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https://www.amazon.com/Detour-Incredible-Tales-That-Take/dp/1943190224

Collection of short stories: A book written by Sunil Ghose.

 

p/1943190224Paperback and e-book formats. Please click below:

https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=zLrHEAAAQBAJ
Editor’s book:
https://www.archwaypublishing.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/829905-born-in-heaven
Poems – I keep Searching for you, Poems of Twilight Years from Kamal Acharyya.
Short Story:
নারী স্বাধীনতা – Soumi Jana
ঝুমকির ঝমক্ – Krishna Chaudhuri
Variety – মেচ রমনীর দোকনা ফাস্রা – Dr. Shibsankar Pal
সেলাই দিদিমণি, Women help in Carpet making. – Dr Shibsankar Pal.
Arts – Partha Ghosh

Q4-2023 contributors (School and College)
Koushik Dutta
Aniruddha Pal
Srestha Chakraborty

Q1-2024
Arnab Dalui
Deblina Singha Roy

Q3-2024
Saniya Bharti
Anwesha Dey
Neelkantha Saha

Our deep appreciation for many young contributors in all categories.

Quotes

Funniest Quotes about ageing

“First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down.”
– *Leo Rosenberg*

HAPPY AGEING AND GROWING

Day's history

15th June

1844 Charles Goodyear patents the vulcanization of rubber
1916 Boeing Model 1, the 1st Boeing product, flies for the 1st time

16th June

1884 1st roller coaster used (Coney Island NY)
1963 Valentina Tereshkova (USSR) is a 1st woman in space, aboard Vostok 6

17th June

1756 Nawab Siraj-Ud-Daulah attacked Calcutta with 50,000 soldiers and captured it on June 21.
1858 Rani Lakshmibai, queen of Jhansi in North India died, one of the leading figures of the Indian rebellion of 1857 (b. 1828)
1944 Iceland declares independence from Denmark

18th June

1898 1st amusement pier opens in Atlantic City, New Jersey
1946 Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa. A road is named after this date in Panjim

19th June

1963 Valentina Tereshkova 1st woman in space returns to Earth
2008 Barun Sengupta, Bengali journalist died (b. 1934)

20th June

1756 Black Hole of Calcutta: 146 British soldiers, Anglo-Indian soldiers, and Indian civilians are imprisoned in a small dungeon in Calcutta, India where most die from suffocation and heat exhaustion
1756 Siraj Ud-Daulah Nawab of Bengal takes Calcutta from the British

21st June

1906 Vyomeshchandra Banerjee, first president of All India Congress, passed away.
1791 Fleeing French King Louis XVI and family captured at Varennes-en-Argonne
1998 “Home Alone” actor Macaulay Culkin (17) weds broadway actress Rachel Miner (17) in Stone Church in New Preston, Connecticut

 

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