Friendship Day !!

It has been wonderful to have you as my best friend who tries to understand my feelings and respect them You will always be my best friend, I know there will be times when we'll fight over small matters But you know that is what friendship is all about. You fight and then you laugh - you cry in each…

Forever ….

A man lives forever ... if not in person but through his work - he lives forever. Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay is one of my favorite Bengali writer .... though my bengali is poor (it takes me about 20 minutes to read a page) but still I try to read and enjoy his descriptive way of writing. In his stories one can…

Holud Angoor (Shomrali phool)

Kemon holud hoye aachhe rasta-r dui dhar. Mone-mone bhabi - dekhechhe ki ke-o holud angoor gachh? Bhabi ! Gachhe thoka-ye thoka-ye jhulchhe ya hawa-ye hawa-ye dulchhe tara. Shundor bashonti rong tade-r gaye-r ya - phanpha phanpha papri mela ango tader. Dekhte  bhari moja-r lage. Kemon holud hoye aachhe rasta-r dui dhar. Yemon phor-chhe jhule yenka benka dal-er theke - jeno…

Collections of R. K. Narayan

One of my favourite written is R. K. Narayan. I read some of his novels n liked them all. All his novels are execllent but among them my favourite are : "The Swami & Friends"  (his 1st novel - 1935) , "The English Teacher"  (3rd novel - 1945) , "The Guide" - 1958, "The Man-Eater of Malgudi" - 1962 ,…