.
Nice, especially that touch of inferring the types of Bong femininity through the JU prism. I’d worked for 1 year after my MCA in a project at the CSE department of JU, and I remember going over to the Arts department with my colleague during lunch-break for some much-needed eyeball-flexing.
If we’re done analyzing the feminity of the Bong woman/girl, it may be worthwhile to turn to analyzing the feminity of Bong men! Seriously, why are so many Bengali men growing up to be like Biswajit and Ajit Panja?
It’s a real good thing to discuss
about the fig of indian women considering today’s MTV culture.
Yes, it’s true about bipasa bose/rani alll are bongs, but all bongs are not bipasa .
Awesome! You are the king !
i would rate the marwaris of howrah at numerous rungs above the bong women, when it comes to seductiveness.
hey check 16.4.2006’s anandabazaar patrika.
“The engineering girl would usually sit it out. The ones that liked to dance would do so with the grace of Sunny Deol stomping out cockroaches in “Yara O Yaraâ€( from Jeet), their arms pointing heavenwards like Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and their bodies moving up and down like turbines producing hydel power. The true embodiment of “Dance like noone is watching.†”
:-)) Boss, single piece of engineered mayhem designed to get the sides aching,
darn, how do you get the laughter smiley
GREAT BONG…and all the others who have replied…this topic seems painfully researched for both sides…me, a bong guy completed engg and working and already had a mini tour of india. what i have seen is that girls, bong or not, always size up the guy in front of them and behave accordingly. Though all over india, there is a general trend(dunno why) that better looking girls always go for the ARTS department. maybe for engg , they decide on brains and decide to forego the beauty [:)]
Hey,
I’ve been hearing a lot about this “Mahayan” poem. Could someone please send the text across to me? I am meeting some old bong friends this weekend and it might be a great way to kick off the jalsa.
Dude, as someone who has lived in Calcutta for a year and a half (picking up enough of a smattering of the local lingo to impress non-Bongs at least) and someone who seriously considers Bengal his spiritual homeland, your post was hurtful to me. BONG WOMEN ARE HOT!
Case in point: Moon moon Sen. She could wear a nine yard sari and an entire garden in her hair, but every time she opens her mouth and utters a throaty syllable, just the right balance between a moan and a word, my pulse skyrockets! Her children unfortunately haven’t inherited any of her sexiness, sigh….
As much as I agree with you about the engineering shemale crowd with their buck teeth, soda glasses and quizzing fetish, in my brief period in your homeland, I met enough Oinkies and Kamolikas to have a favourably high impression about their sexiness. So be warned!
like to make girl for friendship
Interesting discussion! As a Bengali girl born and brought up in London, I’ve heard about this fascination with Bengali girls increasingly through my avid watching of Zee TV and the like! Personally, I do think there is something uniquely beautiful about the eyes of Bengali girls and the sort of curvaceous physique and effortless elegance that we seem to inherit! I’m not putting us on a pedestal altogether - I agree there are some rather butch and well-fed girls out there too! - but in terms of modest femininity, there is something to be said about Bengalis. Here in the UK, Sikh girls are often the most lusted after (chiseled face, good figure, etc.). In my opinion, however, Gujurati girls here best fit the parameters of classic Indian beauty - fair, slim, religious, traditionally glamorous, etc., but I suppose no group can have it all! Bengali girls have their good share of appeal.
Nice read, pretty hilarious too. Yes, some of the places seem a triffle stereotype, but then the whole idea is not a research paper dissertation, so what the heck. Particulerly the litmus taste part-make them dance. Haha.
The Science and the arts division is definitely a stereotype, but true. Nasty guys in my dept used to call it the ” beauty being inversely proportional to brain” thoerem. But boy oh boy, our English Dept girls were hot, till they opened their mouth. Once they did, it was catastroph! These girls used to speak with a particulerly affected accent, somewhere between the English they speak at ‘marica’ and at Honduras. But then what the heck. We loved and admired and bitched about them.
But now, with the opportunity to know the girls from other states and countries, Bengali girls do stand apart. They stand apart in their modesty, in many a cases in their simple unaffected demineur, and in their care for their menfolk. At the end of the day, the truth in the buuk bhora modhu part glares in your eyes…. and the Bengali girl blinds you with her soft shimmering incanscence. You start loving her all over again. Cheers.
Hey, why give the poor engineering girls a hard time? I used to teach in an engineering insti where there’d be two-three girls in a class of 90. Classrooms were too small so everyone would be practically sitting in each other’s laps. The guys would have their arms around each other in that chummy way they have, but no matter how crowded the class was, there would be a cordon sanitaire around the girls of at least two feet of bench space in all directions. Oh I beg your pardon, there are no girls in techie brainshops, only ‘females’. These two ‘females’ would bear the brunt of various casually-sexist remarks, body language and observations from the 88 guys. Do you wonder that they opted for protective camouflage? Some of them however went the other way and turned into raving nymphomaniacs. I’d like to report that they had a better time of it, but no.
I kind of buy the theory that our Bong goddess-fascination leads to more sexual openness among Bong women, but I also think a lot of credit has to go to Bong men. Although I’ve met plenty who, like Brighton rock, had ‘chauvinist’ written in them all the way through, quite a few were also civilised, tolerant and unchained by gender in a way that most other Indian males would find disastrously ego-dissolving. Sadly, this wonderful character trait sometimes showed up permanently linked to mother fixation.
Sigh.
i have never been to the south , but bong girls we have seen and met , man i dont think they are anywhere near that “hot” ,
srry that sounds rude ,
i think why ppl say that they are hot is maybe coz of the bong actresses onscreen who in real life are look nowhere near to what they look onscreen ,
and bout punjabi girls , i think u visit north and u’ll find girls to die for , really , no biased comment this ,
whats the hulabaloo about nyakamo hain? as if we bong girls are the only chalu item on earth…staying in maharastra for 5 yrs now i have found maharastrians far more neki than us. On top they would behave as if they are still unknown to the concept of male body…but inside..ek ekta paka bel. I just mean to say…nyaka meye sara prithibi jure ache…only the way they present their nyakami is different…and to a point u guys fall into the trap….come on…would u like your friends to be devoid of feminine charms? then wudnt that be a defiance to nature? feminie grace and nyakami go hand in hand…only thing is it shouldnt eclipse your intelligence….and make u look like some headless dumb bimbette…and banglar bodhu bukh bhora modhu?…it defines both our sexuality(i am sure nobody is aversed towards it)as well as our compassion towards all our loved ones…bengali mothers are still considered the best in terms of bestowing maternal love…SO WHY COMPLAIN…
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They were good friends and nice people…..but came nowhere near the ultra-feminine Bengali lady stereotype.
and then:
Bengali girls cannot generically be considered as experts in the art of making men mad with lust. It’s only girls who come from specific *backgrounds*, who attended specific *educational institutions* and who have *similar-minded friends* that satisfy, to a certain extent, the stereotype.
Thats jumping from one generalisation to another isnt it?
Nice post nonetheless. as always that is
A neat work done by the author, at once analytical and scrappy.
Still I am happy that a Bengali (I personally hate the word “Bong” to describe a “Bengali”, as much as a Sardarji, Marwari, Oriya or Bihari would hate to be labelled a Paiyan, Mero, Urey or Khotta respectively) gent has tried to work on (no pun intended) Bengali women.
For all the popular impression conveyed through their ethnic saree wearing, putting on big bindis and arching their backs, I ask the author straightaway if Bengali women are really that sensuous or hot or sexy? Simply put, are they as hot as they appear? Or hotter than their counterparts from the other states?
I seriously doubt it. That part of an woman’s nature can only be understood by cohabiting with her. Not through casual sex or a one night stand or some time spent dancing wildly at a party. Thousands of married Bengali males will vouch for the fact that their sex lives with the so called hottest tribe of Indian women is nothing out of the extraordinary. And the rate of decline in performance from the women folk is alarmingly quick as the years progress. No wonder a majority of the married Bengali males lead unsatisfactory sex lives and have covert extra marital relations.
But let me agree that Bengali women do come across as a sensuous, uninhibited and bold lot in a very cultured sense who would exact her pound of flesh of physical satisfaction from a “go bechara Bangali purush”. Alas, if only the product matched the billing! But all credit goes to them for selling an image which contrasts widely with the reality. Pity the large number of gullible non Bengali men who look at the package and not the product.
Finally, the “probashi Bangali nari”. There was a time when they were indeed better than their homegrown counterparts. They lacked nothing and didn’t advertise small qualities on huge advertisement billboards. Post independence they held a beacon to their Kolkata sisters. Unfortunately they too have sunk into decadance and are glorious copies of the tribe of vacuous Bengali women from Kolkata.
The “bong women are hot” may be a myth, but I remember reading some survey results that said percentage of married women having (physical) relationships outside the marriage is highest in the eastern states (Bengal and Orissa) of India.
As far as I remember, that survey did not cover the North-Eastern states. I find the people there less hypocratic in their morality. And the Bongs more willing to accept their sexuality than the remaining parts of the country (other than north-east). The female idols of Goddesses made in Kolkata, for instance, are nude even now.
ok….so i’m an art student…literature, poetry, painting and drawing have been my life so far…but i plan to be a civil engineer…i wonder if that take away from watever hotness i have…
“The engineering girl would usually sit it out. The ones that liked to dance would do so with the grace of Sunny Deol stomping out cockroaches in “Yara O Yaraâ€( from Jeet), their arms pointing heavenwards like Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and their bodies moving up and down like turbines producing hydel power. The true embodiment of “Dance like noone is watching.â€
man this really had me in Splits… [:)]
Hilarious! But I doubt all JU Arts girls are the back-arching type, being one myself.(JU arts, not back-arching type)
Sorry! Sent the last one as anonymous by mistake.:) I just wanted to add that some of my female classmates wouldn’t have been able to arch a back to save their lives.
Great post! I’m not a bong but I thoroughly enjoyed reading this.
that was a fantastic read! though i think i can safely add most of my classmates to your non-back-archer list, ushasi.
must watch sunny deol’s ‘yara o yara’ again…
fantastic effort. the stitches are finally healing now - three days after i first read the article.
i was lucky enough to spend five wonderful years in the department of english and can vouch for the authenticity of arnab’s point of view. the arts faculty ladies have always fascinated me… and one still does - i’m married to her.
good article. entertained. U E faculty guys ca’nt care less, right?
Good article.Got to know a little bit about Bongs(gals).I completely agree with Sugato.It would be a tremendous mistake to generalise about anybody for that matter.”All punju girls are hot and all bongs are not” is a quite a funny statement.But then,beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder
and as you would also remember love is blind ;).Apply your thought too :).All the best.
Bengali men hav’nt got the least idea HOW MUCH Bengali women hate them,…………and God knows why!
perfect observation !!!
hmmm…interesting…
I am a 56 yeras old Bengali, Barendra Brahmin, an architect. Definately a prabashi, growing up in Delhi. College is done for the summer and iam at a coffee shop, bored. I was randomly looking up all things Bengali.
I lament that I never had the opportunity to experience romantic company of a bengali woman that are being described here. Perhaps it is true that Bengali women are sexy. I say this from experience here in Minneapolis, USA. We have a American history Professor who was seduced by 2 married bengali women in 2 occassions(or the women were seduced by the american professor?)
If any Bengali woman wants to know me, write me.
Dipankar
I loved Pryank’s quote - “Banglar badhu, book vora modhu”, I wish I had the previlage to “pan kari book vara modhu, modhu jaminite”
well, i do agree being from JU arts myself. but its nice na? how we have learnt to play the game? its a very true observation and that is because ju arts has so less of guys. we have good observations about engineering guys. waiting for them to be posted too. well, yeah…we bong gals are proudly “hot”
Basically I like what you say!! It is good adda material and like the stereotypical bengali, I must also have an opinion on everything. At the end I guess what matters is not arts or science but the substance. One would want to hang around with a bunch of hot dumb bong babes but I do not know if I would like to be wedded to one. Typically, in India intelligence is linked with pursuit of matters related to one or the other forms of science and its related less intellectual siblings, i.e. engineering and medicine. Ultimately it depends on you and who you are, eventually you would like to father a child and naturally you would subconsciously try to seek out the best genes, thats nature speaking by the way. Now those genes you seek may be found in any woman but then you would covet something or the other, and that may be either physical or intellectual or a combination of both. At the end, God is trying to fool you into fathering a child. The natural progression and preservation of the species depends on you, and you will have to do it one day or the other. Generationally, species will have to advance, the bad genes have to be weeded out and the best genes have to survive. So artsy or not, its natural selection anyway!! The fact that is alarming is that bongs are being weeded out, which is very evident from the comparison of the percentages of bongs in national and international institutes of repute at the time of independence and today. So the future of bongs depends on you. GO AND FIND THE RIGHT GENES(ASSUMING YOU HAVE THE RIGHT ONES!!)