Jhelum Chatterjee
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
Our Picture Board
https://usbengalforum.com/ourpictureboard/
https://www.amazon.com/Detour-Incredible-Tales-That-Take/dp/1943190224
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 – Poems of Twilight Years from Kamal Acharyya.
Arts – Partha Ghosh
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
“Grandchildren don’t make a man feel old, it’s the knowledge that he’s married to a grandmother that does.”
– *J. Norman Collie*
21st June
1948 33 1/3 RPM LP record introduced
1948 Lord Mountbatten resigns as Governor-General of India (formerly the last Viceroy)
22nd June
1535 Cardinal John Fisher is beheaded on Tower Hill, London, for refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII as head of the Church of England
1996 Saurav Ganguly scores 131 at Lord’s on Test cricket debut
23rd June
1757 Robert Clive defeats an army led by Suraja Dowlaat Plassey, wins control of Bengal
1960 1st contraceptive pill is made available for purchase in the U.S.
24th June
1908 Gopinath, the famous Kathakali dancer, was born.
1664 The colony of New Jersey is founded
2004 Capital punishment is declared unconstitutional in New York
25th June
1950 North Korea invades South Korea, beginning the Korean War
1997 Jacques Cousteau, French oceanographer, dies of a heart attack at 87
26th June
1843 Hong Kong proclaimed a British Crown Colony
1960 Madagascar (formerly Malagasy Rep) declares independence from France
27th June
1838 Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, famous novelist, writer of national song ‘Vande Mataram’, was born at Naihaty, West Bengal.
1929 1st color TV demo, performed by Bell Laboratories in NYC
1969 Richard Vance Maxfield, composer, dies at 42
28th June
1972 Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Indian scientist and applied statistician (Mahalanobis distance), whose birthdate is celebrated annually in India as “National Statistics Day”, dies at 78
2018 Power company uncovers Neolithic wooden trackway 2,300 years old in Suffolk, England. One of the largest archaeological digs in Europe at 16,000 square meters
29th June
1613 Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre in London, England, burns down during a performance of “Henry VIII”
1858 Great fire in London Docks
1873 Michael Madhusudan Dutt died.
30th June
1860 Famous debate on Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution held at the Oxford University Museum and dominated by arguments between Thomas Henry Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce
1971 Crew of Russian space mission Soyuz 11 found dead upon arrival on earth (only people to die in space)
