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For you it is, not for others, the point @rubyjackass already made. You just dont want to call it blasphemy bcoz the word is associated with abrahamic religions.

Title is fine considering center is arguing for a case lodged against swami by Assam govt.

Is killing cow also practiced, frowned upon and not blasphemous.

There shouldn't be a law banning hate speech since a person is entitled to his/her hatred.

Eto dhang kare balen keno? Pujo habe, puja na.

Not months, weeks may be! Still they are pretty good, I think better quality fishes are reserved for expert market.

I never met a Bangladeshi in Bagladesh since I never been there, however Bangladeshis here generally are more cordial and social(alaapi) than Indian Bengalis who mostly keep to themselves unless a common friend introduces you. But I guess the respective demography could also be a reason for that.

The joy of living in NYC, i can always go to Jackson Heights and buy fish to my hearts content!! In fact I get far better quality Ilish here than i used to get in kolkata.

Indian Bengalis are very religious, just look at the number of pujo celebration we have, however we have been taught not to wear our religion up our sleeves and there are multiple paths leading to the same source. I guess thats bit hard to digest for you. Bengalis outside bengal are one of the...

No no, rather you were pretty accurate, i was trying to describe the difference between super rich of kol and dhaka like dhaka has managed to grow a class of bengali businessmen while most businessmen in kol are still marwaris . Dont be afraid of shitstroms and dont be diplomatic!

Mostly correct, only one issue - your memory of Kolkata is probably that of 90's when you last visited Kolkata? Kolkata was made a lot cleaner since, while it's still not anywhere near global standard but there's been improvement. Read this article in Daily Star - Dhaka vs Kolkata | The Daily...

This thread will descend into sh!tstrom in next 3 pages.

As usual you look for motives in Arun Shourie's words, dont you think his criticism is valid? Agreed, most intellectuals worth their salt are left leaning liberals, but thats the case in rest of the world as well, just look at USA. To think that all of them are on congress payroll and dont...

Shourie: If anyone speaks up, they go his father was this, his mother is this, he didn't speak up in this year. Thats the level of debate... Gandhi never spoke strongly against holocaust. Does it mean his protests should not be accepted: Arun Shourie the "bhaktas" who use vilest abuses on...

I can understand Joe's pain, I came to this forum after a hiatus to spend an idle sunday and already called a variation of islamphobic pagan bengali muslim who moved to usa and converted to christianity!! Someone even dig deep and found out my first name which I had as handle like 2 years ago...

Good, will increase the sell of those books!

Thank you for asking nicely, i was making an equivalence of traditonal conservative establishment in US and so called RWs of India who in my opinion dont have penchant for free market, privatization, reduced govt footprint etc, or refrain to do so because it'd be unpopular with the people...

I have to give it to you guys, you can be racists towards your own countrymen while being proud of your supposed nationalism! Now i can understand racism but dont understand how guys like you or luffi from Bangladesh can be online racists, its like orks from lotr being racists towards the...

I have said couple pages back in a reply to banglore, but since then have been swarmed by all kind of idiots who started pelting me all sort of links google search can bring up, called me muslim or christian, called me bengali as if thats an insult. Guess i should just have avoided this...

Isn't that the whole point?