Kashi Yatra On 21st June, 2023, I suddenly felt a jolt that shook me to the chore and that very night I took a bus from Kashmiri Gate heading towards Varanasi. I met a young boy who was from Varanasi and he was saying that it can be fatal as heat wave is taking toll […]
Almost two years back, I wrote about Rani Rashmani Debi and her journey. How keenly she fought to establish the Dakhineshwar Kali Mandir. And I have been trying to understand Shri Gadadhar Chattopadhyay since my childhood. Well, Shri Gadadhar Chattopadhyay later became Thakur Shri Shri Ram Krishna Paramhanshadeb. From books and tales, I have been […]
Yog and Vyog. The complimentary form of each other. In fact, Yog is the basic way of calculation. Let me explain. In my final year project in B. Tech at IIT , Kharagpur, I was assigned to develop a software program about Conditional Sum Adder. In many ways , this Adder design was more efficient, […]
Back in October 2013, I visited Panchlingeshwar. It is in Balasore, Odhisha. Eastern coast line of India, famous as Coromandel Coast. Odhisa was not unknown to me prior to that visit. I just crossed my days of infancy, in 1991, I visited there, with my family. That time our places of visit were Puri, Konarak, […]
Today is the birth anniversary of a legend, Vishwakavi Rabindra Nath Tagore. A Poet. A Humanist. A Novelist. A Philosopher. A Great Story Teller. Almost 16 years back, I read “Gora”, a novel of Tagore. After reading that, I obtained a different point of view about human identity, altogether. I wonder is there any concept […]
Monks who followed Sanatan, usually clad in Saffron called as Sadhu- Sant , played major role in our history time to time. Some of them take oath of celibacy at the very young age. If we go through the history of Rajputana, there we see them as Warriors. They faught for the Rajput Kings […]
When I read the novel Kapalkundala by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, I read a line ,”Bibaho Stree Loker Dhormer Prothom Shopan, Jaganmatao Shiber Bibahita” which means “Marriage is the first step of a woman towards Dharma, The Supreme Godess is also married to Shiva”. I was hardly 13 years old that time. My mother tounge is […]
I am a Hindu. By Birth, By Faith. My family never imposed it on me. As they strictly believe that faith is a very personal matter. Matter of our conscience. Although since my childhood I witnessed various Hindu festivals, but never ever in my life I felt that if I don’t perform the rituals I […]
Being myself 