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Durgaa Pujaa 2025

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  Here are all the photos of our hopping of Durga Puja 2025, with husband and friends. We enjoyed the pandals and Durga Mata idols of Behala, Tollygunge and other sides. All the decorations were very catchy and done by a lot of effort. We enjoyed at mela - phuchka,papri chaat and ice cream. We had fruit juice as you see in the picture,and got to view a Shitala Mata Mandir where the idol has grown bigger from a very ancient time. We got to see Four handed Maa Durga called BHARAT MATA DURGA near Behala. We went to Diamond harbour on a long bike ride and enjoyed whole night journey. At restaurant we had dinner. Saptami, Astami and Nabami - the all three day enjoyment is a mesmerizing memory now. Hope coming years all will be beautiful like now.

How to learn proper Bengali and Hindi

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 Bengali is my mother language and Hindi is the National language of India.  Speaking any language properly, is very much dependent upon communication, interaction with the language and its native speakers.  In which community you live helps you to speak that language fluently,be it your mother tongue or other family of language. Writing Bengali or Hindi depends on the study of alphabets and grammar.You can learn Bengali and Hindi more fast if you have passion for them.  Sanskrit is the mother language of Bengali and Hindi. So ,if you have the knowledge of Sanskrit, you can go deeper to Bengali and Hindi. Being a Bengali I can confidently speak it and same is the case with Hindi, though it's not my mother tongue. Bengali literature is so rich that it attracts even the foreigners to realise and study it more deeply. Bengali songs and singers have won international respect and so is the case with Hindi. It's a deeper ocean that one have to dive into to feel the charm o...

The Arandhan Day 2025

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 This time we celebrated the worship of cooking that is ranna pujo. Arandhan at the day of Vishwakarma Puja is very much popular in Bengal community. This day we don't cook or use the fire and worship the earthen oven. The panta vaat that is rice soaked in cold water and fried vegetables, coconut fry,daal chachchari all are cooked on the previous day and served to the guest at the day of Arandhan. I and my husband along with friends went to another friend 's house to meet together on this auspicious day. We had a lot of fun. Have the prasad and all the items eating together.  We all chatted, sang different kinds of songs,my husband sang with track and mouth piece and I danced Rabindrik nritya at the party. We went there at afternoon and returned home at 9 pm evening.  The day became memorable really.

BHARAT NATYAM DANCE

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  Bharat natyam dance form is one of the ancient dance forms of India. Its basic postures called " aadaau " had been derived from the postures of THE BOOK KAMASUTRA BY BAATSAYAN ( CHANAKYA ). It's bending your legs in halfseat posture and stretching your hands and neck - this the dance form starts. In South India "The Devdaasi prathaa" was predominant from the very yore. Devdaasi performance in front of The Idol of Gods was common on those days. It was pure Bharat natyam dance that they performed. Then the kings and courtiers started to exploit those Devdaasis.But the dance form continued. It's a very strict dance form which starts with " kudittumettu aadaaus", Ganesh Bandana, Torium mangalam, Aalaripu,Jotiswaram,Shabdam,Barnam,Padam, Tillana.These are the stages the student should cover to learn Bharat natyam dance. Kalakhetra and Tanjore are the two most dominant styles which we follow. Kalakhetra focus on the science of Bharat natyam dance. Its...

A Special kaablichana Recipe

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 Ingredients - Kaabli chana, kudli ( a special vegetable which looks like a small potol ), chopped onion, green chilli pieces, refined oil, sugar, salt, red chilli powder, vinegar, green chilli sauce, black pepper powder, water.  Process -  Heat a little refined oil,then fry swelled and boiled kaablichana , chopped onion, raw kudli pieces . Add salt, green chilli pieces,chilli powder, vinegar, green chilli sauce one after another while frying. Then add a little water to boil the kudli. Add sugar last of all, after boiling. Keep a little gravy. Sprinkle black pepper powder while serving. It's full of vitamin and protein, goes very good with Roti or Rice,at lunch or dinner.

ABOUT BEAUTY PRODUCTS( My Experience )

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 Sun and nature is directly controlling our beauty consciousness. The whole world is using nature power to protect the skin and hair from Sunray, dust, pollution and other damaging agents. It's obvious that high degree of Sunray can damage your skin and hair. But always applying sunscreen is not good too. I have experienced using Sunscreen lotion and creams providing Good effect but once you leave to use it ,your skin damages more fast.  I have experimented a lot with home remedies and market products with reasonable price. So, I can say it is more useful to make your skin and hair healthy by using sour card,egg, henna, sandalwood paste, cucumber juice, potato juice , Tomato and other fruit juice, multani mitti,rice powder and Then expose it to sun.  It strengthens your skin and hair type protecting from the UV ray. Depending on some beauty products is necessary but over dependence is harmful.It can make you panicked about beauty.  Cleaning you hair and skin is very ...

The Happy Sea (nonsense genre)

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 Hey happy sea,how are you? We are near you, touching you, helping you to flourish more........ Hey happy sea .... you are so charming ...so vast and innocent..... rushing to the shore.... Your beauty is your wealth...... You are the shelter of shells, whales, jellyfish, octopus and so on... You can devour the land..... causing Tsunami...but you remain silent and salient....so many volcanoes are hidden underneath . Yours is the heart of devastating calm.... yours is the duty of nurturing the world charm. You give birth to wave after wave....the crushing and crunching is like the manifestation of the universe . You are the source of mystery.... source of imagination.... expected mermaid story.... yours another name is whale home... You are a genius of the property and land . Yours is the to and fro from hand to hand..