My first story of the year is the story of an amazing experience - of temptation, failure and a friendly gesture from an unexpected quarter. Pritha is a foodie. Exploring restaurants in the city is her favourite weekend activity. When living away from home, she gets into cooking. She makes friends with people who are interested in tasting different types of food. She looked forward to a Navaratri lunch invitation fantasising about delicious regional food in a colleague’s home. How was her experience?

How does a writing addict feel to come back to writing after a gap of a year? Ask me — I cannot even express that in words. Return becomes even more exciting when we return with a story on a topic like Cultural identity. The subject has more to offer than we can imagine. Glad that the magazine tried to capture some of it’s nuances: Cultural Identity & Ideology – III TMYS Review December 2022 project themed on Society & Artistic Endeavours. Poems, short stories, essays, articles on Books and Films and panel discussions. Available worldwide via Amazon now. Project link: https://tellmeyourstory.biz/tmys-review Amazon India: https://www.amazon.in/dp/B0BNXSHSVM Amazon USA: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BNXSHSVM Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BP48BB8F Amazon Canada: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0BP48BB8F Amazon Australia: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0BNXSHSVM

As we entered New Year 2023, I remembered a Bengali poem read in my childhood, “Time flows like a river, whoever does not understand this is a fool….” The reference to time made me recall clocks with great historical significance in West Bengal. Needless to mention that the concept of…

Long ago, there was a king ruling a land. He and his minister were good friends. In course of time, they were blessed with children. They got the infants married soon. …

The world population, even if we consider ancient civilizations, were never homogeneous. There are different kinds of people — some are different due to their physical appearance (skin colour, height, hair) and some carry mythical (religion, societal belief, rituals) difference. And human societies always classify people based on that difference…

I wrote this on the first day of Navaratri, 2021. I wrote on Bengali Durga worship and it’s political, economic and social aspects before. Last year, I had a desire to write on some traditional Durgapuja which are being organised in different parts of West Bengal for over hundred years…

Durga, the mother Goddess is known in India since not later than 5th century.The Khajuraho Durga sculpture (900–1100 CE) or Javanese Mahisasuramardini in Chandi Prambaran ( 9th century CE) are important evidence of historical existence of Durga in Indian peninsula. The history of Durgapuja in Bengal is, in fact, very…

Interpretation — is it translation or conversion? If we start the discussion with connotations of each of the words here explained in dictionaries, we will find ‘Translation’ as “communication of the meaning of a source language text by means of an equivalent target language text” (The Oxford Companion to the…

The eternal hunter One day, Count Eberhard von Würtenberg rode alone to Grünwald. He wanted to hunt for fun. Suddenly he heard a loud roar and noise, as if a hunter came by. Heavily shocked, he sensed some formless being to be standing on the steed and stepping on a…