Laila Cries Over Majnu’s Grave, Sarada Ukil

In this gorgeous painting, Sarada Ukil (1888 - 1940), a Bengali actor and artist, delicately portrays Laila’s regret and agony at the loss of her beloved.

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Wealthy Bengalies at Calcutta vied with each other, invited nautch girls-courtesans, from faraway Lucknow & Delhi, for entertainment
"Raja Nob Kishen’s Nautch Party at Calcutta” news appeared in Calcutta Gazette of 20-10-1814(?)
👇c1825, painting by Charles D’Oyly

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Thanks for the share meeti !!

👋 I'm Momo, a nonbinary Bengali-American artist ! I make illustrations (both fanart and original) and also have done some solo zines 😊

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My mama and I have a tradition of watching Bangla films whenever I visit Kolkata, and this time he took me for Kaberi Antardhan, which I really liked (and which helped get over Pathaan FOMO).

It's a very Bengali movie ofc - everyone is LW and cheating on their spouses.

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hi im jas, im chinese & bengali/bangladeshi and i can draw i think heres my atrt

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มาขายเด่กแฝดดด คนน้องชื่อเจลเลอร์(Bengali ผู้คุม)คนพี่ชื่อไวเปอร์(งูพิษ)
คาดว่าจะมาเวิ่นเป็นิยายเรื่อยๆค่ะ แต่มาตอนไหน(?) https://t.co/jPwF0DolWT

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silly bengali-singaporean artist 🎉

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Thomas Hickey's painting of an Indian Lady (Indian bibi), 1787, National Gallery of Ireland. Probably a depiction of William Hickey's Bengali partner Jemdanee.

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Fire babies with bengalian fire :D

This and the previous pics were gifts to my precious wife
My sunshine, i love you so much<З

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Illustration to a Bengali proverb ‘As like as two pigeons’. Watercolour and tin paint, Calcutta c1830; V & A Museum.

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Based on the story 'Kali Yuga' from Primitive War Dispatches Volume II - Psalms of Saraph and Simorgh, illustrated by instagram user whyflippenme.

An albedo utahraptor drags away a dead Bengali woman after the Bhola Cyclone.

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ANOTHER REDRAW EWWWW EWWWW
i remember headcannoning jer to be bengali and i still agree ‼️‼️‼️shes my gal



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I'M BACKKKK
Disappeared for a while because of some stuff going on in my life BUT here's something as compensation :>hehe
My artstyle has changes a lot

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Maid bringing Hookah to a Lady
c.1890 Kalighat Painting
lady in red is fashionable high society concubine or prostitute depicted as hookah-smoking, paan-(betel leaf) chewing. wealth created by East India Company made it possible for Bengali babu to have concubines

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hi. i like drawing food, characters and love playing Genshin. i’m bengali, 22 and open to take commissions!

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