WritersOwnHome

Author : gautam maitra      Blog : Ahmedabadi Hotchpotch      Date : 1/7/2013 3:52:00 PM

'WELCOME TO A FOOL'S WORLD OF PEACE AND HAPPINESSBoth peace and happiness are rare commodities. Money cannot buy it. When you try to sell it, peace dies a natural death. So, come here for a non-commercial sit-out - a few minutes rest from daily chores into a world of utopia and creativity and futuristic sweet ambition.The Decorum Rules :Just be assured it is YOUR OWN HOME - ENJOY EQUAL RIGHT ...any of you, successful writer, failed writer, would be writers,fiction or non-fiction, in (...)'

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Writers and Places : WritersOwnHome Future Plan

Author : gautam maitra      Blog : Ahmedabadi Hotchpotch      Date : 11/2/2012 8:01:00 PM

'  Fantasy     Great News      Poem Chain             Greetings                          Art-DrawingsForthcoming  Worst News     Story Chain               Great Events                                &nbs(...)'

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The Land of Blue River :Chapter One

Author : gautam maitra      Blog : Ahmedabadi Hotchpotch      Date : 11/2/2012 2:09:00 AM

'The Land of Blue RiverThe image credit:Siddharth MSamrat never dreamt of making  this place, Ghudu,  his home. Born in a family carrying the stigma against doing petty jobs – the last few traces of babu-dom  culture still inhibited  Sunderbans, the land of blue rivers , rather the unwelcome attitude to small business and menial jobs are running for over three hundred years. Sitting  on an ancestral bed – made of  Burma teak wood  in the small flat (...)'

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Today is my last day

Author : gautam maitra      Blog : Ahmedabadi Hotchpotch      Date : 11/1/2012 3:20:00 AM

'Today is my last dayToday is my last day!The day I was born,I cried a lot with fisted hands.Today I am leaving in peaceOthers will perhaps cry.A body will tour to burning ghat A funeral ceremony would be held                                            Thirteen days laterAnd a (...)'

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Fear on the streets

Author : gautam maitra      Blog : Ahmedabadi Hotchpotch      Date : 10/30/2012 7:32:00 AM

';;;;;; ; ;;; Your printed name on identity card:A ticket to life and freedom,Or else, to death and witch-hunt.Fear on the streets,Faith would decide right to live;Suspicion of passer-by a survival trick! The women, children, the in-firms –All caged in !Armed “democracy” chasing on streets, Dragging them out from utopian dream. Help! Help! Help!No one listens! No God even!.Evils that surround the flesh feast Never know the joy of giving- the prime education is life-SnatchingStoo(...)'

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Keu Kotha Rakheni ( No one Kept their Promise)

Author : gautam maitra      Blog : Ahmedabadi Hotchpotch      Date : 10/25/2012 3:41:00 PM

'Poet Sunil Gangopadhyay (1934-2012) in Bengali '

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The Hobbit

Author : gautam maitra      Blog : Ahmedabadi Hotchpotch      Date : 10/3/2012 3:57:00 PM

'Guest Column: Siddharth[A few words about  this teenager school going artist who draws cartoons, writes poems on occasions and an avid reader whose book reviews are only for those that he likes. And, he is one of the Tolkein fans.]In the years gone by, till the 1920s, the world of English literature knew very few stories intended for young teenagers. There were many fairy tales for young kids, and a lot more for the older generations, but books for this reader group were far an(...)'

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India Sucks

Author : gautam maitra      Blog : Ahmedabadi Hotchpotch      Date : 9/9/2012 5:33:00 AM

'Giving birth to a child is painful whether it is cesarean or normal -the country that was born, still we wonder whether the independence was a British cesarean gift or a normal birth of a nation. But whatever way may be, the tryst with destiny was like walking on a thin rope - the anarchy that was set with the partition of south Asia and the riots, the migrations, the poverty, joblessness with a populous region of the globe that is always at the mercy of unc(...)'

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Author : gautam maitra      Blog : Ahmedabadi Hotchpotch      Date : 9/8/2012 1:57:00 PM

'Mr. Budhuram , when read, that a washing powder company was launching a time-freedom movement that made him curious....with studied silence yet keen interest he watched and got amazed !!! Gosh! The washing company flagged off a virtual time-freeing run on the net ...each one of the runners on their unique - go as you like style - are in fact sucking into the black hole of another contest routines another suck-in syndrome.....But anyway, Budhuram found the harsh truth - you may like (...)'

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An image of smiling, dancing Shark.

Author : gautam maitra      Blog : Ahmedabadi Hotchpotch      Date : 9/4/2012 4:49:00 PM

'Are you a swimmer?No.Then came, the little push on his back and a splash ….Jhooooppppp!!!!! and a shriek “Ohhhhhhhhh!!!”A floaitng towel with striped quote : Swim Like a Shark ,and an image of smiling, dancing Shark. Where is that guy! Where is that guy ? Questions and shouts from the nearby   He is a novice, boy! You shouldn’t!Two Life Scouts raced to the spot and dived deep…. Time passes….in seconds in side the water …but those above it, feel like minutes…Are they coming(...)'

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Marvellous Melbourne - city of fours seasons!

Author : gautam maitra      Blog : Ahmedabadi Hotchpotch      Date : 8/29/2012 3:02:00 AM

'Yes, Yessssssssss…..Now that the ticket is booked for a week of stay in the south-east corner of that country of Kangaroos, as we have been told since days of growing up,  we are relieved …I mean family is relieved as they would now plan out the baggage part and I have, as always, been to the task of doing a Sharlock  Holmes kinda scrutiny and find out the places that our family can spend the best of their time and thank me back for doing my job splendidly.My task was spel(...)'

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Eternal lovers

Author : gautam maitra      Blog : Ahmedabadi Hotchpotch      Date : 8/27/2012 3:38:00 PM

'Love Series III: Eternal lovers                   ILove, thou art the noblest of the instinct,Thou protect and share, tiny matters for care;Animals protect as we doBlood lines we always knowModern man first tied bonds                   Laced with emotion called love;Human groups in cages drummed celebration New face, new arrivals, new conquer enhance group’s elevation;Modern man (...)'

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A dialogue between Maha-Kal and a human - Debate on Marriage -LoveYaArrange -Love Series -II

Author : gautam maitra      Blog : Ahmedabadi Hotchpotch      Date : 8/27/2012 1:25:00 AM

'A dialogue between Maha-Kal and a human - Debate on Marriage -LoveYaArrange -Love Series -IIIn a chance darshan,  Mahakal, the God of Death and Time, with the owner of blog  AmDaBadi JhalMuri, we are happy to produce the highly controversial yet at times hilarious view points of Mahakal, for posterity. With due respect to His or Her Excellency Mahakal or Mahakali, here is a extract of a long interview on Love. In order to know the full details of the interview, please log (...)'

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Budhu’s Life Talk Lines - Marital Mode

Author : gautam maitra      Blog : Ahmedabadi Hotchpotch      Date : 8/24/2012 6:49:00 PM

'Budhu’s attempt to pull two Parallel Lines together Budhu was a poor guy who secretly desired to swim on a marriage boat to conquer poverty, that’s what his best friends Subodh and Sudeep had been vying, living in the mix neigbourhood of poor refugees floating in a place full of political rivalry, crisis about future and paucity of money. Budhu didn’t want to be a black sheep in a close knit group! There were Enaa-Meena-Dikas  - three daughters who used to ride a private Merece(...)'

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My Dadu

Author : gautam maitra      Blog : Ahmedabadi Hotchpotch      Date : 8/11/2012 3:17:00 PM

'My grand father always had smile on his face, as if the divinity had, by a hilarious design, sculpted a smiling portrait. No one saw him becoming angry. When we were small kids, and we had our family reunions at home, granddad - in Bengali we would call him “Dadu”- he would be sitting on his vintage Burma-teak bed, legs stretched and the back on an equally old hard pillow, ever smiling. In these days, Dadu had his pride barometer jump up one point while explaining to his grand-child(...)'

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Varsha’s Encounter ...

Author : gautam maitra      Blog : Ahmedabadi Hotchpotch      Date : 8/11/2012 12:54:00 PM

'[This fiction has been selected in All India popular Ezine Mag MuseIndia under  Fiction SectionHere is the link to mag   http://www.museindia.com/Here is the link to fiction section  http://www.museindia.com/regular.asp?id=41Here is the link to my story  http://www.museindia.com/regularcontent.asp?issid=41&id=3109 ]                                        &nbs(...)'

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Author : gautam maitra      Blog : Ahmedabadi Hotchpotch      Date : 8/11/2012 3:28:00 AM

'http://kolkataonwheelsmagazine.com/kolkata-history/road-history/park-street-the-street-that-never-sleeps/Park street : The Street that Never SleepsThe Street that Never Sleeps Going down memory lane, in the year 1767, the official burial ground within the St. Jones Church premises was facing a severe space crunch. It was on the 25th of August, 1767, when a new burial ground (now known as South Park Street Cemetery) was built on Circular Road. Since then, the connecting road came to (...)'

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Author : gautam maitra      Blog : Ahmedabadi Hotchpotch      Date : 8/11/2012 3:28:00 AM

'http://kolkataonwheelsmagazine.com/kolkata-history/road-history/park-street-the-street-that-never-sleeps/Park street : The Street that Never SleepsThe Street that Never Sleeps Going down memory lane, in the year 1767, the official burial ground within the St. Jones Church premises was facing a severe space crunch. It was on the 25th of August, 1767, when a new burial ground (now known as South Park Street Cemetery) was built on Circular Road. Since then, the connecting road came to (...)'

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History of Kolkata - and Briish struggle for a footing in Bengal

Author : gautam maitra      Blog : Ahmedabadi Hotchpotch      Date : 8/9/2012 5:18:00 PM

'Establishment of English Trade in Bengal (1600-1700)There is a long chain of events behind the arrival of British in Bengal, specifically Job Charnock in Sutanuti in 1690. These incidents are documented in numerous records of East India Company and by several authors [Bruce 1810 (Vol I and II), Marshman Vol I, Unknown 1829; see references below]. By going through the documents we find an amazing story of how they were severely beaten and wiped out from Bengal sev(...)'

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Confused with the new road names in Kolkata?

Author : gautam maitra      Blog : Ahmedabadi Hotchpotch      Date : 8/9/2012 3:09:00 PM

'Confused with the new road names in Kolkata? Many Road Names of Kolkata has beenchanged to the legendary personnel name in Kolkata in last few years. Wants to know the New Names of Kolkata Roads? Know the Old names of Kolkata Road and the newer names of roads in Kolkata below.Calcutta became Kolkata and in this way many Road names has been updated. Many ofus often get confused with the recent name and could not realize the place;immediately.Kolkata's Old Road Name & Ne(...)'

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