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July 6, 2021
Agnijaat and Agnishatdal Yearbook 2020
The year book of Agnijaat and Agnishatdal containing all the critiques the ezines received at one place, do check it out and decide if you can spend a bit on them and buy them! 
Hey canon your powershot cameras stink!
I sincerely hope that one of your hotshots will read this blog and will do something about it.
I love taking photographs in camera, not phones, all my smartphones have cameras but still when I want to photograph I pick up my canon camera.
Why canon not nikon or other makes? Because I love the colours that canon cameras offer.
Why not cellphone cameras that are much weatherproof and sturdier than canon cameras [way much weather proof and sturdier] because their picture quality is too worse than canon or any other digital camera. I have used Nikon too, a borrowed one, that is sadly no longer available.
Why am I grumbling then?
Well, I first used a canon camera regularly in 2015, a powershot, that is all I can afford! That too because they were gifted by my brother who was earning quite a hefty amount of salary back then. It was mediocre, actually quite mediocre in performance but had one advantage over the second one I used, it could take the photos of flying birds etc, very hazy but it captured them.
But getting its batteries was like tossing coins in a wishing well! That BTW applies for my new camera too! Bro bought one from USA after paying a whopping lot of extra money for that! Your Kolkata showrooms do not sell every battery for every canon camera! Awesome huh? Spend 500 bucks to go to Park Street where your showroom is to know that they don’t have the battery!
Well after we returned to Kolkata from Hyderabad I took a lot of rain photos and recklessly, then one fine morning the camera started taking white pictures, absolutely white, the video was working fine though, it took videos clearly with sound. It also took photos in darkness, like in dim light or bulb, tubelight etc, even in candle light! Finally it stopped completely within a couple of month.
I was given my next camera in 2019, another powershot it burnt whopping 20000 bucks – read it as only for a camera, I could buy a nice enough smartphone with that money with a camera. But no, I wanted to take really nice pictures so I was gifted with a photograph only gadget!
It worked nice enough for a year, and right before its first anniversary there was a cyclone in Kolkata and I took a lot of photos and videos, and I will clearly say that I stayed indoor and took care that the camera does not gets wet. Voila! Within a month I was gifted by white photos, perfect videos and night photography. Bro was still working so he took the camera to your showroom in Park Street after spending 500 bucks on taxi-fare [up and down] just because there was no lock-down and we were dreaming that covid will be gone for good before 2021, well the guy in showroom replaced the camera with a new one.
This time I treated it like a china doll, not the modern ones, the antique ones, when the next cyclone simply brushed by kolkata I took a few videos and rain shots taking strict care that my touch me not camera does not gets a drop of moisture on its precious body but voila! one fortnight and now I am suffering with white photos, the minute I zoom the photos become white, the videos are clear till date but they are soon going to go, I can feel it in the air.
The reason behind writing this whole book is draw your attention. If you really want people to buy more camera make them sturdy, you can, we know it and you know it, you do it to make people buy new camera every year. Well, in western countries that is possible, 22000 rupee is nothing for them, but in India 22000 rupee is LOT, MORE THAN A LOT! NO ONE WILL REFER A CAMERA THAT WILL CRASH AFTER USING ONE OR ONE AND A HALF YEARS!
FOR THE PHOTOGRAPHY LOVERS THE MAKE OF MY CAMERA IS: CANON POWERSHOT SX430 IS
DON’T BUY IT!
As for me I seriously am toying with the idea of giving up on canon cameras or cameras altogether and practice the cellphone cameras instead!
Scott Hastie’s Press Release!
Published with permission from author:
Scott Hastie is a successful British born poet and writer, who has been has been commercially published in the UK for over thirty years now. He currently has no fewer than fourteen titles in print, including a novel and eight collections of poetry, all of which also available in e book format.
Scott’s current poetry is very much a positive and sparkling affirmation of human potential, with a growing emphasis on spiritual awareness and, in recent years especially, the spiritual tone in his maturing poetic voice is starting to draw increasing acclaim and attention from a worldwide audience, especially in the U.S. Asia & the Middle East.
Given the sudden and unexpected impact made in 2013 by some of his work, first published in the soulful and beautifully designed anthology Meditations, a much more comprehensive collection of all his more recent work, entitled Angel Voices was soon brought forward for publication by Centuria the following year,
Then, only two years later in 2016 and somewhat miraculously, along came Threads… Quickly establishing itself as the signature collection of Scott Hastie’s poetry at that time… A real breakthrough volume, since widely translated and published to worldwide acclaim, covering as it does the sheer scale of this stunning poet’s sublime creative journey.
Scott then threw himself headlong into an extended period of personal spiritual investigation, the fruits of which eventually arrived in the form of an entirely fresh and significant collection of brand new work, entitled Pranic Poetry, eventually published in March 2020.
Seemingly always destined to be released at the very beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic, this volume really struck a chord with readers all around the world. Hence the accelerated release of his first fully retrospective collection Timeless: the best of Scott Hastie’s poetry 1990-2020 and it’s companion volume Splinters of Light: quotations from the poetry of Scott Hastie. The planned publication of both these titles soon being advanced by six months, into the autumn of the same year, to help satisfy the ever accelerating international demand for his work.
“It is at times like these that we need the fairest glimpses of hope, rejuvenation and a deeper understanding of the potential to realize our very best – especially in the face of such on-going adversity. Perhaps this is why Scott Hastie’s poetry achieves such an impact and is so well received around the world.“
“Scott Hastie’s writing inspires such clarity of thought, perception and heartfelt compassion for the emotional rainbow that is the human spectrum of existence, shedding multitudes of color and light where otherwise there might have only been storms, darkness, sorrow and pain, all without any real hope of joy and redemption.”
“Timeless is surely an appropriate trademark for some highlights of Scott Hastie’s body of work to date. After all, he has produced some of the most gallant and elegant poetry of the 20th & 21st Centuries.”
“As in deep prayer, the quotes in Splinters of Light will bring you to the depths within your soul. These are not quotes you can read only once. They will call you to write them and paste them on mirrors and desks as constant reminders of who you really are and the true meaning of your life. These quotes will feed you in places you didn’t know you were hungry. A marvellous poetic work.”
Interest grew to such a level following the publication of both Timeless and Splinters that it was quickly then decided to also re-issue his two earliest ‘Younger Man’ collections, Selected Poetry and New Poetry (first published in 1991 and 1995 respectively) as ebooks. Both of which also went on to receive levels of acclaim that only confirmed Scott Hastie’s new-found popularity around the world.
Fortunately, it is already very easy to freely dip into Scott Hastie’s poetic writing. Samples from his whole back catalogue of poetry are readily available at his highly visual and popular new web site, which freely displays samples of both his already published and latest unpublished work.
As a writer, Scott is very open and likes to encourage maximum participation and feedback from his readers. His web site offers the chance to post comments, both on individual pieces or more generally… The site encourages more general dialogue about writing and Scott offers mentoring services to other creative writers/students around the world.
Scott is also passionate about visiting and learning from other cultures and his web site offers the bonus of featuring many fascinating images and glimpses from his extensive travels around the world.
Features/Photos – contact Centuria – written proposal in the first instance please to centuria@hotmail.co.uk
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Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Hastie
Official website: http://www.scotthastie.com
Dalai Lama birthday.
Deepest respect to one of the living sages [in my eyes] of modern world, a great soul filled with purest wisdom.
Deepest respects to Dalai Lama, May your grace always bless us.
July 5, 2021
SBPnB May 2021
SBPnB May 2021
Sharmishtha Basu’s Pen n Brush
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This month SBPnB will share illustrated poetry.
Don’t forget to share your views, suggestions without any hesitation. My contact details are at the end of the book.
As you all know these are my creations, copyrighted works, you are free to use them as long as you treat them as my property-mention my name as the creator and leave a link to my blog and inform me with the details of your use (non-profit) or discuss the financial side if you like them enough to publish them in your ezine, blog etc to sell.
With best regards and wishes.
Sharmishtha Basu
16.3.21
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A poem from the book
To the protesting farmers of India who have been suffering under open sky since December 2020 against an unjust law and cruel government!
July 4, 2021
Coming Kingdom May 2021
Coming Kingdom May 2021
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Kingmaker is stalled for this year. You can read part one of Kingmaker in Kindle if you are interested-
Lucifer’s Liegemen- Kingmaker
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Upcoming Kingdom will share few shorties this month, some series, some full. The topics are of course fantasy mainly! Muse is bubbling with enthusiasm! Hop aboard, let us fly!
Share your views, your tips and if you want me to add something in it, exclude something from it… feel free to tell me!
You have all the details in the final few pages! You know the drill about copyrights, these are my works, copyrighted so if you want to share them in your blog or site please ask me, and send me a link after you have shared it so I can use that for my promotional ventures.
Happy Reading!
Sharmishtha Basu
7.5.21
July 3, 2021
Come smile with me 4.7.21
have a great day full of joy and laughter!
lots of Love.
Sharmishtha Basu
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Agnishatdal Jyeshtha 1428, May 2021
Agnishatdal Jyeshtha 1428, May 2021
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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
Manju Balkrishna: https://beyondcbse.wordpress.com
Scott Hastie https://scotthastie.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
July 2, 2021
Agnishatdal Book 15, Ponchishe Boisakh
Agnishatdal Book 15, Ponchishe Boisakh
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This quarterly is sharing some works of Labanya, a cherished creator of Agnishatdal, her works and critiques are priceless gift to the Ezine. Her works are accompanied by a set of artworks by the creator, Sharmishtha Basu, you can find these artworks in her art store too.
Labanya’s works are in one word exquisite. Her poems are in Bengali but their English translation by Sharmishtha is also in the book.
Agnishatdal you know is a monthly English Ezine created by a group of amazing people scattered all over the world, they create as per their whim so their creations are unpredictable and awesome! You will have to read the books to understand fully.
You know that these works are copyrighted.
Do let us know your opinion of the book .
Love.
Sharmishtha Basu
7.5.21
July 1, 2021
Agnipat, May 2021
Agnipat, May 2021
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Agnipat will share a set of digital paintings each month, this month a flock of butterflies. Hope you will enjoy these colourful sketches.
I used to give Agnijaat and Agnishatdal for $2 before. You can buy them from my bookstores in shoptly and gumroad.
Agnijaat (Fireborn) is a monthly English Ezine that follows Bengali Calendar. You will get lots of illustrations, poems, stories, thoughts, light and serious essays, cartoons, and a dash of spiritualism in this ezine, every month. I try to keep it as versatile as possible because I love creating different types of things! So when it comes to writing or painting I play by the same rule. Just check out a few to understand their worth! Subscribe for a year, it won’t burn your pocket I promise!
Agnishatdal too is a monthly English Ezine created by a group of wonderful artists and authors from all across the world. The contents of this ezine is versatile like its authors.
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
Manju https://beyondcbse.wordpress.com
Scott Hastie https://scotthastie.com
Labanya, Citizen Null, Saptarchi, Bitter Pill, and Sharmishtha Basu
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https://agnishatdalezine.wordpress.com https://agnijashatadalama.wordpress.com
One Year subscription for Agnijaat/Agnishatdal is $10. If you Subscribe for both it will be $17. You will get the Ezines each month and the quarterlies and annual issues for free.
Price of each issue is $1 for each Ezine.
If you want to read it you can try one of these methods:
To subscribe:
1. You will have to pay via paypal https://paypal.me/sharmishthabasu and send me your email id sermistabasu@gmail.com informing me about your payment and how many issues you want to buy. I will send you your Ezines in that email id.
2. Or you can buy the issues directly from https://shoptly.com/sharmishthabasu Or Gumroad: https://gumroad.com/sharmishthabasu after I put them up there each month.
3. They cost $1.00 each issue and $11.00 for annual subscription via paypal. That will include free quarterlies and annual digests.
4. You can also become my patron here: https://patreon.com/sharmishthabasu to read them, the site will allow you to download.
5.Buy me a coffee or two and get them from buymeacoffee- https://buymeacoffee.com/sharmishthabasu
6. Or buy the books directly from me https://www.paypal.me/sharmishthabasu (don’t forget to mention the book you are paying for in case you use paypal @ sharmishthabasu@hotmail.com) I will send you the pdf file of the book. They cost $1.00 each issue.
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