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November 11, 2020

Agnimalya October 2020

Agnimalya October 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 short stories. Hope they will entertain you. Their genres as usual are mixed, fantasy, spooky and of human darkness.


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. Just let me know!


Happy Reading!


With best regards and wishes.

Sharmishtha Basu

16.10.20

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Published on November 11, 2020 22:42

November 10, 2020

Agnijaat Kartik 1427, October 2020 critique by Labanya

Agnijaat Kartik 1427 October 2020

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Critique by Labanya


Agnijaat Kartik 1427, October 2020

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Agnijaat Kartik begins with Durgapuja greeting, a pretty and simple one. Wish you all a very blessed Durgapuja and upcoming festive seasons. Stay safe and celebrate with caution.


Indie Author Speaks: It is a really good tip, and I am planning to keep a note too. I will try to jot down my plans for future and what happened to them meticulously.


FTQFS: Another piece of gem from the quill of a single woman. There are these pathetic losers all over the world that love to corrupt good people for fun better beware if you are good!


Techbabble: Everyone possesses a smartphone these days and majority have linked their financial transactions to it, what a joy it must be for hackers and freeloaders!


Servitude and Kolkata blues: Quite interesting point of view indeed, if one looks back one will agree with the authoress that it is us Indians who kept us slaves to British, not British, they were far outnumbered by us! In Kolkata blues a harsh reality of West Bengal have been exposed. How it has been sold away by corrupt politicians post-independence.


SOS: Absolutely true, no one is without pain, we should remember it when we are in pain.


Intriguing Tales: Foot in mouth- loved the story! I have not read the story of Shumbha and Nishumbha before, have heard their names only.


History of India: Another interesting piece of Indian history, about population density of different regions and reasons of that.


My Pen: wake up India 2: This one too 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. Anyone who reads newspapers or checks out news sites can see how they are misguiding people. No one will have to point it out to them.


Fun and Frolic section:


Hollywood by Pat Ritter: This one sounds like a great, fascinating story.


SBPnB Book 10 flowers: Sounds like a beautiful book with lots of illustrations. Maybe, I will ask for these books in return of critique.


Pikatron April 2019 critique by Editor: Will have to get the newsletter from Troy or Agni.


Top ten characters: Authoress shared her favorite characters from the books, novels she have read, both English and Bengali, some I am familiar with others not.


Indian Raga Now:


Johrabai- She is a great singer, heard a few of her songs in YouTube and loved them.


SPOTLIGHT ON- Kenny G- Will have to check out his music.


Window to West – Wild Target: Sounds like fun, I love good comedy movies a lot!


Ashwin Shots: Four gorgeous shots, maybe Agni should add a few more from the next issue onwards.


Youtube channel: Already checked them all out.


Storytime: Snakeman from Patreon: This time a piece of the long story from SBPnB, it would have been fun to have a little bit more to read, the name is intriguing!


Durgapuja: Finally it is coming!


Theme: Mermaids- Seven beautiful paintings.


The cartoon Mr Stick: It is sad how poor people never get the help they should from the governments of third world countries. They have to become aware of their own rights!


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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Published on November 10, 2020 22:42

November 9, 2020

Agnijaat Kartik 1427, October 2020


Agnijaat Kartik 1427, October 2020

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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!


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.


They cost $1.00 each issue and $11.00 for annual subscription. That will include free quarterlies and annual digests.


3. You can also become my patron here: https://patreon.com/sharmishthabasu to read them, the site will allow you to download.


4. 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 @ sermistabasu@gmail.com) I will send you the pdf file of the book. They cost $1.00 each issue.


Drop me a line after reading them!

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Published on November 09, 2020 22:42

November 8, 2020

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November 6, 2020

Shubho Bijoya!


This year I went out for a change, hoping this will be my last year in this disgusting city I decided to go out and take a trip in the neighbourhood, check out the pandals for a change, so I went out on Saptami morning armed with my camera and a blessed day welcomed me.


I went to four pandals that were in walking distance, of course Ekchallis Palli club puja and my own neighbourhood puja don’t know the name of the other two. They were on each side of Adiganga.


I was lucky, blessed enough to see arati in two of the pandals, one being Ekchallis Palli, I recorded it but my blogs cant upload videos and I have deleted my facebook account so they will be for my personal delight!


But I took tons of pix and some of them are put together for subscribers of Agnijashatadalama, here is the newsletter for you-


Click to access 11-agnijashatadalama-november-2020.pdf

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Published on November 06, 2020 03:37

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