Guha was born to a Bengali lower-middle-class family whose economic circumstances did not allow him to complete his school education.
It was a poor inn, owned by a poor Bengali family.
In traditional Bengali families, new clothes are a must for the Bengali New Year.
It is also a neighborhood where 200 Bengali families recently asked the school board to start a bilingual program.
Bengali families in the East End feel they have no protection and that they must begin to protect themselves.
They went through Uttar Pradesh being invited by lots of wealthy Bengali families.
For instance, it is the first film in his career which comes out as a reperesentation of the social class of old Bengali families.
At a time when the National Front was a threat in the area, Bengali families found strength squatting in numbers.
His Bengali family was prominent in arts and letters.
He was born in Lucknow, where his father came from a Bengali musical family.