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Agnishatdal Boisakh 1426 Critique by Troy

Agnishatdal Boisakh 1426 Critique By Troy David Loy @ https://www.amazon.com/author/troyloy Agnishatdal Boisakh 1426, April 2019 https://shoptly.com/i/fq6 Agnishatdal Book 9, 25she boisakh 1426, 7th May 2019 https://shoptly.com/i/gu6 Namaskar. It’s Bengali New Year, for the month of Boisakh, BS 1426! This issue has such things to show us, and I hope to do them at least some justice in this critique! This month’s first image shows a young woman wearing a dupatta. I like the color palette for this one, with the shawl of deep Indian Red and blouse of crimson, unless my knowledge of colors is based on mistaken assumptions, a possibility! Berlin 2 An unexpected Trip: Brian treats us to a story which cries out for further details, of a part of family history from his mother’s time in the military, a photo showing her in an Airforce Auxiliary uniform. This was brief, but enjoyable! Fruitful Quest: Raghu here gives a story of a raja’s whi

Goodbye 2019

Goodbye 2019. you were simply awesome in many a ways! Some divine blessings just landed on my lap without even asking for them! Hope and pray your year was equally beautiful. Sharing a divine blessing bestowed upon me in 2019, You can use it if you are blessed with something like it. https://banglakathaoblog.files.wordpress.com/2019/12/butterfly-blessings-8.12.19.pdf

Solar Eclipse 26.12.19 from Kolkata

It was a roller-coaster ride! When we went to bed on 25 th the sky was clear as it could be, but when we woke up it was covered in cloud! Imagine the disappointment! But God certainly works in most amazing way! We missed the peak moment but the sky cleared a bit an hour later and we got a slice of the eclipse, not only that, the flimsy cover of cloud made it possible to get some fabulous shots of the eclipse. What else can I say but thank you God! Here is one of the shots that I took, will cherish the rest for a very long, long time. Already waiting for next year’s eclipse and hoping for a similar miracle. It will be in June so prayer will be really earnest! Ya know, that is the monsoon season down here! Envious about those who could see the full eclipse! Seen it once, will absolutely love to see it one more time! But chances are nada!

Agnijaat Boisakh 1426 Critique by Troy

Agnijaat Boisakh 1426 Critique By Troy David Loy @ https://www.amazon.com/author/troyloy Agnijaat Boisakh 1426, April 2019 https://shoptly.com/i/fq5 Agnijaat Book 9, 25she boisakh 1426, 7th May 2019 https://shoptly.com/i/gu5 It’s the Bengali New Year, BS 1426 in the month of Boisakh, so here’s the last of the eZine critiques until Jyeshtha’s! Things are going well, but busy, though I hope to note the high points of this month’s offering by the Authoress herself! For this month’s opening image, we’re treated to a piece showing a small boat with what appears to be a sealed clay jar, with a delightful mix of bright shades! Working Mothers: The authoress notes here the problems of raising children of women in careers in India, and gives three solutions, three horns rather than merely two, to the dilemma! India THEN – History of Goa 2: Here we are told of the first medical college in Asia, the Escola Medica Sirugica de Goa, now re

Saraswati

This is my first attempt of Bengali poetry book with English translation in shoptly. Have tried a few in Amazon but as I have shifted venue, from now on these too will show up here.   This book is dedicated to the Goddess we, all creators adore I believe, Goddess Saraswati- the creator of art, music, literature.   There are Bengali poems, their rough English translation and of course illustrations. Hope this tiny colourful book will please you! It is next to impossible to translate poetry, so I don’t try. I just capture the essence and share that. I think that is more honest and intelligible too!   I will love to hear from you, compliments, suggestions anything will do!     Sharmishtha Basu 17.7.18   saraswati https://shoptly.com/i/roq  

Seventeen

Seventeen https://shoptly.com/i/ros   Back when I had lot of time to illustrate I created two forms, Seven and Seventeen. So I could illustrate them to the contentment of my heart and soul.   Then with time I could no longer manage the time to illustrate, instead I started word-paintings, trying to capture the scenes with words only.   Here are the poems I have shared in my blog in 2018, hope you will enjoy them. Do tell me your views!   Happy reading! Sharmishtha Basu 17 th July 2018 Haridebpur, Kolkata

Seven

Seven https://shoptly.com/i/ror   Back when I had lot of time to illustrate I created two forms, Seven and Seventeen. So I could illustrate them to the contentment of my heart and soul.   Then my twin ezines elbowed their way in and captured all the limelight, I still publish them in blogs, without illustration. Here they are at your service, let me know if you like them!   The essence of the poems are versatile as always, there is no specific theme, just the poems I blogged compiled together.   Happy reading! Sharmishtha Basu 17 th July 2018 Haridebpur, Kolkata

Agnimalya Book 9 : Soul Devourers

Agnimalya Book 9 : Soul Devourers, 17 th July 2018 Agnimalya Book 9 : The soul devourers https://shoptly.com/i/ro2   I truly enjoyed writing this story, that is why I kept it in stock, wondering if I will publish it in my own store or Amazon, then my own store won the vote and here it is!   I hope you will enjoy this fantasy story!   A piece from the story:   Soul Devourers By Sharmishtha Basu Editor: Troy David Loy [ https://www.amazon.com/troyloy ] Ting….   Her cellphone chirped…   She smiled and opened the inbox. A beautiful sms was waiting there.   Greecie….   "What kind of name is that?" was the first question she has asked him. Her hibernating cyber friend who woke up from hibernation after three years of dormant presence!   "My Swiss net friend has given me that name… she says I look Greek not Indian."   "Oh!"   She had dozens of friends in internet, some close a

agnimalya book 7 an adult love story

agnimalya book 7 an adult love story https://shoptly.com/i/p2b   Agnimalya is a book of stories, each month this book is gifted to my patrons in patreon and it contains all types of stories, some are illustrated but most are not. This one is all about stories.   This book was shared in pieces in patreon, now it is here as a full book. It is a story about true love, the way a matured adult loves another person I believe. It is not about physical side of love though. Don’t be confused by the name please! You won’t see much of that in my works are almost always about psychological, spiritual or mental side of love.   I wonder if you will enjoy this one.   Drop me a line! Tell me what you thought of it!  

Agnishatdal Book 7- Durgapuja 1425

Agnishatdal Book 7- Durgapuja 1425 https://shoptly.com/i/y8z   Agnishatdal is a monthly English Ezine created by a group of extremely talented, huge-hearted writers, artists and creators. As its creators are scattered all over the world its creations are versatile. They are free to create whatever they want to as long as it is not biased, ugly so you can be sure of one thing, its contents are versatile.   You will see many a type of stuffs in the Ezines, stories, critiques, artworks, photograph, poem, non-fiction…   As for the Quarterlies, they sometimes have the contents from the Ezines sometimes not. This quarterly is celebrating one of Agnishatdal’s priceless gems Raghunandan Kuppuswamy, his gifts to the Ezine(s) are beyond words! He has been gifting his works for free, from the very beginning.   These works have been published in the Ezine! I picked the ones I loved best. Have fun!   You know that these works are copyrighted to Raghunandan Kuppus

Agnijaat Book 7 - Durgapuja 1425

Agnijaat Book 7 - Durgapuja 1425 https://shoptly.com/i/y8y   Agnijaat is a monthly English Ezine, that serves as an outlet to hyperactive muse of its humble creator Sharmishtha Basu. She is blessed with extra amount of energy and time, and this Ezine saves her from getting bored to death!   Monthly issues of the Ezine contains versatile things, stories, poems, illustrations, essays and myriad other stuffs. The quarterlies sometimes share the contents of the Ezines sometimes not. Just like last quarterly this year too it contains not stuffs from the Ezine.   This quarterly is all about sketches I painted last year, as I painted them during Durgapuja by the time they finished Durgapuja was over, so, I am sharing them this year, hope you will enjoy them!   Do drop a line! My contact details are at the end of the book.   Love and best wishes.   Sharmishtha Basu 24.10.18

Agnishatdal Book 6, 25she boisakh 1425

Agnishatdal Book 6, 25she boisakh 1425   https://shoptly.com/i/pvc Agnishatdal is a monthly English Ezine created by a group of extremely talented, huge-hearted writers, artists and creators. As its creators are scattered all over the world its creations are versatile. They are free to create whatever they want to as long as it is not biased, ugly so you can be sure of one thing, its contents are versatile.   You will see many a type of stuffs in the Ezines, stories, critiques, artworks, photograph, poem, non-fiction…   As for the Quarterlies, they sometimes have the contents from the Ezines sometimes not. This quarterly is celebrating one of Agnishatdal’s priceless gems Troy David Loy, his gifts to the Ezine(s) is beyond words!   But, none of these works were in Ezines, they are a collection from his guest posts. Awesome bunch of stories for fantasy lovers, lovers of science fiction! Have fun!   You know that these works are copyrighted to Troy Davi

Agnijaat Book 6, 25she boisakh 1425

Agnijaat Book 6, 25she boisakh 1425   https://shoptly.com/i/pvo   Agnijaat is an English, monthly Ezine, an outlet to hyperactive muse of its creator Miss Sharmishtha Basu. This Quarterly will give you a half hint about the usual monthly Ezines but it contains only part of the spectrum of the monthly issues.   This is a series I am quite enjoying creating, it is a set of works based on specific themes in each month, and this quarterly contains 12 sets of them. I have kept the price minuscule because selling these books is obviously my goal, attempt but not only goal behind creation.   You will get lot of illustrations, poems, stories, thoughts in this quarterly.   Drop me a line after reading them!  

Agnidal illustrated 2018

agnidal https://shoptly.com/i/rou   ABOUT THE BOOK   Agnidal Annual Issues will contain one or more works and an interview of its family members. "Agnishatdal Parivar". You will read few stories, poems and enjoy some amazing artworks in these pages. Hope you will love them.   Unlike Sfulingo, the contents of Agnidal illustrated is same as the book in Kindle, and if you read both books you will know why I have created my shop in shoptly. Creating is so much more fun here!   Here is the shortest piece, a poem by Dom Collucci (Published Author of few poetry books in lulu.com}: A loving touch*   A tender heart must never break Within shall always love not ache Sweet endearing gentleness we both agree You are a rose so pure, a spirit so free Let love enter always happily, may it abound To raise both of our Soul*s in this wonderful surround   Dom*Colucci © 2017 http://www.amazon.com/Tree-Becomes-Soul-Dominic-Colucci/product

Sfulingo illustrated 2018

sfulingo https://shoptly.com/i/ro7   ABOUT THE BOOK     Sfulingo is Annual edition of Agnijaat, my monthly English Ezine. This year it is being published in Shoptly for the first time, hopefully I will have the joy of publishing these issues every year for years to come!   This yearly issue contains a set of illustrated Haikus and a bunch of form poems, both are absolutely new for all my readers! Previously unpublished or blogged I mean.   The books in Kindle have the same name but the contents are different. Honestly I really don’t enjoy creating for Kindle much, because I love illustrating my books. That is my greater fun in creating. So after creating the books for Amazon (because they do fabulous advertising) I created these two books for shoptly. To create the books I like!   There is one fair warning for my wannabe readers or those who check my books in shoptly, you will see LOT of books here, because you must treat my bookstore as the store o

Sfulingo 2018

Sfulingo https://www.amazon.com/dp/b07fdhbprr illustrated: https://shoptly.com/i/ro7   Agnidal https://www.amazon.com/dp/b07fddddhf Illustrated https://shoptly.com/i/rou   PRICES OF BOTH kindle books: $1.07 Shoptly books: $1.00 ABOUT THE BOOK     Sfulingo is Annual edition of Agnijaat, my monthly English Ezine.   The annual edition this year does not contain anything from the monthly issues. It is a collection of poetries. I had some really good time writing them. Hope you will enjoy reading them!   These are from the phase which became my launch-pad in writing and painting world. Whole credit goes to Jingle, her group became my regular readers and showered me with their beautiful compliments. That in turn woke the writer inside and I truly doubt if it would have happened had Jingle not shown up in my insignificant world.   If you enjoy the works of this book thank Jingle for them http://jinglepoetry.blogspot.com/

Agnidal 2018

  Agnidal https://www.amazon.com/dp/b07fddddhf Illustrated https://shoptly.com/i/rou Sfulingo https://www.amazon.com/dp/b07fdhbprr illustrated: https://shoptly.com/i/ro7     PRICES OF BOTH kindle books: $1.07 Shoptly books: $1.00     Agnidal Annual Issues will contain one or more works and an interview of its family members. "Agnishatdal Parivar". You will read few stories, poems and enjoy some amazing artworks in these pages. Hope you will love them.   Here is the shortest piece, a poem by Dom Collucci (Published Author of few poetry books in lulu.com}: A loving touch*   A tender heart must never break Within shall always love not ache Sweet endearing gentleness we both agree You are a rose so pure, a spirit so free Let love enter always happily, may it abound To raise both of our Soul*s in this wonderful surround   Dom*Colucci © 2017 http://www.amazon.com/Tree-Becomes-Soul-Dominic-Colu

Coming Kingdom February 2019

Coming kingdom at present is sharing stories of upcoming books, right now it is sharing stories from the books to be published (republished) in Amazon Kindle in 2019. Every month it will share few stories.   Check out the stories and share your views!   To get it every month become my patron in patreon: https://patreon.com/sharmishthabasu   Or you can buy the way buy the pdf files from me too, each month’s pdf file will cost you $1.00, you will have to pay via paypal ( https://paypal.me/sharmishthabasu ) and send me the payment details and list of the issues you want ( sermistabasu@gmail.com ). Don’t forget it! I will send you the pdf files you have bought. Or you can buy the books in Amazon as they get republished there.  

Sharmishtha basu’s pen and brush February 2019

Sharmishtha basu’s pen and brush   https://patreon.com/sharmishthabasu   SBPnB is a book of illustrations mainly. As you can guess from the name the priority has been given to the illustrator inside me! I love to paint and this is the book through which I am sharing my paintings with you.   Sometimes you will get them with quotes, sometimes with poems or flash fictions. But whatever will be there the size of the words will be quite short, so that each post’s length is one page. Sometimes they may get longer but not necessarily!   You will have to check out a few copies to get the feel. Just like Agnimalya the genre of the poems/stories will be versatile. Once in a blue moon you may get a book centered on certain topic or emotion!   You can buy the book using one of these sites- [each (issue) pdf file costs $1.00] - in patreon by becoming my patron and downloading the books from there; in shoptly-pay and download.   Or via paypal- by paying throu

Agnishatdal Falgun 1425, February

Agnishatdal Falgun 1425, February https://shoptly.com/i/4jy   Authors of Agnishatdal Falgun 1425   Agnishatdal is an English monthly Ezine blessed with selfless affection of its creative group, these selfless authors, artists have shared their wonderful creation for free and no matter how much I try to thank them for this gift, it will be nothing! Here they are (No order please, just the names as they appeared in mind) : Brieuc Martin Onraet https://equinoxio21.wordpress.com Dominic Collucci: https://zendom777.wixsite.com/mysite-2 Raghunandan Kuppuswamy https://ksriranga.wordpress.com Troy David Loy http://troythulu.net   Doug Hemmingplay http://hemmingplay.com , Juliette Roques: https://helsinkibudapest.wordpress.com Freya Pickard: https://purehaiku.wordpress.com Lisa Ojanpera and Bitter Pill

Agnimalya February 2019

Agnimalya   https://patreon.com/sharmishthabasu     Agnimalya is a book of stories, some old stories and mostly new stories are included in it. The mood depends on the stories included- that is- they are unpredictable! I try to make them as versatile as possible and sometimes throw in some flash-fictions lavishly illustrated for you!   You will have to check out a few copies to get the feel. But just as I said I try to add all genres but not in the same copy, and I don’t really stick to one genre in one book mostly, maybe I will in future, but not at present. Most probably you will enjoy a dose of love in the February Issue or Durgapuja in autumn….   You can buy the book using one of these sites- each (issue) pdf file costs $1.00. From patreon/shoptly by becoming my patron in patreon-they will allow you to download the books or simply buying and downloading from shoptly.   Or via paypal- by paying through paypal and getting the pdf files from me. I

Agnijaat Falgun 1425, February

Agnijaat Falgun 1425, February https://shoptly.com/i/4jx   Agnijaat is a monthly English Ezine that follows Bengali Calendar. It is an outlet to hyperactive muse of its creator Miss Sharmishtha Basu. She earnestly tries to improve her creations and makes them as versatile as possible. Hopes that you will enjoy the Ezines for years if you subscribe!   So you will get lot of illustrations, poems, stories, thoughts, light and serious essays, cartoons, a dash of spiritualism in this ezine, every month.   To subscribe you will have to pay via paypal https://paypal.me/sharmishthabasu and send me your email id sermistabasu@gmail.com informing me about your payment and how many issues you want to buy. I will send you your Ezines in that email id.   Or you can buy the issues directly from https://shoptly.com/sharmishthabasu after i put them up there each month.   They cost $1.00 each issue.   Agnijaat this month contains stories, essays, colourful

Sharmishtha basu’s pen and brush or SBPnB January 2019

Sharmishtha basu’s pen and brush or SBPnB is out for my patrons in patreon: https://patreon.com/sharmishthabasu   SBPnB is still without paintings but with longer stories. This month they are about fairies, magic, and monsters in human flesh. SBPnB is a book of illustrations mainly. As you can guess from the name the priority has been given to the illustrator inside me! I love to paint and this is the book through which I am sharing my paintings with you.   Sometimes you will get them with quotes, sometimes with poems or flash fictions. But whatever will be there the size of the words will be quite short, so that each post’s length is one page. Sometimes they may get longer but not necessarily!   You will have to check out a few copies to get the feel. Just like Agnimalya the genre of the poems/stories will be versatile. Once in a blue moon you may get a book centered on certain topic or emotion!   You can buy the book using one of these sites- [each (is