This paper discusses a class of questions in Bangla (Bengali; Indo-Aryan) in which the proximal demonstrative marker e 'this' appears without any obvious theta role. They are called egocentric questions because the speaker has to have a particular event in mind while uttering the question, and the hearer has to identify that particular event as well. Egocentric questions differ from ordinary questions in that the former can only be asked felicitously if there is some evidence (direct/indirect) available to the speaker about the question situation, whereas no such requirement is imposed on uttering an ordinary question. Egocentric questions are noted to be similar to rhetorical questions at times. However, they can be purely information seeking too. Whether a rhetorical or an information seeking reading emerges depends on the nature of the speaker's access to the particular question event: when the speaker has full access to the question situation a rhetorical reading is available, while partial access to the same means the question can be an information seeking one.