Consoled in Bengali

At the airport in Madras, one of my bags had not arrived. I was talking to one of the workers about it. We were speaking English.

All of a sudden an American started consoling me in Bengali, saying, “It will come one day. Do not worry!”

How did he know that I was Bengali?

— 28 September 1984

From:Sri Chinmoy,The World-Experience-Tree-Climber, Part 3, Agni Press, New York, 1993
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