Author: Debu Chaudhuri | Posted on: 8th, Mar, 2024
Old house 1950-2009. Kolkata, India, 170/1 Roy Bahadur Road, Behala
Old house demolished and built 2 buildings with 16 Flats, 2010-Present, 170/1 Roy Bahadur Road, Behala, Kolkata 70034, India
Both buildings are visible from this angle. The left side building was built in 2010, right building a few years later.
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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:
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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.
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
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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Comment by dchaudhuri — March 8, 2024 @ 10:03 pm