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Thanks somnath! The story continues in my thread "Ode to Kolkata" in the Kolkata Forum.
“The real home of man is not his house but the road. Life itself is a travel that has to be done by foot.”
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I hope this is ur 1st time in kolkata. So u have missed out a lot. Here IMers (I dont Think) wish to have missed out an inch..

Find a new way or place yourself to add it to the world map. This will be a Master of all researches in modern times. This cannot be a copy paste procedure. You have your whole life for such a petty task. So, start searching today not on maps but by Travelling.
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Buddhu Bhutoom!

I was remembering sitting with my Thakurma as she told me the story of Buddhu Bhutoom, and simply could not remember the ending (as in how they become humans)...and then you stopped telling the story! Please, please let me know where can I read the rest?!
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Hello DipsC and welcome to IndiaMike.

Hopefully Jyotida will come back and finish the tale.
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Originally Posted by DipsC View Post I was remembering sitting with my Thakurma as she told me the story of Buddhu Bhutoom, and simply could not remember the ending (as in how they become humans)...and then you stopped telling the story! Please, please let me know where can I read the rest?!
If you can read Bengali, it's easy enough, -- just buy the real thing (Thakurmar Jhuli by Dakshinaranjan) from Flipkart and have it delivered to your hand! You'll get many more enchanting Roopkathas as well.

There is also an excellent CD (also available at Flipkart) that dramatizes Buddhu Bhutoom and Lalkamal - Neelkamal. It was extremely popular with kids when it was released on LP decades back. I still love it!

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this picture is an absolute treat - just one guess on you think the lil kid is ?


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Originally Posted by brishti View Post this picture is an absolute treat - just one guess on you think the lil kid is ?

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Yah...really an absolute treat!!!

And the thread is related......
aamar payer tolai sorshe...(I have wheels under my feet)
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Brishti,
It must be the choto Satyajit Ray himself.
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Dekha Hoi Nai Cokkhu Melia

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It must be the choto Satyajit Ray himself.

Yes, TD I also think so..

And when Satyajit and Rabindranath are in one frame, I can hear this...

Bohu din dhore, bohu krosh dure,
bohu byay kori, bohu desh ghure,
Dekhite giyachhi parbotmala, dekhite giyachhi sindhu,
Dekha hoy nai chokkhu meliya,
Ghar hote shudhu dui pa feliya,
Ekti dhaner shisher upore ekti shishir bindu.


Translated into English:
I traveled miles, for many a year,
I spent a lot in lands a far,
I’ve gone to see the mountains, the oceans I’ve been to view.
But I haven’t seen with these eyes
Just two steps from my home lies
On a sheaf of paddy grain, a glistening drop of dew.

C: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/learninge...the-nose.shtml

As I read somewhere, Rabindranath wrote this when Satyajit asked for a autograph from him.

It's one of my favorite from Rabindranath
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A couple of interesting stories in today's Telegraph of Kolkata, the first concerns an American film maker who is chronicling stories of Ladies' Travel Tales of yore:

Daring ladies & their travel diaries Stories from a nun and a lady with a gun

- US filmmaker pitches tent to shoot chronicles of Calcutta over a century ago

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“Calcutta to me was a mysterious place where I really wanted to return someday,” explains Courtney, who studied medical anthropology prior to pursuing filmmaking. “I liked the way the city had enough space for things to be left and forgotten. In most American cities, things aren’t allowed to disintegrate. They are restored or rebuilt,” she says.

Calcutta and its nuns also drew her. “I saw these missionaries as another kind of women travellers — more religious than the other glamorous, wealthy and aristocratic ones. Not waiting to return somewhere.”

Her project is supported by the Satyajit Ray Film and Television institute, the University of Pennsylvania Film Archives and Kew Gardens, London. “I should finish by fall,” she says.




The other story is about the novelist Sankar and the 50th Anniversary of the publication of his bestseller "Chowringhee":

Anniversary tribute to novel’s success
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TD, the Google Doodle at www.google.co.in is dedicated to Satyajit Ray.

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I think it is inspired from Pather Panchali.
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Definitely it is inspired from Pather Panchali. It is the birthday of Satyajit Ray today.

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Check this group here regarding the LEGEND.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/satyajitray/
You would come to know a lot about him.
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Rajdhani off the Rajpath..
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