Greatest Bengalis

I thought of writing about 10 greatest Bengalis of all time. But as I searched, there were hundreds and thousands that I was unable to write about all of them. I will be giving some, only a few and one word about them. Net is open and details can be found out.

Actors and actresses
1) Rahul Bose - Bengali and Bollywood actor and rugby player
2) Shefali Chowdhury - Hollywood actor, seen in Harry Potter movies as Parvati Patil
3) Ashok Kumar - Bollywood actor
4) Kishore Kumar -Bollywood singer, actor, music composer
5) Uttam Kumar - Bollywood and Bengali film actor
6) Suchitra Sen - Bollywood and Bengali film actress
7) Konkona Sen Sharma - Bollywood Actress
8) Ronit Roy-TV actor
9) Rohit Roy-TV actor

Economists
1) Amartya Sen Ômorto Kumar Shen - economist, Nobel Laureate
2) Abhijit Banerjee - Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Entrepreneurs
1) Jawed Karim - co-founder of YouTube
2) Amar Bose Ômor Gopal Boshu - founder of Bose Corporation
3) Subrato Roy - founder of Sahara India Pariwar

Filmmakers
1) Satyajit Ray Shottojit Rae - filmmaker, won the Bharat Ratna in 1992, won the Academy Honorary Award in 1992 for lifetime achievement and received the Légion d'honneur award of France and also received an Academy Award for his film Pather Panchali.
2) Hrishikesh Mukherjee Rhishikesh Mukharji - filmmaker

Intellectuals and social reformers
1) Shri Aurobindo, Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, scholar, poet, mystic, evolutionary philosopher, yogi and guru
2) Ram Mohan Roy, - founder of the Brahmo Samaj
1) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar - responsible for introducing major reforms in the educational system and was Women's right activist

Journalists and news reporters
1) Pritish Nandy - Pritish Nandy Communications Ltd
2) Prannoy Roy - Founder and President of NDTV - One of India's largest television and media production house

Musicians
1) Abhijeet Abhijeet Bhattacharya - Bollywood playback singer
2) R.D. Burman Rahul Dev Burman - music composer
3) S.D. Burman Sachin Dev Burman - famous music composer and singer and father of R.D. Burman
4) Manna Dey Manna De - Bollywood playback singer
5) Anjan Dutta - Singer and musician of popular Bengali music. Also a Bengali filmmaker and actor.
6) Pritam Pritam Chakraborty and rupam- Bollywood Music Composer Fossils band
7) Shaan Shantanu Mukherjee - Bollywood playback singer
8) Kumar Sanu Kumar Sanu - Bollywood playback singer
9) Ravi Shankar Robi Shôngkor - sitar maestro, Grammy Award winner, father of Norah Jones and Anoushka Shankar

Political figures
1) Subhas Chandra Bose-Former President of Indian National Congress,Freedom Fighter and Co-Founder Indian National army
2) Pranab Mukherjee- Minister for External Affairs ,Government of India, Senior leader of Indian National Congress
3) Priyaranjan Dasmunsi- Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, Senior leader of Indian National Congress and President of West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee
4) Chittaranjan Das - Prominent person in the Indian independence movement also known as Deshabandhu.
5) Bagha Jatin Bomb expert in India's Independence struggle
6) Sarojini Naidu or Sarojini Chattopadhyaya , also known by the sobriquet Bharatiya Kokila (The Nightingale of India),

Sportsperson
1) P.K. Banerjee - Footballer: was named Indian Footballer of the 20th Century by FIFA and received the Padma Shri Award in 1990
2) Sourav Ganguly - Cricketer, former captain of Indian cricket team
3) Brojen Das Swimmer: first Asian to swim across the English Channel and the first person to cross it four times
4) Gostho Pal, Great Footballer.Member of the 1st Indian Team(MohunBagan)those who won the IFA shield against a British team in the pre independence period.Led the Mohunbagan Club successfully
5) Mihir Sen, Swimmer: First Indian to swim across the English Channel in 1958.
6) Arati Saha, Swimmer: First Asian woman to swim English Channel in 1959.
7) Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, athletics: Double gold-medallist in track at Asian games, was awarded Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and Padma Shri award

Religious figures
1) Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Choitonno Môhaprobhu - Syelleti Hindu monk and social reformer
2) Ramakrishna Paramahamsa Ramkrishno Pôromôhongsho - Hindu saint
3) Swami Vivekananda Shami Bibekanondo - Hindu monk and social reformer
4) A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada - founder of ISKCON
5) Paramahansa Yogananda Pôromôhongsho Joganondo - monk and exponent of Kriya Yoga
6) Sri Anandamoyi Ma, - Spiritual teacher and Guru
7) Baba Lokenath Brahmachari - Hindu saint and philosopher

Scientists & Engineers
1) Amar Bose - Inventor, founder of Bose Corporation
2) Jagdish Chandra Bose Physicist, radio and wireless transmittion pioneer, invented the radio before Marconi. Also did substantial work on botany.
3) Satyendra Nath Bose Physicist, founded Bose–Einstein statistics, which helped to produce Bose-Einstein condensate (2001 Nobel Prize in Physics was given for this discovery); Boson, a study of Elementary particle, is named to honor him
4) Subhash Mukhopadhyay - Physicist: became the first physician in India and second in the world to perform the In vitro fertilization
5) Prafulla Chandra Roy bn:প্রফুল্ল চন্দ্র রায়- Pioneer in the field of pharmaceutical and chemical works (discovered mercurous nitrite)

Writers
1) Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay (1894-1950) - novelist
2) Manik Bandopadhyay (1908-1956) - novelist, short story writer
3) Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay (1838-1894) - novelist, essayist
4) Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay (1876-1938) - novelist
5) Michael Madhusudan Dutt (1824-1873) - poet, dramatist
6) Sunil Gangopadhyay (b. 1934) - poet, novelist
7) Amitav Ghosh - novelist, essayist
8) Jhumpa Lahiri - novelist, short story writer
9) Arundhati Roy - novelist, essayist
10) Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) - poet, novelist, essayist Rabindranath Tagore is the first Asian Nobel laureate

Reservation

Industry leaders said that they were ready to provide employment opportunities to people from SC. ST and OBC but were opposed to mandatory job reservation in the private sector.
Trouble is the private sector has all the ability and wisdom to improve the lot of the reserved classes. But they are not applying it and now the PMO has even given them such an opportunity to avoid legislation
They will give peon’s job …how will they evolve? Their evolution lies in literacy, quality education, but the government will skirt it, because educating these people will liberate them and take away the votes. I was hoping atleast the private sector will think differently, and instead of jobs, they will offer to invest their surpluses to create educational opportunities.
Their should be meritocracy, why should your birth status give you privileges? And despite all the benefits they demand, they don’t want a level playing field at all! I would imagine if one generation gets benefits of reservation, then their next generation should be de-reserved, yes? But no! They continue to wear caste badge and claim preferential treatment! And let’s face it, the reservation ploy is not going to create abundance or economic equality for the minorities ….it is abused by some to concentrate wealth and usurp power.