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:
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
“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
1st August
1936 XI Summer Olympic Games are opened by Adolph Hitler in Berlin
1971 George Harrison’s concert for Bangladesh takes place in NYC
2nd August
1858 Government of India transferred from East India Company to the British Crown
1880 British Parliament officially adopts Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
3rd August
1492 Christopher Columbus sets sail on his first voyage with three ships, Santa María, Pinta and Niña from Palos de la Frontera, Spain for the “Indies”
1984 Bomb attack on Madras India airport, 32 killed
4th August
1805 William Rowan Hamilton, Irish astronomer, and mathematician, born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1865)
1875 Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author of 150 fairy tales (The Ugly Duckling, The Snow Queen), dies at 70
5th August
1962 Marilyn Monroe [Norma Jean Mortenson], American actress (Some Like It Hot), found dead of an apparent self-inflicted drug overdose at 36
1997 Korean Air 747 with 331 aboard crashes in Guam, 29 survive
6th August
1945 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the US B-29 Superfortress “Enola Gay”
1962 Jamaica becomes independent after 300 years of British rule
7th August
1955 Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first transistor radios in Japan
1971 Apollo 15 returns to Earth
8th August
1509 Emperor Krishnadeva Raya is crowned, marking the beginning of the regeneration of the Vijayanagara Empire in Southern India
1919 Treaty of Rawalpindi, British recognize Afghanistan’s independence
1974 US President Richard Nixon announces he will resign at 12 pm the next day
