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Poem Title : "Ho! Ho! Ho!".  Children Poetry on Christmas. Written by : Gautam Maitra.              Read by : the author           The Podcast Link 👇 ttps://anchor.fm/kaalbaisakhi/episodes/Childrens-Poetry-on-Christmas--Audio-series--Children-poetry-Language--English-e1au0l9

Sample screen shot. Thank you, readers for making it a popular book of short stories.

 Hello readers  Morning Greetings with a piece of my thought. Big house small family, More degrees but less common sense, Advanced medicine but poor health, Touched the moon but neighbours untouched, High Income but less peace of mind, High IQ but less emotions, Good knowledge but less wisdom, Lot of humans but less humanity.

Voices of socially disempowered hegemonic positions Gautam Maitra, a bilingual writer is a prolific storyteller in weaving stories that are a kaleidoscope to life with objective experiences only to give us a myriad vision of the Indianness that strives for existence. Set in the turmoils of South Asia, Floating Towel and a dozen Short Stories visualizes the trajectory of family relationships, disenchantment, violence, greed, the changing lifetimes and abject senselessness of fanaticism. It is a fabric of a middle-class person namely Budhu, an archetype, an epitome of normalcy – a person so deeply rooted in the attitudes, customs and feelings of a native Bengali middle-class man that it could essentially be an alter-ego of any Indian Joe. Maitra’s Floating Towel and a dozen Short Stories, a compilation of various short stories that were written across the span of two decades, is divided into twelve chapters with the life and times of the protagonist Budhu in the depiction of existential

Year: 2008 City: Pune Location: Pune Railway Station Main Platform Capture: Sonyerricson Z550i Mobile Camera Theme: Celebration of Life. Its ceaseless flow through human routes on earth. One of the best places to watch life and feel charmed is the Indian railway platform - manifested through the capture of walking shoes, walking legs - moving in varied direction, varied sizes and in varied speed. It was evening so darkness had descended on the platform. Illuminated through not so bright platform lights - the moving feets preach the essence of life - mobility. https://futurewindow24x7.blogspot.com/2010/09/year-2008-city-pune-location-pune.html

  Rain and the sparrows  An extract from 'Mirror of Time - An Anthology of Poems'  ...... A family of half a dozen sparrows flutter wings on a rain-bathed Ashath tree . Today they might have to live without a meal. The rain has forced the daily bread-fetchers to remain indoors. Rain helps lives, but rain unsettles lives too. ...... To Be Continued 

  An extract from   My Choto Pishe :   A boyhood memoir  - Goutam Moitra    It’s a song that is lost in the winds of the earth. But the winds still carry a few reveries of that journey. He swam in the lake in the odd mornings of summer and a few times I was lucky to accompany him. He swam with ease while I struggled with my strokes. One time, I was on the brink of being drowned. That saviour hand stretched to get a hold of me in that moment. But his face would not make you feel that it could turn so serious with the deep waters welcoming me into their womb. On school holidays, we would visit his house so often. His house that was just a quick stroll away on a route and in those days  people loved to stroll through it. And  if it was a morning,  a barber would be sitting with his tools on call in the visitor’s room attending to him , as he leisurely lay down. In those days, children were often rebuked for listening to Radio-stations airing anything other than the local programs - the S

 Today is the birth anniversary of this great Bengal renaissance poet Modhusudhan Dutta and the father of Bengali modern poetry. Michel Modhusudan Dutta(1824-1873) and his immortal  book of poetry  'Meghnadbadh'  (1861) are always breathed  together .Retelling the epic through a modern ballad and is one of the renaissance tradition challenging the myth and  a section of the poem we are reading in school text book for generations. Meghnad was a tragic hero in Ramayana. He was slayed by Lakshmana brutally, while he was worshiping Goddess Nikumvilā, in the royal temple of Lanka, because of betrayal by Vibhishana, who was an uncle of Meghnad. Meghnad asked Lakshmana not to fight with an unarmed person, rebuking him as a coward; but Lakshmana did not hear him. This unfortunate hero twice endangered Rama as well as Lakshmana but could not survive himself in this unfair battle. This is the central theme of this epic. Meghnad was a patriot, a loving husband, a caring son and a friend t

 🙏🙏🙏🙏 Dual and NonDual existence of beings ....Vivekananda progressed through his life as a proponent of duality of existence - self and the God ...Then through  the rigorous introspection and scriptural search , took the Adi-Shankaracharya's path of Adaiyabad ( non-dualism) where every search ends at self - me as the manifestation of super consciousness , the  Brahman. Ramakrishna's Kali  idol worship was a medium to reach the inner state of consciousness - samadhi -  the state of bliss.  Vivekananda began his life as an atheist and when came in contact with Ramakrishna , he attained a sudden state of bliss, when one day Thakur touched his chest  with his foot. And he cried , ' aa tumi ki korle,Thakur !'  That day Vivek attained a near  bliss state -  only the rarest of beings are tuned to attain such state even without going through the painstaking  method of Progress ( - a process of disciplined living and following meditational routines ). We learnt from his chi