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October 11, 2020
Agnishatdal Ashwin 1427 September 2020 critique by Labanya
Agnishatdal Ashwin 1427 September 2020
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Critique by Labanya
Agnishatdal Ashwin 1427 September 2020
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Hi friends, let us begin!
Ashwin issue begins with tribute to Mother Teresa, the things she have done for the poorest of poor in India, especially Kolkata is beyond thanks. May her soul rest in peace in heaven!
The great Indian Nautanki by saptarchi: Well one will say that Corona proved Saptarchi right, we indeed are in the hands of a bunch of clowns who have no capacity of running a huge nation at the time from crisis.
Fogline by Brieuc Martin Onraet 6: Another fun piece on how human beings were made in heaven’s laboratory.
When Gold went on a trip by Raghunandan Kuppuswamy: This was a great story, loved the happy ending.
Meera Chase by Troy David Loy: Another piece on Troy’s favorite, Meera, sounds like an interesting character.
You cannot grasp… by Dom Collucci: another wise and beautiful poem by Dom Collucci.
Bitter Pill dose 35 by Bitter Pill: Secular India 2: Congress have always treated Hindus as step children and minorities as vote bank, it is their fault that India is now being run by fanatics.
Crows 5 by Brendan: Beautiful peace. The feelings of the narrator could be felt so vividly. Well written! A beautiful union of two spirits captured very well.
The Tilbaroo station by Pat Ritters 3: The love between the newly wed is so gently and beautifully described in this piece.
Treats:
Happy birthday Mr. Loy, May God bless you with a healthy, happy and beautiful life! Have a day filled with love and happiness.
4 lovely shots- from Agni’s August photography loved them all.
It is a very nice gesture to share the request made by her friends in Linkedin, you can never tell who may get interested in one of their offers. I just sifted through them, not into this line so…
Hollywood by Pat Ritter: Sounds like a new type of story.
Pikatron by Troy David Loy sounds like a great reading material with fractals as added beauty!
SBs’ book in amazon, Lucifer’s liegemen sounds like a serious crime novel.
Star of the Month Gauhar Jaan- Will have to check out her songs in YouTube asap.
Star of West Will Smith: Will Smith is pretty cute and have given us some enjoyable movies.
Star of east Smita Patil- A true gem of Hindi art movies.
Youtubia-Ravish Kumar- Watched a few episodes, he is very honest and caring.
Minutes Together: Spice was fun to read.
Loved the Bengali poem and the hindi poem both. Thank you for adding my work Dhaki in your ezine Agni.
Bharat- To leave your kingdom and all your wealth to pursue salvation and getting caught by love for a tiny fawn!
TnW- Love is heaven’s bliss.
Scaredy Stick- True again Mr. Stick, your fears are quite valid.
The sketches all through the ezine were pretty, very colourful and lovely.
That is it I guess! See you again next month, and thank you Agni/Sharmishtha for translating my works!
Yours sincerely,
Labanya
Photography Trip 5 11.8.20 shot 6
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lots of Love.
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October 10, 2020
Agnishatdal Ashwin 1427 September 2020
Agnishatdal Ashwin 1427 September 2020
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Authors of Agnishatdal
Agnishatdal is an English monthly Ezine blessed with selfless affection of its creative group, these selfless authors, artists have shared their wonderful creation for free and no matter how much I try to thank them for this gift, it will be nothing! Here they are (No order please, just the names as they appeared in mind) :
Brieuc Martin Onraet https://equinoxio21.wordpress.com
Dominic Collucci: http://zen-inspirations.blogspot.com/
Raghunandan Kuppuswamy https://ksriranga.wordpress.com
Troy David Loy http://troythulu.net
Pat Ritter http://www.patritter.com.au
Brendan https://paddypiccasso.wordpress.com
Labanya
Citizen Null
Saptarchi
Bitter Pill
and
Sharmishtha Basu
https://agnijaat.wordpress.com
https://agnishatdal.wordpress.com
https://agnishatdalezine.wordpress.com
https://agnijashatadalama.wordpress.com
Photography Trip 5 11.8.20 shot 5
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Come smile with me 11.10.20
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October 9, 2020
How much longer will the dalits be oppressed in India?
How much longer will the dalits be oppressed in India while other dalits who have broken free of that vicious circle will watch as mute spectators?
It is more than seventy years since our much hyped freedom, we have our own governments and police then how can these atrocities happen and go unpunished? Bad things will happen, no one can prevent them but if they go unpunished then thugs and monsters will rule the country [We are almost there already!]
The ghoulish monstrosity of the Hathras case woke the nation up, but every week we read about atrocities against dalits,the women are always the easier target, have always been so their no. naturally is higher, much higher. The question is when will the administrations start doing their duties and the dalits themselves will wake up and start saving themselves! Even when the entire country is boiling against this atrocity a dalit woman committed suicide in Madhya Pradesh after police refused taking her FIR, the corpse of another dalit child was discovered some place else!
Not all dalits are helpless, the ones in West Bengal are quite mighty and very often thugs, so why are not they helping other dalits? Fighting for their rights? Forcing the other states to treat their brothers and sisters as human beings? If they want their voices will be heart. Because dalits of West Bengal are not helpless, sometimes I feel the high castes are ;p How can such monstrosities still happen in a state that was run by a dalit government [Mayawati], what did she do to uplift the social position of these helpless people when she had all the power of the state?
The administration maybe worthless but dont forget that Indian law has given dalits many advantages and benefits, when are you going to utilize them and rise up? If high-castes had those special benefits they would have most probably turned India into a magic-land or Nazi Germany. So please break out of your inferiority complex and take what is rightfully yours!
As for administration, look at those victims and then feel very ashamed of yourself! Really, as much ashamed as you can feel! Those helpless women and men come begging at your door seeking justice against a clear injustice and you throw them out of the police stations and your offices! You guys are truly amazing! Beyond words amazing! Hope and pray you will reap your karma while you are alive!
Agnimalya September 2020
Agnimalya September 2020
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Hope you are enjoying the stories, do let me know if you want something in particular. I will try!
This month Agnimalya contains a bunch of stories of different sizes. Their genres is mixed, fantasy, spooky and human darkness.
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Happy Reading!
With best regards and wishes.
Sharmishtha Basu
16.9.20
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October 8, 2020
black day for India!
30th September 2020 was a black day for India in my eyes. For two ghoulish reasons-
one, a nineteen year old girl working with her mother in field [most probably in broad daylight] was abducted by four MFBs and was violated and tortured with the ghoulishness that only human beings can inflict on others, we will wait and see if these four so called high-caste MFBs will get their dues as quickly as those four bus helpers and their friends got in notorious Delhi case. Because these MFBs too tortured that child with the same ghoulishness with which the Delhi girl was, the step that everybody’s favorite U.P. police did was beyond words!
They burned the girl’s body without allowing her family to be there. Now they are claiming that the girl was not violated to begin with, only murdered brutally.
Next they will prove that the girl did not existed in the first place! This is the best example of lawlessness!
Let us hope that this should be the beginning of the end and the people of UP will unite to save their own home from this darkness and the rest of the country will help.
Not only that, let us hope that some other decent state will give shelter to that family that is being constantly threatened by the police and the high and mighties of the state [they even have been caught in video and that video has become viral], along-with protesting against the bestiality they will do something for that family who are being threatened by mighties that the press will be gone but they will have to live in the same state! I really hope that they will do something while that family is still alive! That will be much better!
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Second is after all the bloodbath and destruction caused by post-babri mosque demolition the same UP government has given clean chit to those who have been caught in the act by TV camera. Now we are being told that the kingpins of the demolition had no role at all in the demolition, most probably the mosque just had enough of its mortal existence and decided to crumble down!
Babari mosque was a heritage building, so destroying heritage buildings and getting away with that is alright now in this country, well, the Muslim bretherns may feel a bit less angry if they come to know that the same Ram Janmbhoomi trust demolished a heritage Ram Temple too that was kept under the carpet by great Indian media, this one was a temple that has held puja of Ram for more than a thousand year. A little balm maybe! It is all about the throne of India, religion has nothing to do with it!
One truly wonders if our current government is being paid by someone to absolutely destroy the law and order of this country and prove to the entire world that this country is being run by thugs and ruffians and those who obey the masters will get away with every thing! Including rape, rioting, murder and embezzling lot of public money!
The way the image of India is going downwards, especially that of Hindus is tragic. Centuries of slavery did not damaged the reputation of India and Hindus the way it has been damaged in last decade! Please open your eyes Indians esp. Hindus!
When they came for the darkies, I didn’t say anything
for I was not a darkie.
When they came for the low castes, I didn’t say anything
for I was not a low caste
When they came for the maimed, I didn’t say anything
for I was not maimed
When they came for the women, I didn’t say anything
for I was not a woman
When they came for the minors, I didn’t say anything
for I was not a minor
When they came for the weak, I didn’t say anything
for I was not weak
When they came for me, no one said anything
for there was no one left to speak!
A POEM FROM NAZI ERA
DEDICATED TO ALL THOSE WHO SUPPORT EVIL THINKING IT WILL SPARE THEM!!!!
Agnijaat Ashwin 1427 September 2020 critique by Labanya
Agnijaat Ashwin 1427 September 2020
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Critique by Labanya
Agnijaat Ashwin 1427 September 2020
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Agnijaat Ashwin begins with Mahalaya greeting, a pretty and simple one. Wish you all a very blessed Mahalaya!
There is a malmas or a month in which there won’t be any auspicious activity after Mahalaya, so Durgapuja will happen in end October. I don’t recollect it happening ever before.
Indie Author Speaks: Covid19 has taught too many bitter lessons to the world. But it had taught us about goodness in people too, there are so many out there helping others, not caring about their own safety.
FTQFS: Another piece of gem from the quill of a single woman. Society certainly does not like chaste women who stay single. They suffer the wrath of the society in its full ugly fury.
Techbabble: Don’t have a facebook account or blog or twitter handle. Not really very savvy with social media sites. I still prefer face to face talk or phone-calls.
Corona diaries and Kolkata blues: People have so many prejudices against some poor animals and birds, bat are pretty high-ranking in human hatred list. Now they are being blamed for Corona too, what is new! There are jerks who love to spread rumour without caring about the disastrous consequences. They always succeed in harming others. Kolkata blue was true again.
SOS: Absolutely agreed, sometimes I too think that God saves us by not giving us a few things we desperately begged for.
Intriguing Tales: This was a sad story, how a noble man suffered hell just because he rushed a judgment against a very vindictive and powerful sage.
History of India: Another interesting piece of Indian history, the maritime side of Indian army and other things in the era of kings and nawabs.
My Pen: wake up India 1: This one conveys some very serious thoughts about current scenario of India, the unholy matrimony of press and rulers of India are poisoning the country very rapidly.
Fun and Frolic section:
His life worth living by Pat Ritter: This one sounds like a great, fascinating story.
SBPnB Book 9 flowers: Sounds like a beautiful book with lots of illustrations. Maybe, I will ask for these books in return of critique.
Pikatron March 2019 critique by Editor: Will have to get the newsletter from Agni.
Top ten writers: Well, have read works of most of the authors in her list, excluding Louis L’Amour and Isaac Assimov. Being a book worm have enjoyed their works too.
Indian Raga Now:
Kabban Mirza- He is a great singer, wonder why he did not sing more!
SPOTLIGHT ON- Anne Murray- Will have to check out her songs and see.
Window to West – wake the witch: Will see if I can get it in YouTube. Sounds like a spooky movie.
Bhadra Shot: Four gorgeous shots, maybe Agni should add a few more from the next issue onwards.
Youtube channel: Already checked them all out.
Storytime: Sednians from Patreon: Bewitched from SBPnB sounds like Karma!
Mahalaya: There are so many memories revolving around this festival.
Theme: Sirens- Seven beautiful paintings.
The cartoon Mr Stick: These days have proved that some people never change! They just can’t help being utterly corrupted.
In the end quite enjoyed the Ezine, and its colourful sketches/paintings especially they are refreshing and pretty!
That is it I guess! See you again next month, and thank you Agni/Sharmishtha for translating my works!
Yours sincerely,
Labanya
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