Agnijashatadalam

The lotus of Fire http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00o8m3o5e This book is mostly about God, spiritualism and blessed sides of life, and will stay so, even if I change the contents of the book completely, which I am not planning right now, right now I am only editing and sometimes rewriting old poems and of course I have completely removed the illustrations permanently. So this book will bring a bunch of poems each year revolving around light and God. 　 As you may know it started with my storybooks in 2017, I kept the titles of the books but changed their contents fully, excluding the title stories. I told that I will include the poetry books from next year, here they are from 2018 onwards the contents of the poetry books will change too, most probably every year. In case of poetry books there are no title poems so majority of the contents or all contents will change. Hope you will enjoy them! I really don’t have any intentions of adding more titles in Amazon, I have stuffed up

A bouquet of wildflowers http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00RF97HXW This book is mostly about human nature, its complexity. Both its darkness and light has been shared in this book. Beware many poems are pretty direct, harsh straight from real world! But there are a few lighter ones too don’t worry. 　 As you may know it started with my storybooks in 2017, I kept the titles of the books but changed their contents fully, excluding the title stories. I told that I will include the poetry books from next year, here they are from 2018 onwards the contents of the poetry books will change too, most probably every year. In case of poetry books there are no title poems so majority of the contents or all contents will change. Hope you will enjoy them! I really don’t have any intentions of adding more titles in Amazon, I have stuffed up too many already, but I am stuffed with works so I will just change the contents every year, of as many books as I can handle! The createspace books, the

Trishakti https://shoptly.com/i/z7v 　 This is my second book 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 three Mother Goddesses we Indians, Bengalis hold very close to our hearts- Goddess Laxmi- the giver of wealth and prosperity, Goddess Kali- the ultimate destroyer of evil, and Mother Goddess Durga- the eternal mother. 　 There are Bengali poems, their rough English translation and of course illustrations. Hope this tiny colourful book will please you! Well, these poems are dedicated to these three divine powers, remember that before buying them, you may or may not enjoy them! But hopefully you will love the illustrations! 　 I will love to hear from you, compliments, suggestions anything will do! You know all those nitty gritty things- that the contents of this book are copyrighted works of Sharmishtha Basu, you ar

A bouquet of wildflowers http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00RF97HXW This book in quite contrast to the lotus of fire is about real life, this world and how it often acts. Mostly about human society, human nature. Its good and bad sides. 　 As you may know it started with my storybooks in 2017, I kept the titles of the books but changed their contents fully, excluding the title stories. I told that I will include the poetry books from next year, here they are from 2018 onwards the contents of the poetry books will change too, most probably every year. In case of poetry books there are no title poems so majority of the contents or all contents will change. Hope you will enjoy them! I really don’t have any intentions of adding more titles in Amazon, I have stuffed up too many already, but I am stuffed with works so I will just change the contents every year, of as many books as I can handle! The createspace books, the paperbacks will be deleted this year-2019, so from this year onw

The lotus of Fire http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00o8m3o5e This book is mostly about God, spiritualism and blessed sides of life, and will stay so, even if I change the contents of the book completely, which I am not planning right now, right now I am only editing and sometimes rewriting old poems and of course I have completely removed the illustrations permanently. So this book will bring a bunch of poems each year revolving around light and God. 　 As you may know it started with my storybooks in 2017, I kept the titles of the books but changed their contents fully, excluding the title stories. I told that I will include the poetry books from next year, here they are from 2018 onwards the contents of the poetry books will change too, most probably every year. In case of poetry books there are no title poems so majority of the contents or all contents will change. Hope you will enjoy them! I really don’t have any intentions of adding more titles in Amazon, I have stuffed up

I personally coveted for it! no shame in admitting. even though I enjoyed indie publishing I always dreamt that someone will like my works enough to publish them and justfiction-edition did exactly that! 　 They liked my stories Red Butterfly and Harmony and published them as a single book on 26th October 2018, "Red butterfly and harmony", awesome huh? 　 https://my.justfiction-edition.com/catalogue/details/gb/978-613-7-40142-2/red-butterfly-and-harmony?search=redbutterfly 　 https://www.morebooks.shop/store/gb/book/red-butterfly-and-harmony/isbn/978-613-7-40142-2 　 Two stories in one jacket-one about a very beautiful, perfect world, Harmony a world where your dreams may come true too, if you think outside the box! A journey into a beautiful planet where magical creatures still roam. A wanderer travelling in space finds love and home. The other story is a reminder of how wicked often hide behind mask of innocence. A story of two brave kids and a wicked

Sold my first artwork in January 2019. It really felt awesome! :) If you want to buy any of my works feel free to pay me via my paypal account and ask me to send you the jpeg file. 　 sermistabasu@gmail.com and paypal.me/sharmishthabasu Sharmishtha Basu sermistabasu@gmail.com

Agnijaat Book 8, Saraswatipuja 1425 https://shoptly.com/i/4xg 　 Agnishatdal Book 8, Saraswatipuja 1425 https://shoptly.com/i/4xi 　 This quarterly is sharing some beautiful works of Dom Collucci, a cherished creator of Agnishatdal and much loved friend. 　 He is a wise soul, his wisdom and love for nature reflects in many of his works, which I am sure you will love like we all do! You will get the details of his blogs and published book in the quarterly too. 　 Agnishatdal you know is a monthly English Ezine created by a group of amazing people scattered all over the world, they create as per their whim so their creations are unpredictable and awesome! You will have to read the books to understand fully. 　 You know that these works are copyrighted to Dom Collucci. His contact is at the end of the book. 　 His Blogs https://zendom777.wixsite.com/mysite-2 https://wrotethesequotes.blogspot.com http://zen-inspirations.blogspot.com/ http:/

Agnijaat Book 8, Saraswatipuja 1425 https://shoptly.com/i/4xg 　 Agnishatdal Book 8, Saraswatipuja 1425 https://shoptly.com/i/4xi 　 Agnijaat Book 8 contains shlokas (translated by Swami Ramsukhdas, their English translations done by me) from Shrimadbhagwat Gita. These shlokas or hymns are from Gita, the words of Gita were the sermons Lord Krishna gave his friend Arjuna before the war of Mahabharata. When Kaurava and Pandava- two sets of cousins were about to fight each other to death! 　 Arjuna was one of the five Pandava brothers who after much harassment in the hands of wicked Kauravas led by Duryodhana their cousin decided to fight them and retrieve what was rightfully theirs from their unrighteous occupation. 　 When the two armies gathered in the Kurukshetra battleground Arjuna was aghast, he refused to kill his own cousins and decided that he will give up his rightful kingdom and become a hermit. Krishna counseled him to fight the war that had to be

SBP&B January 2019 Critique By Troy David Loy https://www.amazon.com/author/troyloy https://patreon.com/sharmishthabasu 　 His Story: Can young blood cure old bodies? Newspaper reporter Parjat AKA Rajkumar, finds himself working at a mysterious resort which treats wealthy clients, shades of Nosferatu! This could bear continuation, at least to tie up where this installment ends. 　 Her Tiny Friend: Young Surya finds an injured fairy lying in the woods, and brings her home to care for. When Surya’s family finds out about the fairy, they help protect her until her own people come to take her back, wand and all! This one was a fun read. 　 The Merry-Go-Round: A woman gets a warning about strange goings on at a local children’s park, one with a nasty reputation as a dangerous place. Then children start disappearing. Is it haunted, or something else? This one had some enjoyable dialogue among the kids. 　 River’s Gift: Young Chandrim is lonely, but the lo

SBP&B February 2019 https://patreon.com/sharmishthabasu Critique By Troy David Loy @https://www.amazon.com/author/troyloy This book features some the Authoress’ delightful art, combined with verse celebrating the seeking of the numinous, as a spiritual pursuit often undertaken by attempting and achieving union with the divine. This book is a beautifully illustrated paean to that mystical endeavor. Well done! 　

Saraswati: Bengali Poems with English Translations Critique: By Troy David Loy https://www.amazon.com/author/troyloy https://shoptly.com/i/roq 　 I really enjoyed this book, and learned a few new things, which is always good in my view! The verses are short, and easy on the ears even to us first-language English speakers, with lots of cool and graceful Bangla script to practice from as I learn more of that tongue. Excellent! 　

Coming Kingdom January 2019 Critique https://patreon.com/sharmishthabasu Critique By Troy David Loy @https://www.amazon.com/author/troyloy The Dream: An antique collector falls in love after a vision involving his latest purchases, and the girl of his, well, dreams. Literally. Some of the dreams’ content warn of murky doings, threatening the love of his life! Will he prevent the worst from happening to her? This one concludes nicely. 　 The Englishman: Raktim and Chandra purchase a new home, one with a bad reputation, and a haunted past. What dark secrets lie hidden to be found? Who is the mysterious and ill-willed Englishman? 　 The Girl: Raj and Mohana are childless, and desperately want to change that! Will Mohana’s wish for a child be granted in the wake of her strange nightmares? 　 The Village: Chandralekha is taken to a place across a mountain pass, and sacrificed to a serpent deity for testing. Does she pass the test? Does she return home or

Coming Kingdom February 2019 https://patreon.com/sharmishthabasu Critique By Troy David Loy @https://www.amazon.com/author/troyloy Fire Shanta and Mridul have an unusual problem: fires keep starting in the strangest circumstances, and the couple start seeing things, like the figure of a small boy who vanishes instantly. They then discover a tragic secret of the home’s past. 　 Loco Chand and Mahim are two rowdies with a bit too much to drink and too little money to spend on…entertainment at the local pleasure house. They come across a seemingly deranged woman lying in their path who turns out to be more than they had anticipated, and both fellows lose their heads–literally. Several other, similar killings occur, as several more predators of young women meet their end, all to the Devi Kali’s falchion.The moral: never try to violate a woman’s bodily autonomy, as you may just lose your head to the Goddess of death and destruction–the death and destrction of evil, p

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Agnishatdal Magh 1425 Critique: By Troy David Loy https://www.amazon.com/author/troyloy https://shoptly.com/i/86t 　 Greetings, O readers! It’s Falgun, so here’s the latest in a not-so-new series of critiques, noting what stood out, what’s new or updated, and what I liked. I’ll even throw in some questions on these as well, as this is a critique after all! So, let us begin! 　 Kanika Banerjee: A renowned student of Tagore songs, even with her most popular tune not actually from Tagore himself, she made a good career from her skills, though was taken from life in her seventies, too soon in my estimation. Along with Kanak Das , and the differing vocal styles they used, 　 The Little Boy and the Tiger, P. 5 Brian ends this serial with more of the brief part of his life in Cambodia, and from years later the revelation of the baby tiger. I too hope Petite-Ami lives still, a survivor of the terrible regime that dominated his country! A fitting conclusion. 　 Bra

Agnishatdal Falgun 1425 Critique By Troy David Loy https://www.amazon.com/author/troyloy https://shoptly.com/i/4jy 　 Vanakkam. This Chaitra, I give you something on last month’s Agnishatdal, 　 Let us begin…. Our virtual trip to India* This shows a girl in traditional garb in rural forest surroundings, maybe someone of an adivasi ethnicity? This pic has a nice balance of light and dark shades, particularly the light tones of dress contrasting with the dark shades of her skin. 　 Malati Ghoshal: As a student at Bethune college, trained in classical and Tagore songs, and best in those, it’s no wonder she was mentioned by the mentioned in the poems of some of the leading poets of her day. I’m putting looking online for recordings of her songs on my list of things to do for the weekend! 　 Pankaj Kr. Malik: What an amazing career this man had, as an actor, singer, and songwriter! That he took on the work of popularizing Tagore’s songs and teaching them to th

Agnishatdal Book 8 Critique – Saraswatipuja 1425 https://shoptly.com/i/4xi By Troy David Loy https://www.amazon.com/author/troyloy This annual features the works and writing of Dom Collucci. First up is an interview where we really get to know the scoop on how he writes, what we writes, and why. Item one, is a quick story of his life from the early 1950s to present, so the man has been around for a bit! What follows are twenty-one sets of verse on various topics, and these to me are quite good. My overall feel is that he’s quite a poet, and his experience in the military has brought him to many distant locales. I’m suitably impressed! 　 　

Agnishatdal Book 7 – Durgapuja 2018-1425 Critique: https://shoptly.com/i/y8z By Troy David Loy https://www.amazon.com/author/troyloy This collection features Raghunandan Kuppuswamy’s previous renditions of classic stories, beginning first with his interview by the eZine’s creator. Both the telling of the stories and interview were amazing, with lots of old wisdom told by a modern storyteller. Good stuff! 　

Agnishatdal Book 6 : Boisakh 1425 Critique: https://shoptly.com/i/pvc By Troy David Loy https://www.amazon.com/author/troyloy Many thanks to the Authoress for this eZine featuring stories and an interview I had with her. I’m of mixed feelings here, so I’ll make this brief: On the one hand, she does me great honor by featuring some of my work, and the opportunity to open up a bit in the interview. On the other, it reminds me that perfection of the writer’s craft is a never ending journey, and that I’ve a long way to go to being at all satisfied with my own work. Yes, impostor syndrome is a thing with me, and something I deal with daily! 　

Agnimalya January 2019 Critique https://patreon.com/sharmishthabasu By Troy David Loy https://www.amazon.com/author/troyloy Efiles: Detective Agni gets briefed on her target, and having gotten the testimony she needs, quickly brings down the villain. A fitting conclusion to this serial! It seems a bit heavy on explanation and light on action in places, but then this is a detective story, not an action story, and that’s often common for the genre. 　 The Scorpion Man: Deathstinger wants a wife, but not of his people, the scorpion folk, instead a girl of the tiny Inchlines. He takes one from her home, but soon becomes angry with his choice! 　 His would-be bride grows despondent, listless, and is soon returned to her people by his own scorpion children. This one was interesting, and I’d like to see more of the Inchlines and Scorpion Folk in future stories. 　 Surya: A young woman is traumatized, and kept in an orphanage after the death of her parents. Thos

Agnimalya February 2019 https://patreon.com/sharmishthabasu Critique By Troy David Loy @https://www.amazon.com/author/troyloy Return Young Rumi’s father works away from home, and one day, as her mother worries for his well being he returns, seemingly replaced by a lookalike who relates the tale of the man whose face he wears, his last dying wish to protect his family. I don’t cry often, but I did just a bit for this story. 　 Secret Lover A young man is in love, but the woman he loves has a…secret he cannot know without consequences–She’s a werewolf! It’s a short story, but told very well. 　 She A man falls in love with a young woman at a railway station, but they never speak. He finally resolves to speak with her, too late, for after one absence from their usual encounters, only a week later, she marries another. 　 The Attacks A newly opened mineshaft is plagued by violent attacks, and a team of paranormal monster-hunters is sent to investigate.

Agnijaat Magh 1425 Critique: https://shoptly.com/i/863 By Troy David Loy https://www.amazon.com/author/troyloy Salutations, O humans! This Falgun I offer the previous issue of Fireborn’s critique. I’ll not what stands out, what’s new or simply updated, what I liked, and questions that rear their heads, as this is a critique, after all! So, let’s do this! 　 Indie Author Speaks – Pocket Money or More 2: The authoress here suggests a website for helping out new writers become more financially independent. I’ve bookmarked the website for a further look. 　 From the Quill of Femme Sole: We are the big cheez! The authoress discusses the seedy side of guys who make remarks about female dress. it’s a common thing for guys to ‘mansplain’ morals to women through those remarks. Pathetic man-babies! 　 Hinduism and India – 1: The authoress notes the ordinarily ecumenical character of Hinduism, as opposed to Hindu nationalism and the bullying of non-Hindus by those sa

Agnijaat Falgun 1425 Critique https://shoptly.com/i/4jx By Troy David Loy https://www.amazon.com/author/troyloy Vanakkam. I hope this Chaitra sees you all well. I’ve this time critique of Falgun 1425’s Agnijaat, so let’s do this! 　 Shubh Shivratri* Here’s a pic of Lord Shiva meditating, accompanied by one of his attendant ghosts while a girl nearby fasts, hoping for good husband. 　 From the Quill of Femme Sole: Fight for my right!: Here’s cartoon using stick figures of women with misplaced priorities on both sides of a debate. Why the dichotomy? Why not both sets of rights? 　 Hinduism and India – 3: The authoress notes that Hinduism’s history is one of flourishing by adaptation to create a rising tide that raises all proverbial ships, other religions in India, for benign coexistence rather than strife. Hinduism’s proponents ought not to make their own faith disreputable! I agree. 　 Words of the Wisest 20 I find the notion of using one’s weakness

Agnijaat Book 7: Durgapuja 2018 Critique: https://shoptly.com/i/y8y By Troy David Loy https://www.amazon.com/author/troyloy This eZine collection features some of the Miss Basu’s art, with lots of images in celebration of Durgapuja and attendant festivals, featuring various Goddesses and one of my favorite Gods, Ganesha. These are highly enjoyable, with some of them showing interesting variations of texture! 　

Agnijaat Book 8 Critique – Saraswatipuja 1425 https://shoptly.com/i/4xg By Troy David Loy https://www.amazon.com/author/troyloy 　 This annual features spiritual views in the form of hymns from the Bhagavad Gita, translated by the authoress from Bengali to English with additional commentary to clarify their meaning. Many of these are accompanied by digital paintings by the authoress, and in many cases these help elaborate on the eZine’s themes. I rather enjoyed these, and hope you do as well for the view they open to the thoughts of the spiritual mind! 　 　

Agnijaat Book 6, Boisakh 1425 Critique By Troy David Loy @https://www.amazon.com/author/troyloy https://shoptly.com/i/pvo Theme for Boisakh fresh/beginning: This theme deals with letting the past go, with some interesting verse, and images featuring the embrace of the new, and making space in one’s life for the future. Sometimes the inner voice has advice of relinquishing a stuck situation, and what to give up! 　 Theme for Jyeshtha: inspiration: This theme deals with the capriciousness of the personal muse, such sources of illumination in a more metaphorical sense as the Moon and other sources of idea generation. Creativity is surely not something to teach with a template, but there are ways to harness it when needed that can be nurtured with practice! Loss can be a trigger for ideation, as can once’s surroundings. 　 Theme for Ashar: Summer Here, we take a look at the hoped-for pleasures, but usually the misery, of the hot season, when it’s a really good thing