Bengali, also known as Bangla (বাংলা), is the lingua franca of the Bengal region of South Asia. It is the most widely spoken language of Bangladesh and the second most widely spoken of the 22 scheduled languages of India, after Hindi. With approximately 228 million native speakers and another 37 million as second language speakers, Bengali is the fifth most-spoken native language and the seventh most spoken language by total number of speakers in the world.

Purnendu Patri was a Bengali poet, writer, editor, artist, illustrator, and film director. He was best known for his poems and stories, particularly for his poetry collection Kathopokathan, and for his experimentation with book cover design. Jishnu Sen recited his poem ‘ সেই গল্পটা’ -That Story, in Bengali.