Gardening was my father’s avid passion. He grew this mango tree on the terrace garden ! This also bears fruit every year – one of the best variety of mango , extremely good in taste though they grow only a few.

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While  cremating  the dead ,  a  small portion of the forehead bone  is preserved along with ashes to be immersed later on in Ganga at holi places like Nabadwip dham or Hrardwar. The first four days these objects in an earthen container is buried at a place outside  home. The fifth day of the [...]

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The rituals entered the tenth day and I performed the Dashakarma .One of the aspect of the rituals is that one needs to tonsure the head. People are saying I  am looking like Dalai Lama ! This is a pic taken on the terrace of my Coochbehar home. You would see the large  lake [...]

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My father (80)passed away  at 3.25 am on Nov09  at Coochbehar. His Haemoglobin  level was falling  very low last few months inspite of repeated blood transfusions . Finally after a bone marrow scan Doctor traced it to Chronic Myeloid Leukemia ( CML) .By the time it was found out ,his health already deteriorated  with [...]

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Last Saturday I was elected the Chairman of the SAE India Southern Section  for 2009-11. It’s a great honour for me to lead this esteemed organization – a position earlier held by many distinguished personalities.SAE India southern section has about 10,000 members with about 60 collegiate clubs – the largest SAE chapter outside Detroit. [...]

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