Author: Debu Chaudhuri | Posted on: 1st, Feb, 2026
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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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
“Paradoxically, the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn’t appeal to anyone.”
– *Andy Rooney*
HAPPY AGEING AND GROWING
16th October
1934 Mao Zedong & 25,000 troops begin 6,000 miles Long March
1942 Cyclone in the Bay of Bengal kills some 40,000 south of Calcutta India
1951 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan, Liaquat Ali Khan, is assassinated by Said Akbar in Rawalpindi
17th October
1933 Albert Einstein arrives in the US as a refugee from Nazi Germany
1979 Mother Teresa of Calcutta awarded Nobel Peace Prize
18th October
1775 African-American poet Phillis Wheatley freed from slavery
1867 Alaska Purchase: US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia, having paid $7.2 million
19th October
1910 Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, India, astrophysicist (Nobel 1983)
1960 Martin Luther King Jr. arrested in Atlanta sit-in
20th October
1864 US President Abraham Lincoln formally establishes Thanksgiving as a national holiday 1971 West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is awarded Nobel Peace Prize
21st October
1805 Battle of Trafalgar: British Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats combined French and Spanish fleet. Nelson shot and killed during the battle.
1958 1st women in the British House of Lords
22nd October
1721 Tsar Peter the Great becomes “All-Russian Imperator”
1884 International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C. adopts Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) worldwide, creating 24 international time zones with longitude zero at the Greenwich meridian
1975 Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 soft-lands on Venus, becoming the first lander to return images from the surface of another planet
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Good Idea
Comment by dchaudhuri — March 8, 2024 @ 10:03 pm
Dear Debu,
Very interesting, it reminds me of our situation. We uprooted & came to Kolkata as refugee just following partition. My father managed to buy a house in Hindustan Park, near Gariahat and close to comrade Joyti Basu’s house. Very priced location in south Kolkata. After wards, it modified to three storied with six more extra rooms to accommodate 15 family members.
However, moving out of native inhabitants to suburbs to make room incoming population is probably a common syndrome all over. As example, Bengalees migrating to other parts of India also occupied mostly coveted location. Indian immigrants are no different in USA being settled in verry affluent locations.
Let us cheers and hope WB will be benefitted by the change of guards.
Chunida
Comment by Chunilal Saha — May 6, 2026 @ 8:19 pm
Dear Debu,
Very interesting, it reminds me of our situation. We uprooted & came to Kolkata as refugee just following partition. My father managed to buy a house in Hindustan Park, near Gariahat and close to comrade Joyti Basu’s house. Very priced location in south Kolkata. After wards, it modified to three storied with six more extra rooms to accommodate 15 family members.
However, moving out of native inhabitants to suburbs to make room incoming population is probably a common syndrome all over. As example, Bengalees migrating to other parts of India also occupied mostly coveted location. Indian immigrants are no different in USA being settled in verry affluent locations.
Let us cheers and hope WB will be benefitted by the change of guards.
Chunida
Comment by Chunilal Saha — May 6, 2026 @ 8:19 pm