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Did You Know...
that the Mahishya caste is one of the predominant Hindu castes in West Bengal , India ?
that a fire that broke out a few days before Hiralal Sen died destroyed all his films including India 's first political film?
...that Kallol was perhaps, the first conscious literary movement to embrace modernism in Bengali literature ?
...that innovative Indian film director Ritwik Ghatak 's first feature film Nagarik premiered after his death, twenty-four years after it was made?
...that noted Bengali writer Rajnarayan Basu was a tutor of Asia 's first Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore ?
...that the Partition of Midnapore to divide Midnapore , India 's most populous district, was achieved 81 years after the first attempt in 1921 ?
...that the Sannyasi Rebellion was a series of clashes between Indian ascetics and the British East India Company during the eighteenth century in Bengal ?
...that Sajal Barui , who escaped after being convicted of murdering his family, was recaptured by the West Bengal police for theft without his true identity being discovered?
...that a tornado that hit Dantan in India on March 24 , 1998 killed over 250 people?
...that a statue now stands where Matangini Hazra was shot in 1942 during the Quit India Movement ?
...that the Kandariya Mahadeva (pictured ) is considered one of the best examples of Hindu temples preserved from the medieval period in India?
... that the Chinese of Calcutta have established the only Chinatown in India ?
...that Narayan Debnath made the comic-strip character Batul The Great a superhero when the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 flared up?
...that Matir Moina , a Bangladeshi film by Tareque Masud , was temporarily banned by censors in Bangladesh before becoming the country's first film to compete for the Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category?
...that Joint Forest Management between villagers and the government of India was started to prevent theft of forest resources at Arabari , but now accounts for the management of at least 14 million hectares in 27 states?
...that nearly 20,000 people visited a shrine in Bangalore in 2002 to see the Miracle Chapati , a flat unleaved piece of bread with the likeness of Jesus on it?
...that the Stoneman serial murders of thirteen homeless people in the summer of 1989 in Kolkata remain unsolved?