{"id":1643,"date":"2016-04-14T01:11:29","date_gmt":"2016-04-14T01:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=1643"},"modified":"2026-07-17T14:13:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:13:02","slug":"bengalis-nyaka-west-bengal-nyakami-moon-moon-sen-kolkata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=1643","title":{"rendered":"Dissecting the Bengali Nyaka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span>n my first job fresh out of college, three years ago, I sat sandwiched between two <\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/bengali-new-year-subho-nababarsha-calcutta-west-bengal-india-rabindra-sangeet\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bengali<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> women co-workers and at an arm\u2019s length from the third. Like countless other Bengalis, they exercised their fundamental right of launching into rapid and loud Bangla to converse with each other for most of the day, much to the disapproval of the rest of the (non-Bengali speaking) newsroom. From gossiping about long-lost college friends, giggling at the sight of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/ranveer-singh-deepika-padukone-padmavati-rani-padmini-alauddin-khilji-sanjay-leela-bhansali-bollywood-movies-cinema-india\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ranveer Singh\u2019s<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> shirtless body to opining about the significance of an aloo in biryani, and asking each other for suggestions while shopping online, this band of Bongs did it all, huddled up together in a little corner that inevitably ended up including me. All the while, never forgetting to generously accompany their communication with urgent chants of \u201cE baba!\u201d, \u201cIssh\u201d, and \u201cO Maa!\u201d<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a probashi Bangali, living on my own in an alien city, becoming a reluctant eavesdropper to their daily bickering ended up serving as an unexpected cure to my occasional homesickness. As it turns out, there is something oddly comforting about basking in the company of your <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/social-commentary\/india-delhi-hindi-punjabi-bangalore-chennai-tamil-malayalam-kochi-bengaluru-punjab-mother-tongue\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mother tongue<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in a setting where it doesn\u2019t assume first preference. Their splattering of Bengali slangs \u2013\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201caantel\u201d (pseudo-intellectuals), \u201cgobet\u201d (dumb fool), \u201ckyalane\u201d (idiotic), and \u201cpod paaka\u201d (annoying prick) <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in everyday conversations effortlessly reminded me of everything that was unique about being Bangali. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was a great time, except it came with a catch. The catch was tolerating their nyakami.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nyakami, for the uninitiated, is the art of pretend coyness, coquetry, scheming, whining, attention-seeking, and everything in between. Nyakami has been part of every urban Bengali woman\u2019s identity, one that is kept forcibly in check through the year, but is unleashed like a ferocious leopard in Aarey Colony during <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/durga-pujo-festivals-india-kolkata\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Durga Pujo<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Kolkata Book Fair, and Saraswati Pujo aka Bengali <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/kama-sutra-valentines-day-sex-india-millennial-lovers-day\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Valentine\u2019s Day<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Even all of Kolkata\u2019s chaa and fish kabirajis can never make it charming.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When indulging in nyakami, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/satire\/kolkata-west-bengal-india-bengali-yogi-adityanath-beef-ban-rss-shiv-sena-lgbtq\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bengali<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> women metamorphose into the nyaka caricatures of themselves the same way John Green\u2019s characters fall in love: slowly, and then all at once. To think of the Urban Nyaka Girl, think of Kareena Kapoor\u2019s Poo from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8230; Only, she is no longer in a supporting role; she is now the lead. (And has a little bit more \u201ckalchaar\u201d.) <\/span>\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\">Remember Sharmila Tagore in <em>Safar<\/em>, where she kept biting her lips while delivering her dialogues coyly, and the effect it had on the film\u2019s lead and the audience? 10\/10 nyaka.<\/blockquote>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nyaka is essentially the one-man army of Bengali slangs with no single English word coming close to capturing its flavour. This made nyaka the ultimate example of an untranslatable word, instantly elevating its existence into an exclusive secret passed along only among Bengalis near and far. For a long time, being labelled as a \u201cnyaka meye\u201d was considered a dreaded insult, one that was even worse than presstitute, libtard, and sickular, combined. It had the weight of a walk of shame. And, then it didn\u2019t.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over time, nyaka saja (pretending to be nyaka) became aspirational and its value was heightened by Sharmila Tagore and Moon Moon Sen. The evergreen Bengali belles elevated the word and its mannerisms to an indispensable female accessory that complemented every laal paar saree and winged eyeliner, christening itself as a pick-up move. Remember Sharmila Tagore in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Safar<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, where she kept biting her lips while delivering her dialogues coyly, and the effect it had on the film\u2019s lead and the audience? 10\/10 nyaka.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Anjan Dutt\u2019s 2007 film, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bow Barracks Forever, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bengal\u2019s pride (after <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/people\/netaji-subhas-chandra-bose-india-russia-indian-national-army-jawaharlal-nehru-purabi-roy-hugh-toye-saraswati-rajamani\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Subhash Chandra Bose<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, of course), Moon Moon Sen, who was then in her fifties, essayed the older boudi iteration of the nyaka meye. In the film, she plays Rosa, a sexually frustrated wife who is embroiled in an affair with George Baker\u2019s married \u201cBengali\u201d insurance agent. (If there ever was a casting faux-pas moment, Bengal\u2019s won that. We\u2019re just that good at everything.) There\u2019s a scene where the two take a go at each other with a ferociousness that Bengalis usually reserve for deboning a fish; one that\u2019s meant to highlight the frustration and loneliness that is intrinsic in both their lives. <\/span>\n\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27924\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1511330041.jpg\" alt=\"Bengali Nyaka\" width=\"622\" height=\"407\" \/>\n<figcaption>\n<p>In the film, Moon Moon Sen plays Rosa, a sexually frustrated wife who is embroiled in an affair with George Baker\u2019s married \u201cBengali\u201d insurance agent.\nAnjan Dutt\/Cinemawalle<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sen carries forward her aura in the scene right after, delivering a soliloquy soaked in \u201curban nyakamo\u201d replete with tears and a frowning, contorted face designed to evoke sympathy. We\u2019re both becoming old, she tells him, ending her extra AF rant with a glance; less as a warning, and more as a seductive weapon. It\u2019s a brief moment, but the damage is done. He instantly melts, reinforcing the magical abilities that the pretense of nyakamo can hold.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s the same inherent nyakamo she brings to another scene in the film where she comes back to her husband after being dumped by the most un-Bengali insurance agent. Her husband strips to \u201coffer\u201d himself to her, adding that he doesn\u2019t have \u201cmuch to offer\u201d, but whatever he has, is all hers. It\u2019s at this moment that Moon Moon Sen brings out her inner nyaka goddess, and breaks into self-blame mode. She widens her eyes, makes a few tears appear on her face, and goes all, \u201cI\u2019m the lousiest bitch in the city.\u201d Totally unnecessary, but checkmate.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There has been no looking back since. Nowadays, a mild incident of nyaka saja could involve a girl throwing a fit about going pandal-hopping in the sweltering heat because of the risk of the sun darkening her complexion, despite making the plan herself. A more aggressive strain is witnessed by faking ankle twists when she\u2019s not in the mood to walk long lines to enter a pandal or a book fest. After subtly making it look like she just twisted her ankle, our homegirl will give out a shrill yell of \u201cE baba!\u201d which will naturally activate the protector instinct of the bhadrolok she is with. He will then, help her sit down, before inspecting her feet, an event she has been waiting for. After a couple of short yells of fake pains, she will coyly thank him, and get him to offer his hand to hold onto, and suggest a different plan instead. A good play of nyakamo is one that makes everyone blindly believe that the urban nyaka girl is wholly unaware of her citizenship to nyakamo kingdom. In reality, the only ones clueless of this epidemic are the bhadroloks the nyakamo is inflicted upon. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Naturally, my co-workers were experts in this advanced art of the damsel in distress. One would fix the anchol of the taant saree she\u2019d worn to work at least 15 times while reciting the utterly predictable story of how she tripped while climbing the stairs leading to the saree almost coming undone. The recital was always accompanied by shrill laughter. But it wasn\u2019t more shrill than another co-worker yelling a high-pitched \u201cShobbonash. Amar jibon shesh\u201d (My life is over!), as if she\u2019d lost a relative, every time she spotted a grey hair. Together, the Bengali brigade had the ability to not just cry wolf at the drop of a hat, but also take any situation, and magically incorporate themselves into it, headlining as the victim. Nyaka girls are ultimately then a Bengali version of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/ranbir-kapoor-birthday-actor-bollywood\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ranbir Kapoor<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, always choosing to play the same role.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Three months into my first job then, I learnt a sacrosanct lesson from these nyaka mamonis that I\u2019d forgotten in all these years of living away: You can take the Bengali woman out of Bengal, but you can\u2019t take the nyaka out of the Bengali woman. <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Being \u201cBangali\u201d then, is existing in a state of artful being. It is as Vir Sanghvi once <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/virsanghvi.com\/Article-Details.aspx?key=858\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">wrote<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, \u201cTo understand Calcutta, you must understand the Bengali. It\u2019s not easy.\u201d <\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Truer words have not been spoken.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nyakami, for the uninitiated, is the art of pretend coyness, coquetry, whining, attention-seeking, and everything in between. To think of the Urban Nyaka Girl, think of Kareena Kapoor\u2019s Poo from Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham&#8230; Only, with a bit more \u201ckalchaar\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103,"featured_media":1646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[3045,3046,2447,1231,3047,3048,3049,3050,3051,153,3052,1445],"class_list":["post-1643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-bengalis","tag-bongs","tag-durga-puja","tag-kolkata","tag-kolkata-book-fair","tag-moon-moon-sen","tag-nyaka","tag-nyakami","tag-saraswati-puja","tag-sharmila-tagore","tag-urban-nyaka","tag-west-bengal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dissecting the Bengali Nyaka<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nyakami, for the uninitiated, is the art of pretend coyness, coquetry, whining, attention-seeking, and everything in between. 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