^{Bisarjon marks the end of Durga Puja celebrations with Bijoya Dashami greetings. The following is a Bengali children's poem to mark the occassion, written by Santwana Chatterjee. The poem is in Unicode Bangla font.}

বিসর্যন

সান্ত্বনা চট্টোপাধ্যায়

কিছুই যে আর ভাল্লাগেনা, সদাই খারাপ মন
ফোস ফোস ফোস দীর্ঘশ্বাস ফেলছে সারাক্ষন
সর্বক্ষন চোখেতে জল দেয়না কিছুই মুখে
হ্যারে খুকি, কি হয়েছে, কে বকেছে তোকে ?

The plateau of Giza houses the most famous constructions in human history; the pyramids of Cheops, Chephren, Mycerinus and the Sphinx. The other smaller ones here belong to the queens. It is said that when Cheops became the king of Egypt, there was no place at the royal necropolis in Dahshur for his own pyramid. He moved his court and residence further north towards a commanding rock cliff, ideal for a gigantic pyramid. Thus was born the ‘Wonder’ that did not need any speculation about its appearance, shape and size

^{Adbhuture - a bengali poem by Santwana Chatterjee in unicode Bangla font.}

অদ্ভুতুরে

সান্ত্বনা চট্টোপাধ্যায়

মামদো বলে শাঁকচ্চূন্নী এ তোর কেমন ঢঙ,
শণের নুড়ি চুলেতে তোর ঘোর কমলা রঙ।
বেগুন ঠোঁটে ফাহুন হাসি গন্ধ মাখিস পচা বাসী
খ্যাঁকরাকাঠি চেহারা তে সাদা খড়ির টান ...

^{Burima - a bengali poem by Santwana Chatterjee in unicode Bangla font.}

বুড়িমা

সান্ত্বনা চট্টোপাধ্যায়

মাগো নীচে ঐ বুড়িমা ছেঁড়া কাপড় গায়,
শুকনো মুখে একলা কেন বসেই আছে ঠায় ?
ঠিক যেন মা ঠাম্মা আমার নিয়েসনা ডেকে,
আমার ঘরে আমার কাছে থাকবে এখন থেকে ...

Like their language, the Swiss do not have any originality in their cuisine; it is either a German, a French or an Italian dish which has been adapted and finally began to be known as a Swiss delicacy.

^{Ki Mushkil - a bengali poem by Santwana Chatterjee in unicode Bangla font.}

কি মুশকিল

সান্ত্বনা চট্টোপাধ্যায়

খোকাবাবু খাচ্ছিল বেদানা ছাড়িয়ে,
দ্যাখে এক হনুমান বাগানে দাঁড়িয়ে
হনুমান কলা খায় এটা তার জানা,
ভাবে মনে এতো তবে খাবেনা বেদানা।

By Kohinoor Dasgupta
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

On the evening of Tuesday, September 7, 1999, lyricist Pulak Bandyopadhyay killed himself by jumping off a launch into the Hooghly river at Howrah. He was 68. His body was retrieved on Thursday, September 9, 1999. Words were in short supply in the suicide note he left behind. After having worn his heart on his sleeve as a professional writer for four decades, he had nothing more to say.

Bandyopadhyay lived in Howrah. He was educated at Scottish Church College, Calcutta. He came from a family that enjoyed the Arts — drama, literature, music. Many of his songs were written for Bangla movies, tailored to suit “situations” outlined by screenplay writers and directors. The rest were songs written for the Puja releases and other albums of well-known singers.

Situated among the Sahayadri Range in Western India, Panchgani, a beautiful hill retreat is a welcome break, well adorned with lush green amid rocky hills, valleys, rivers and nature trails and home to Asia’s second largest ‘Tableland.’

Michigan: Sept 8, 2010: Aurangabad was founded in 1610 by Malik Ambar, the minister of Murtaza Nizam Shah II on the site of a village called Kirkee. When his son Fateh Khan came to power, he renamed it Fatehpur. It finally came to be called Aurangabad when the Moghul Emperor Shahjehan's son Aurangzeb was put in charge of the Deccan and made the city his capital.

Tale of an accursed night - a Bengali short story by Palash Dey on WBRi Online Bangla Magazine. The following story is in Unicode Bangla font.

^{Minibus - a bengali poem by Santwana Chatterjee in unicode Bangla font.}

মিনিবাস

সান্ত্বনা চট্টোপাধ্যায়

ইস্কুলেতে গিয়ে তুই কি করিসরে খোকা ?
চুপ করতো ভাল্লাগেনা কথা বোকা বোকা .
একিরে তুই কেমন ছেলে বোকা বলিস মাকে !
তা নয়তো কি, জান তুমি, সবাই আমায় খোকা বলে ডাকে !
অনেক বড় হয়ে গেছি একাই পারি যেতে
এবার থেকে আমায় তুমি আসবেনা আর নিতে I

Submit your songs, music, poems, stories, pictures, elocution and creative work to WBRi for global visibility and broadcast - use the Contact link to contact us.

Maoist activities in India may not be desirable, but the persons involved in such activities are human beings and citizens of our country. They may be misguided, but instead being blindly hated, they could be treated more humanely as fellow citizens.

Keshab Rao felt hungry and fingered out the biscuits from the small container and started chewing them. They were too dry and he felt he should have brought drinking water along which he had forgotten in haste. The water course was not far off and he could find it after moving about hundred meters through the hilly forest. The water was clean and cool and it relieved his fatigue. He would have to walk three more kilo meters to get at the hiding where the other boys would assemble. They are not likely to come before twelve p.m. and it was now just eight o’clock. So he could take some rest at this place. He fell flat on his back on the mossy ground and felt the soothing coldness of the moist velvety mosses.

"Pujo Elo Ei" - A Bengali poem in unicode Bangla font, written by Sharmistha Dutta exclusively on Washington Bangla Radio Online Bengali Magazine.

পূজো এল ঐ

একটা পূজো  বড় মন কেমন করায়...
শিশুর মতন মানুষ জনেরা সারা কলকাতা ছুটে বেড়ায়.
কেনাকাটা ,আন‌নদ,উৎসবেরই তোড়জোড়.
পূজো শুরু যেদিন মহালয়ার ভোর.কাশফুলে লেগেছে হাওয়ার দোল..
বাজছে কানে পূজোর ঢাক ঢোল ...

Michigan: August 27th, 2010: We were all set to witness the structural grandeur of Verul…more popularly known as the Ellora caves in Aurangabad, a town in the state of Maharashtra, India.

Ramjan (Ramadan) - a bengali poem by Santwana Chatterjee in unicode Bangla font. This is one of the favorite poems of the poetess herself.

রমজান

সান্ত্বনা চট্টোপাধ্যায়

রশিদমিঞা রিক্সা চালায় সকাল দুপুর রাত
তাইতে তাদের জোটে কাপড় তাইতে জোটে ভাত ।