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Sneak peek into the Christmas tale of a Bong Home Hello and welcome back. With Christmas round the corner, I wish all my readers a very happy Christmas. Hope all your plans and preparations are almost complete and just a few last minute updates are left. Well, due to several historical reasons, Christmas is celebrated worldwide, transcending all geographical, cultural and religious barriers. And, with creative minds, the celebrations have taken a variety of forms in different communities. Today, I will take you into the Christmas celebration stories of a traditional Bengali Household. All it happened that one friend of mine invited me to help her with the preparations of this winter festival. And being a Bengali myself, I decided to share the story with everyone of you. May be you decide to take a few tips and add them to your celebration plans. 1. Creative Pandals ( altars ) - Jingle Bells Jingle Bells, and Christ the Messiah, our Father and Friend is born to Mother Mary an

We are all awaiting Christmas and it's high time now. Most of the schools would declare holiday soon. And, all we wish is to get our homes - festive ready. After all, we not only wish to enjoy in our most precious place in this world, we also wish to bask in the warmth of our cozy compartment. With winter spreading her wings by and by, we wish to play with our sensory instincts in order to feel warm, and evade the grey shroud. Or simply you might like a twist in the look of your room to get over with feeling monotonous. Well, even your friend - Prabhasini happens to love her home and space a lot. So, after experimenting things myself and talking to a few interior decorators across my city, here a few tips that I am sharing for your room's makeover. Hope this will light up your spaces and bring a smile on your faces. 1. Winter comes with a prevailing gloominess. So, add warm colors to your home. These include - varieties of  yellow, red, orange and green shades. May be, you

Hello and welcome back everybody! Its just a few days ahead of Christmas, and the festive excitement has already engulfed the air. Amidst all these, we also have this feeling - how am I to look gorgeous in the Christmas night. Especially, if you have a planned night-over with your family or friends or that special someone, you would definitely want to look gorgeously radiant. After all, its the Messiah - Christ's birthday, and we all are in festive spirits. And, we would also love those compliments. But, with hoards of tips available, and the dominant trend of opting for natural home-remedies over chemical options, how do we simplify this task of zeroing in. Well, here are a few tips chosen among many, simplifying your task of deciding, that can really help you out - Skin care -     1.      It is the season of oranges. While you savor the pulp, store the peel. Dry it. Make a paste of it in the mixer grinder. And, you are done with your magic beauty powder. Use it with h

One day you wake up in the morning to the news - of agony, of immense brutality, and  example set by man ( not human or mankind but literally - the male counterpart - MAN ) of setting foot backwards to the primitive age, yet, who is more savage, more better equipped technically, with more derogatory idea about how an woman can be (mis)handled with the enormous porn videos streaming across the internet portal, and that too - free of cost. The case of MP birla or GD birla or for that matter, any school which has such incidents occurring - reported or unreported, is indeed shocking for the entire nation. If a place like that of school, where one sends their kids to be imparted with education, is rather taught to be mere dolls of satisfaction of the adult whims, where, even kids who might not even have known the difference between gender in the way grown up society at large defines it , where even the word "SEX", might be oblivious to them, are rather put into action, wher