Jiboner Akibuki - The Strokes of life

Dr. Subramaniam Swamy of BJP, the man who has unearthed many conspiracies and scams in India has made another startling revelation in Merut on the eve of Nataji Birth anniversary.  He has dropped a bomb when he said at a function in Merut that Subhash Chandra Bose has not died of a  plane crash, ( A theory the congress wanted the Indian to believe) Instead he was killed in Russia, and Jawaharlal Nehru had a direct connection to this cold blooded murder. At the end of the World War 2 Netaji was declared a war criminal and Netaji ( Subhash Chandra Bose ) started looking for a safe place to move to, and continue his struggle for Indian Independence. He zeroed in on Russia as the safe heaven to carry on his fight ,  and moved to Manchuria (then was in control of Russia) and then went on to Russia. Russia however arrested Subhash Chandra Bose on the orders of Stalin ( committed similar crimes like Adolf Hitler but by virtue of being on the winning side of the war h...

26th January, 1944, Rangoon. India is celebrating its Independence Day. In a large mass gathering at the municipal building premises, Netaji is delivering his speech. In that mass gathering more than sixty thousand non-resident Indians were spellbound and overwhelmed by Netaji’s speech. In his speech Netaji appeals to the mass to make donations to create Azad Hind Fund which will help to fight against English and British imperialism. Netaji had proclaimed war against these two super powers in the midnight of 23rd October, 1943 just three months back. Netaji’s call has created an enormous hue and cry among the crowd. It was such a clarion call! Everyone yearns to sacrifice whatever they had. All the civilians are ready to be penniless and mendicants for raising funds for the Azad Hind Army to fight the enemy. U. Toy, an officer with the British Intelligence Bureau in his “The Spring Tiger” says - ‘in a public gathering on 29th May, 1944 Subhas Chandra had managed to accumulat...

The Rudraksh Mala is a necklace woven with the seeds of an evergreen tree of the same name that is used as prayer beads by a section of Hindu households. Most of such people are staunch devotees of Lord Shiva and chant various mantras during the day and night holding and counting these 108 beads by hand. These beads are said to have special spiritual and cosmic significance that can heal and cure mortal beings. It is felt that for a variety of reasons the number of beads that a Rudraksh mala holds is limited to 108. Twelve times eight makes 108. These two numbers have great significance for the Hindu religion as they are considered auspicious. Also, 108 adds up to 9 if the numbers are added individually (giving rise to the lucky 9). The great epic for Hindus, the Mahabharata, has mentioned 108 names for Lord Shiva and Lord Vishnu. Similarly, there are 108 names of Hindu Goddesses. There are Upanishads available which are 108 in number. This aspect of Indian mythology seems...

Marriages are made in heaven indeed, but dowry death, murder-suicide and bride burning are symptoms of peculiar social maladies, which have spawned like a "Black Plague". The word 'dowry' has been defined in The Dowry Prohibition Act 1961 which states that dowry means any property or valuable security given or agreed to be given either directly or indirectly by one party to the other party in a marriage to. If it is shown that soon before the death of a woman such woman has been subjected to cruelty or harassment for, or in connection with, any demand for dowry, the court shall presume that such a person has caused dowry death under section 304B, Indian Penal Code. Now cruelty as mentioned here above mean any willful conduct which is of such a nature as is likely to drive the woman to commit suicide or to cause grave injury or danger to life, or harassment to coerce her or any other person related to her to meet demand. Cruelty includes both physical and mental tortur...

Alzheimer’s Dementia Dementia is a process which erodes the cognitive functions of brain gradually. In simple words it hampers the proper functioning of mental operations in a person. There are not one but several reasons for dementia; Alzheimer’s Dementia is just one among them. All the exact causes for Alzheimer’s Dementia are still unclear but genetic compositions can be considered as one among the major causes. In most cases the cause leading to Alzheimer’s Dementia remains unknown, though dementia can be attributed to several other factors including multiple brain stroke, Hyperthyroidism etc, these dementias are not exactly Alzheimer’s Dementia so can’t be considered as a cause of Alzheimer’s Dementia This disease is generally associated to older age, the risk of getting affected therefore increases manifolds with our natural aging. It also affects people with less or no mental activities and can also be for hereditary reasons. Some symptoms, Complications and tr...

Yuva Bharati Krirangan also known as Saltlake stadium is one of the biggest in kolkata. Yuvabharti hosts football matches and other sporting events apart from cultural programs. This stadium has a capacity of 100000 spectators. The picture was taken while I went there to watch a derby match between traditional rival clubs the Kingfisher Eastbengal and Macdoweels Mohanbagan. For other great pics visit...

Some sculptures inside the modern temple of Baba Lokenath. The Modern Temple of Baba lokenath beside his ancestral house in Chakla. The Place where he used to perform Yagnas The Ancestral House of Baba Lokenath. Great souls have come to mankind to uplift their lives and the way to lead it. They have always inspired mankind to master the art of living in a way to stay close to purity and happiness. Sri Loknath Baba was one such eminent personality who still glitters in million of Bengali hearts. Amongst a few – a very few semi-legendary Hindu saints, who marked their names all across India and even abroad, Sri Loknath Baba was the one. Born on Janmastami (the birthday the Lord Krishna) in the year 1730 to a Bramhin family, just a couple of miles away from Kolkata, in a village of Chaurasi Chakla, Baba Lokenath Brahmachari grew up in the simplest way possible. His father Ramnarayan Ghosal and mother Kamaladevi soon realized that their little Loknath was a bit too different from the rest ...

I recently came upon a blog " India through the Eyes of An Indian " . It is quite interesting because its written in German. I had to translate it in English. Well contents are nice and thought provoking but its not only about India . Its got a wide variety of subject from hypnosis to richest Indians but translated pages are not fun to read. I had to read some of the articles very carefully (awesome grammar due to translation) but they were worth it. I think it could have been India oriented but over all its nice. Take look you wont be disappointed.

Some random pictures of Kolkata the City of JOY

Some Pictures I took from the bus, on my way home from Howrah station. Howrah Bridge or Rabindra Setu. Details Built 1937—1943 Location Kolkata, West Bengal, India Current status In use Crosses Hooghly river Type Balanced Cantilever Suspension Usage Road bridge Daily Traffic 150,000 vehicles, 4,000,000 pedestrians Builders * Rendel Palmer & Tritton * Cleveland Bridge & Engineering Co. Ltd Material Steel Tower height 82 m Number of spans 3 Length of spans 99.125 m 457.50 m 99.125 m Length of drop-in span 172.02 m

India being the largest democracy of the world with six decades of its existence is still in the infancy stage of basic infrastructure in the sense that the very specialized training course and institution to train the Top Political Managers (like elected members of Parliament, State Legislative Assemblies, State Legislative Council, the Hon’ble Ministers, Chairman of Board/Corporation etc) is still nonexistent. Also there is neither any mandatory practice nor constitutional provision in this regard. It is pity that to manage each and every segment of specialized institution both in Academic and Corporate sector, there are specialized training and refresher courses of specific kind of Management; likewise areas of Business Management, Banking & Financial Management, Human Resource Management, Personnel Management, Industrial Management, Forest Management, Environmental Management etc. But alas, the people who run all finer and key portfolios in Government system by virtue of being ...

UPA regime is a serious threat to the nation. It is, at the behest of Sonia Gandhi communalizing the Indian Political scene, to reap electoral benefits at the cost of the secularity and integrity of India. The UPA government in particular and some other local state governments allied to the communal rule of the UPA in general have made it a practice to doll out to sops for Muslims in the guise of minority development. These self serving politicians are all crying for reservations, for Muslims in all possible places of employment and other illogical Muslim appeasement policies, which will soon turn India into a society with two warring section of people Muslims and Hindus. It is a proven fact that and that also acknowledged by UPA regime’s appointed committee namely ‘Justice Sachhar committee report’ that the states ruled by the UPA or other pseudo secular parties like BSP,SP or for that matter CPM etc , that are always eager to shed crocodile tears for Muslims are lagging way behind...

A study conducted on behalf of World health organisation's International Agency for research on cancer found that hair dressers gets exposed to substances probably Carceogenic during their course of business. For which it was found that a male hair dresser is atleast 20%-60% more likely to be affected with cancer of the bladder compared with general population. who ever reads this is requested to inform their respective barbers about this occupational hazard so that they can be taking precautionary measures to safe guard them or at least minimise the risk.

I had suddenly decided to picture the moon one fine evening and took around 15 shots at the moon and only few were good enough to be identified as moon. I am putting two pictures here among those few, for my friends to see.

I have on my recent visit to Digha collected a small snake from the villagers who was about to kill it. I have kept it in a small glass jar but do not know what type of snake is it. If some one recognises it please let me know. Also indicate if you know anything about its care and maintainance.

Udaipur sea beach a small coastal fishing village near Digha in West Bengal, India. Grazing at the emptiness.....

Hi this is my darling Olive oil please let me know if you find her cute

21st February is one of the most significant day in Bengali calendar. It is "International Mother Language Day". Spanning back to the history, on 21st February, 1952 (8 Falgun 1359 – as it corresponds to the Bengali calendar), the police guns of East Pakistan' force went bang on a procession of students, thereby killing four of them, who set out with a demand to establish Bengali as the official language. This was an incident that occurred in Dhaka, when the nation wide revolution led to recognition of Bengali as an official language of Pakistan. But it was not until 17th November 1999 that UNESCO declared the day "21st February" to be the International Mother Language Day. At a public meeting on 21 March, 1948, the Governor General of Pakistan, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, declared that there could be no language, other than Urdu to be used as the national language for both East and West Pakistan. People of East Pakistan -- whose main language was Bengali – launched a ...

Charles Dickens who was one of the most successful English novelists of the Victorian era was actually called as Charles John Huffam Dickens in full. His works revolutionized the world of English literature in a unique way, with some subtle strokes of Victorian style with modern undertone. Generally young readers, of both gender and all generation are either static or destructively active. They seem to have lost the direction for the youthful energies, which can, if properly directed, achieve greatest happiness and prosperity for the greatest number. With these thoughts, if we have a glimpse on the life of Charles Dickens (Feb 7 1812 to June 9 1870), we may have bright bubbles of English literature of 19th century. Born at Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, in a middle class family, he was not only an eminent novelist of his age but also an influential spokesman of the conscience. Let's now have a brief glimpse on the origin of Charles Dickens. Starting off with one of his grandfather...