At least one wag quipped that it is curious the Delhi Police saw fit to ask for help from the West Bengal state government’s Banga Bhawan rather than asking for help from the Bangladesh embassy, if indeed “Bangladeshi” was what the issue was.

Of course, across West Bengal, it is well-known that not only do those of ancestral Bangladeshi extraction (the ‘Bangal’ community) speak specific distinct dialects but so do those of ancestral extraction from different parts of West Bengal (the ‘ghoti’ community) — often mutually challenging to each other, and not just across the border.

That there is a Bengali/Indian Bangla and a Bangladeshi Bangla has been news to Bengalis across India, given they variously speak one or more of the several dialects of Rarh, Contai, Barendra, Sylheti, Chattgainya, Barishailya, Nadia, Jessore, Malda, Rongpur or indeed, Dhakai or Kolkata-specific ones — all of which are widely spoken across both borders and in all three capital cities, doubtless (Delhi, Kolkata and Dhaka).