https://usbengalforum.com/book-by-joan-haring/
My MONALISA, Acrylic on paper Image. Source Internet
Drawn by Partha Ghosh
Sishu Bidya Bithi School – Independence Day celebration and participation of US Bengal Forum Kolkata, West Bengal.
Few pictures from the third school project anniversary by US Bengal forum Kolkata, West Bengal
Few pictures from the second school project anniversary by US Bengal forum Kolkata, West Bengal
p/1943190224Paperback and e-book formats. Please click below:
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Editor’s book:
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Poems – Poems of Twilight Years by Kamal Acharyya.
Congratulate Prize winner Sreejita Das, niece of Dr. Sibsankar Pal, for her dedication.
Q1 – 2026 contributors (School & College)
Tirthankar Das
Jhelum Chatterjee
Deblina Singha Roy
Q3-2025 contributors (School and College)
Arhon Jana
Molay Konar
Anuska Saha
Ayush Roy
Sagnika Sinha
Deep appreciation for many young contributors in all categories.
Funniest Quotes about ageing
“At fifty, everyone has the face he deserves.”
– *George Orwell*
HAPPY AGEING AND GROWING
15th August
1854 The first train of the East Indian Railways ran out of Howrah station to Hoogly, which was at a distance of 24 miles.
1947 Indian Independence Day.
1975 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Founding father of Bangladesh, assassinated in a military coup by a group of junior army officers at 55
16th August
1886 Ramakrishna, avatar dies at 50
1946 Widespread riots erupt in Calcutta between Muslims and Hindus over whether Pakistan should be a separate state, killing over 4,000 and leaving 100,000 homeless
17th August
1761 William Carey, an English missionary to India was born. He taught at the Fort William College at Calcutta from 1801 and helped to create Serampore Press.
1945 Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta declare Indonesia independent from the Netherlands
1877 Asaph Hall discovers Mars’ moon Phobos
18th August
1227 Genghis Khan, Mongol conqueror, dies
1932 Englishman James Mollison is 1st to fly east to west over Atlantic
19th August
1919 Afghanistan declares independence from UK
1944 Last Japanese troops driven out of India
20th August
1828 Hindu reform movement Brahmo Samaj founded by Dwarkanath Tagore in Calcutta
1920 American Professional Football Association forms, which would later become the National Football League (NFL)
21st August
1888 American inventor William Seward Burroughs patents the adding machine
1911 “Mona Lisa” stolen from the Louvre by Vincenzo Perugia (Recovered in 1913)
22nd August
1639 Madras (now Chennai), India, founded by the British East India Company on sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers
1762 1st female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport, Rhode Island, Mercury
