When Mrs. Sen’s husband Major General B.K. Sen died in Kargil war she was very depressed. She could not get herself together for three months. She consulted a psychiatrist who advised her to do some social service which will give her immense satisfaction and cure her from her depression.
She opened up an orphanage home for the destilute children in a remote village. One day some children of the home asked her, “Maa,(they used to address her as Maa) we have heard that Biriyani is a delicious dish. How does it taste and how to prepare it?” She told them to look into the kitchen for the ingredients. The i

During Durga Puja I used to go to Murshidabad with my parents and elder sister. It was my grandmother’s ancestral home. We used to celebrate Durga Puja there. It was 150 years old Puja. The rituals of Puja starts from Shashthi and end on Dashami after the Idols immersion. All our relatives used to go there for the Puja. They had a huge palatial house(because they were the Zaminders of Murshidabad). Each day we had different programmes in the evening. Sometimes we used to play Antakshari  with all our cousins in the evenings before the Puja actually starts. Somedays in the evenings, those who recite poem used to recite, some u

When I was six years old my parents decided to make a trip to Darjeeling and Kalimpong in India, during christmas holiday.My

parents,elder sister and me arrived at Darjeeling and after spending two days we started for Kalimpong. We arrived there in

the afternoon.We reserved in advance a tourist lodge called Stanley House.It is situated at the top of a hill. The place is

far away from the town and very secluded.Nearby there is no residential places. About few kilometres away there is Military

barracks and further away there is a small village.The bunglow was

 Every individual learns from their personal experiences. Often people have wrong perceptions about life. People think if you work hard you will definitely succeed in life. It is very true but luck also favours a lot. If you are lucky in life you will get everything easily, no matter you work hard or not. Some people get everything easily and some has to strive for it. Sometimes people’s life gets miserable by making wrong decisions. One wrong move will change your life for better or worse. Most of the people don’t get everything in life. There are ups and downs in every individuals life. People should enjoy what they h

To avoid crowd my father always wants to go on holidays during the months of November or December. When I was about 10 years old my parents, elder sister and myself visited Darjeeling in the month of December. We checked in a hotel called "Alice Villa" near the mall. It was a sunny day and the locals told us for another few days it will be sunny.So we decided to go next day to Tiger Hill to see the sunrise over "Kanchenjunga". It was freezing cold. In the evening we lit wooden fire in the fire place in our room. When the fire was lit there was a mad rush for a place near the fire.
 We got ready at 5 a.m.