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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 bea...

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...

Hello and welcome back everybody. I  am really sorry for having been away for so long. However, as you know, there are always some ups and some downs in life, and sometimes, you indeed need to keep your family as your priority. Well, since we meet ( rather greet ) each other after a long time, the first thing we would have done in case we had met in real life is - to smile. And we do smile, which is regarded synonymous to expressing our happiness. But, is it always that people smile when they are happy. Well, often a lot of people complain in forums that they have regarded the smile of a girl / man as a "hint" expressing "interest", and have latter regretted for this misconception. So, for all our student friends across the globe, it is really very important to understand - this mystique element of human behavior - "smile". History has it that when Leonardo created the work of Monalisa, which is one of the most costliest paintings ever, the object o...

Hello and welcome back everybody. Your friend Prabhasini, is back again. And this time, I am going to share with you - a phenomenon, embedded in the daily life of students - going to school or college. We wake up early, throughout our lives, brush our teeth, have shower, have our breakfast, and get dressed in neat dresses or uniform. Thus, we get set to begin a new eventful day of our life. A day of learning, a day of excitement, a day of fun, and what not. And then, we go about to our respective mode of commute, by which we would reach our respective destination. But, have you ever thought, how much time do we spend in the buses, metros, pool-cars, autos or whatever we choose, for going and coming back. Well, if I go by my collected data from most of the schools across Kolkata, a bit of research that I do for you readers, an average student spends about 3-to-4 hours everyday, traveling. And, this is the figure in a normal situation. In case any disruption occurs, like - dysfuncti...

Hello and welcome back. As I always encouraged my readers to write back to me, which is indeed motivating for a blogger, to know that people read your articles, I am elated to receive this article from among the many readers like you. And, although I insisted upon publishing his name as well, but he chose to remain anonymous, hence, I would not divulge his identity. But, of course, I would share his article, with all of you. Indeed, with the innovation boom, the present world is lurking in a stiff competition to redefine everything. But, to what extent, is it helpful in reality, or is it just a mere re-living of  fantasy. This is what the article is all about. Do read on and share it...   The present world nowadays, have seen a surge in the ways of innovation.  Almost everyday, we see and hear that somewhere in the world somehow, some...

The festive season is coming near. And, for many, it has already begun with the preparations which largely means - shopping. And, while we go about shopping, we often do not find time to cook food at home. The obvious choice for most of us then, is to savor up the delicious food from the plethora of eateries. And, the most common choice is made in preference of "Junk Food". Indeed, they are tasty. Often, they are easily available and time - savvy as they can be made instantly. But, is this choice made in a flick, really a healthy choice in the long run. Let's find out the evils of Junk Food. First and foremost, these food stuffs are really low in terms of nutritional value. They might fill up your tummy with those extra carbs, but your body gains nothing by consuming them. Next, as these are only adding carbs to your body, your risk of being obese increases. And, we all know the harmful affects of being obese. Apart from these harmful affects, think about th...