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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

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing, and dream while others are wishing.

William Arthur Ward

Day's history

9th December

1825 Tula Ram Rao, one of the revolutionary heroes of the 1857 and Sepoy Mutiny, was born
1883 Poet Rabindranath Tagore (22) weds Mrinalini Devi
1990 Lech Wałęsa wins Poland’s 1st direct presidential election in Poland

10th December

1510 Muslim ruler of Goa, Yusuf Adil Shah, and his Ottoman allies surrender to Portuguese forces led by Afonso de Albuquerque
1901 First Nobel Peace Prizes awarded to Red Cross founder Jean Henri Dunant and peace activist Frederic Passy
1913 Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore becomes the first non-European to be presented with the Nobel Prize for Literature for “Gitanjali”

11th December

1913 “Mona Lisa” recovered 2 years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum
1987 G. A. Kulkarni, Indian (Marathi) writer (RamalKhuna), dies.

12th December

1901 Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore founded the first dance school called “Kala Bhawan” and established the “Barahamacharya Ashram”, the Vishwa Bharati University of Shantiniketan.
1911 Delhi replaces Calcutta as the capital of India.
1968 Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to be ranked #1 in tennis

13th December

1920 League of nations establishes the International Court of Justice in The Hague
1984 The death toll in a toxic gas leak from Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, now is estimated at 2,100.

14th December

1503 Nostradamus, French astrologist, and prophet, born in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France (d. 1566)
1903 The Wright brothers attempt to fly the Wright Flyer for the first time at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
1911 Norwegian Roald Amundsen’s expedition is the 1st to reach the South Pole

15th December

1973 American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not a mental illness
1961 Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death for war crimes in Israel

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New book from Hillol

Collection of Hillol’s Poems

Interview with Hillol Ray, 73 CE

Few Books by Hillol Ray