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Agnishatdal Kartik 1426, October2019

Agnishatdal Kartik https://gumroad.com/l/PJQvb Agnishatdal Kartik 1426, October2019 https://shoptly.com/i/jow Authors of Agnishatdal : Kartik 1426 We have a new kid this month, welcome aboard Labanya, hope you will stay for the longest time! 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: http://zen-inspirations.blogspot.com/ Raghunandan Kuppuswamy https://ksriranga.wordpress.com Troy David Loy http://troythulu.net   Pat Ritter http://www.patritter.com.au Freya Pickard: https://purehaiku.wordpress.com Robert Sherriff: http://www.robert-sherriff.com/ Labanya Citizen Null S

Agnijaat Kartik 1426, October2019

Agnijaat Kartik 1426, October2019 https://shoptly.com/i/jo7 Agnijaat Kartik https://gumroad.com/l/xzpKY Agnijaat (Fireborn) is a monthly English Ezine that follows Bengali Calendar. You will get lots of illustrations, poems, stories, thoughts, light and serious essays, cartoons, and a dash of spiritualism in this ezine, every month. I try to keep it as versatile as possible because I love creating different types of things! So when it comes to writing or painting I play by the same rule. Just check out a few to understand their worth! Subscribe for a year, it won’t burn your pocket I promise! One Year subscription for Agnijaat/Agnishatdal is $10. If you Subscribe for both it will be $17. You will get the Ezines each month and the quarterlies and annual issues for free. Price of each issue is $1 for each Ezine. If you want to read it you can try one of these methods: To subscribe: 1. You will have to pay via paypal https://paypal.

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Agnishatdal Book 10 by Troy David Loy

Agnishatdal Book 10 By Troy David Loy https://www.amazon.com/author/troyloy Gumroad Agnijaat 10th Quarterly Durgapuja 2019 1426 Agnishatdal 10th Quarterly Durgapuja 2019 1426 Shoptly Agnijaat 10th Quarterly Durgapuja 2019 1426 Agnishatdal 10th Quarterly Durgapuja 2019 1426 This quarterly shares some of the evocative and beautiful works of Sharmishtha Basu, the creator of both Agnishatdal and Agnijaat, and among the dearest of friends. She’s a prolific creative whose full bio can be found near the end of this quarterly. Agnishatdal is a monthly English eZine created by a group of people scattered across the world, and there’s always something to enjoy each issue. The works presented in this eZine are copyrighted by Sharmishtha Basu, and her contact information is included with her bio near the end of the book. It was an enormous amount of fun and a joy to select and arrange the items in this publication. I hope you have as much f

Kingmaker in Kindle in April 2020

This year a new book will get published in Kindle, along with the rewritten ones.I think five year break is good enough for a new title! The name wont be “Kingmaker” though, when I gave this name to the novel I was writing I had no idea that the word is so popular, after googling afterwards I decided I will look for a unique name, but I certainly will mention that it Kingmaker in case you are one of those who have liked the story when I was sharing it in my blog. Author Troy David Loy (https://www.amazon.com/author/troyloy/ ) edited this book and patiently handled this story set in an absolutely different culture from his! I will never be able to thank him enough for the editing (free of cost) he has done for my works. He truly is an angel without wings in my world! God bless him now and forever with the very best only! Kingmaker is the story of an evil emperor of organized crime and his courtiers, how they make and break lives utilizing the human weaknesses to the full. Their empire

Sharmishtha Basu's Pen and Brush March 2020

SBPnB March 2020 Sharmishtha Basu’s Pen n Brush https://patreon.com/sharmishthabasu Fresh from oven, I have been writing these stories from this very year’s beginning, having some fun writing them too, hope you will enjoy them too! The stories of course are of my present mood, versatile as they can be! Written to entertain myself and hopefully my readers, just read and tell me if you enjoyed them! Don’t forget to share your views, suggestions without any hesitation. My contact details are at the end of the book. As you all know these are my creations, copyrighted works, you are free to use them as long as you treat them as my property-mention my name as the creator and leave a link to my blog and inform me with the details of your use (non-profit) or discuss the financial side if you like them enough to publish them in your ezine, blog etc to sell.

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Agnijaat Book 10, Durgapuja 2019

Agnijaat Book 10 Gumroad Agnijaat 10th Quarterly Durgapuja 2019 1426 Agnishatdal 10th Quarterly Durgapuja 2019 1426 Shoptly Agnijaat 10th Quarterly Durgapuja 2019 1426 Agnishatdal 10th Quarterly Durgapuja 2019 1426 Wish you a blessed Durgapuja, and a very blessed Kojagari Laxmipuja and upcoming Kalipuja, Dipawali! May your world be forever blessed! This Quarterly of Agnijaat is all about sketches, it contains the paintings I have painted last year, as I painted them during the Durgapuja they were waiting in the folder to be used this year. Hope you will like them! If you want something extra, else don’t be shy, write to me! My email id is added in the end of the book(s). I will love to hear from you, compliments, suggestions anything will do! All works are copyrighted works of Sharmishtha Basu. You can share them with your friends but please acknowledge the creator. I will be very grateful for your sweetness. Wish you a

coming kingdom March 2020

Coming Kingdom March 2020 https://patreon.com/sharmishthabasu Upcoming Kingdom this month is sharing stories from previous decade! This month you will read bunch of short and very short stories spinning around human beings mostly- yes again! Apparently my mind was absolutely in human beings mode back then! These are my old works from 2010-11 that I am ruthlessly editing, rewriting! This month there are 52 micro fictions, hope you will enjoy them. Share your views, your tips and if you want me to add something in it, exclude something from it… feel free to tell me! You have all the details in the final two pages! You know the drill about copyrights, these are my works, copyrighted so if you want to share them in your blog or site please ask me, and send me a link after you have shared it so I can use that for my promotional ventures. Happy Reading! Sharmishtha Basu 17.3.20

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Sfulingo 3, 2019

The Kindle Issue of Sfulingo: Sfulingo 3, Agnijaat Annual Issue 2019 This is the third annual issue of Agnijaat! Thank you for making it happen. This year the book will share a set of brand new stories that I have not published before. Actually I edited them for this book only. So if you like my stories have fun. They are of course from my favorite genre, supernatural. Some stories are dark but most of them are lighter and more pleasant. Hope you will enjoy them and please drop me a line after reading if you can! Share your views! Sfulingo 3, 2019 https://www.amazon.com/dp/b07v6gz8rp Sfulingo Illustrated 3, 17.7.2019 https://shoptly.com/i/5tq Sfulingo Illustrated 3, 17.7.2019 https://gum.co/ADqpJ The Shoptly and Gumroad Issue of Sfulingo 2019: Sfulingo 3, Agnijaat Annual Issue 2019 This year Sfulingo contains a set of form poems, with appropriate artwork. I have written these poems years ago, only one on each topic then I was checking them out and d

Agnishatdal Chaitra 1426, March 2020

Agnishatdal Chaitra 1426, March 2020 https://gumroad.com/l/pmPKO https://shoptly.com/i/cwc Authors of Agnishatdal : Chaitra 1426 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: http://zen-inspirations.blogspot.com/ Raghunandan Kuppuswamy https://ksriranga.wordpress.com Troy David Loy http://troythulu.net Pat Ritter http://www.patritter.com.au Freya Pickard: https://purehaiku.wordpress.com Labanya Citizen Null Saptarchi Bitter Pill and Sharmishtha Basu https://agnijaat.wordpress.com https://agnishatdal.wordpress.com https://agnishatdalezine.wordpress.com https://agnijasha

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Agnidal 3, 2019

Agnidal is annual edition of Agnishatdal, the monthly English ezine created by a group of artists and authors scattered all over the world. Agnishatdal is 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! 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. Agnidal 3, 2019 https://www.amazon.com/dp/b07v5fw1pm Agnidal Illustrated 3, 17.7.2019 https://gum.co/UMVSg Agnidal Illustrated 3, 17.7.2019 https://shoptly.com/i/5t3 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! In c

Agnimalya March 2020

Agnimalya March 2020 https://patreon.com/sharmishthabasu Hope you are enjoying the stories, do let me know if you want something in particular. I will try! This month Agnimalya contains a bunch of stories again- stories I have rewritten, they are from my very old works, so often they are almost entirely rewritten, hope you will enjoy them! Their contents this month revolves around human being, no fantasy, simple, mundane and not so humane world. As you all know these are my creations, copyrighted works, you are free to use them as long as you treat them as my property-mention my name as the creator and leave a link to my blog and inform me with the details of your use (non-profit) or discuss the financial side if you like them enough to publish them in your ezine, blog etc to sell. Just let me know! Happy Reading! With best regards and wishes. Sharmishtha Basu 17.3.20 You can buy my book(s) from here too : https://Shoptly.com/sharmishthabasu https://gumroad.com/sharmishthabasu https:/

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The heart beats on 2019

The heart beats on https://www.amazon.com/dp/b00ztn8z1e It is a collection of poems of various taste. The poems of this book were written in 2015, when I was in Hyderabad. So the contents of this book has been edited only. I plan to keep most of the poems of this book, even in coming years, as a memory of that awesome time I passed in Hyderabad. Some memories should be cherished! Those months in Hyderabad is one of those memories to me! The poems in this book reflect my mood of that time. Hope they will touch you! They are versatile, as all other collections of mine. You will get many hues of life within these jackets. The general mood of this book I believe is happy things, real or fantastical. You know I can’t stay away from fantastical creatures and nature! Do drop a line after reading them please!

Agnijaat Chaitra 1426, March 2020

Agnijaat Chaitra 1426, March 2020 https://gumroad.com/l/fBwVj https://shoptly.com/i/cwo Agnijaat (Fireborn) is a monthly English Ezine that follows Bengali Calendar. You will get lots of illustrations, poems, stories, thoughts, light and serious essays, cartoons, and a dash of spiritualism in this ezine, every month. I try to keep it as versatile as possible because I love creating different types of things! So when it comes to writing or painting I play by the same rule. Just check out a few to understand their worth! Subscribe for a year, it won’t burn your pocket I promise! One Year subscription for Agnijaat/Agnishatdal is $10. If you Subscribe for both it will be $17. You will get the Ezines each month and the quarterlies and annual issues for free. Price of each issue is $1 for each Ezine. If you want to read it you can try one of these methods: To subscribe: 1. You will have to pay via paypal https://paypal.me/sharmishthabasu

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Join Agnishatdal!

  Have 12 works that you can share in return of 12 issues of two ezines? that is 1:2 ratio, give me 12 of your works and you will get a one year subscription of Agnijaat and Agnishatdal. I am not at all fussy, I have few rules only, you can share anything you want as long as it reflects good taste! It can be an essay, article, artwork, critique, story, poem, cartoon.... the list is long. you can send the works in my email id (sermistabasu@gmail.com and agnishatdal@hotmail.com) or if you are in linkedin [ https://in.linkedin.com/in/authorsharmishthabasu ] you can share there, it allows doc files and pdf files, I can convert pdf files into doc files don't worry, but before you do that copyright your works! That way no one will steal your work. You can get the details of rules here: https://agnishatdalezine.wordpress.com/to-writecontribute-in-agnishatdal/

Wildflowers in bed of rocks 2019

Wildflowers in bed of rocks https://www.amazon.com/dp/b0105j2jfe To every heart that smiles in storms. To every flower that teaches us to smile in adversity and privileged conditions! Tells us as they smile sitting in thorns, deserts and gentle gardens - Smile and you will spread light all around you, no matter how bleak your surrounding is! Salutes to those who smile no matter where they are. Human world is equally inhospitable to light, happy spirits I believe. It takes a lot to smile ignoring desert of unfair harshness of life, thorns of envy, everyone can smile in right environment but many chose not so smiling in right environment is an achievement too! Hope we remember how fickle life is and use that as reminder to smile as long as it is possible! This book contains a set of poems about nature, fantastical creatures, human beings and the world they create! Quite versatile when it comes to mood I mean! You know, explaining poetr

Holi 2020

Myriad colous of earth 2019

Myriad colous of earth https://www.amazon.com/dp/b0105jpae6 To this beautiful planet that makes every breath worthwhile. This beautiful planet so full of beauty and music, she makes our human life an unforgettable experience by decorating every single day with unique beauty, no matter how long we live no two days are never same, everyone is different from the other, in one way or another, thank you our beautiful home.. Keep my eyes and heart blessed forever, for one life is too small to celebrate you! Sadly we have but one! So keep reminding me that and allow me to soak in every single second of my life! This book contains a set of poems about human existence, its darkness and how to face it, rise above it, its behavior good and bad! These are pieces of my journey in a very choppy ocean and the thoughts that came crowding in my mind as I tried rowing my boat to the elusive shore. You know, explaining poetry is a dicey game, so check them out a

Of dreams and reality 2019

Of dreams and reality https://www.amazon.com/dp/b0105jdvh4 Life and its myriad tugs and pulls that bring out the best and worst of imagination, experiences. We all start our lives with dreams in our eyes and hope in our hearts. Believe me! The broken hearts and souls you see around you are the ones beaten by themselves or the world! Some pieces of those dreams, hopes and turmoil are wrapped inside these covers for you. Hope you will enjoy them! You can guess by the name that this book contained a set of poems about human existence, its vices and virtues, its behavior good and bad!  Then this year I added a bunch of poems of various mood and topics, written in my own style seventeen. Now the mood of the book has changed substantially so check out and see what you can gather from them. Hope you will enjoy it. Do drop a line after reading them please!

When the clouds dance 2019

When the clouds dance https://www.amazon.com/dp/b0105j2jko Listen and you will hear the symphony of world, and you will see the dance divine of life! This book initially contained a set of poems about human existence, its vices and virtues, its behavior good and bad! In few words about humanity and the earth that surrounds it. Then this year I have added a big bunch of poems written in my style, seventeen. These poems are about many things- nature, life etc-etc. You know, explaining poetry is a dicey game, so check them out and see what you can gather from them. Hope you will enjoy them. Do write a few lines after reading them to share your views with the author!

Melodies from moonlit nights 2019

Melodies from moonlit nights http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00WTXA11O Melodies from moonlit nights As my regular readers know and you might be interested to know I have shifted my illustrated works to my own bookshop in shoptly.com, so, I will keep my Kindle ebooks to words only, poem or story whatever – the books will be simply words. No more illustrations. I don’t write genre or mood-based books, this book initially circled around moon, the celestial one, but this year I have added a bunch of new type of poems in my own created styles, seventeen and seven. These mostly circle around life and of course nature and other things too show up in these. These are fresh lot, recently written (2016-2019), hope you will like the new additions and the style.

Waves that became songs 2019

Waves that became songs http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00WNZ63Z6 Waves that became songs: A handful of seashells from the beach of life, where ocean of life leaves its tokens. As my regular readers know and you might be interested to know I have shifted my illustrated works to my own bookshop in shoptly.com, so, I will keep my Kindle ebooks to words only, poem or story whatever – the books will be simply words. No more illustrations. I don’t write genre or mood-based books, this book initially circled around life, human beings but this year I have added a bunch of new type of poems in my own created styles, seventeen and seven. These mostly circle around life and of course nature and other things too show up in these. These are fresh lot, recently written (2016-2019), hope you will like the new additions and the style. A few words left by readers for the 2015 book Troy reviewed waves that became songs I enjoyed this! July 5,

Butterflies from life’s garden 2019

Butterflies from life’s garden http://www.amazon.com/dp/b00w6tgly2 This book contains a set of poems about the world of human beings, fairies and fantastical creatures and the divine. The tone is kept a bit mellow mostly, gentler. The genres are mixed of course, what did you expected from me? I never follow one genre do I? Hope you will enjoy this journey into land of fantasy! Every sensation that became poetry, every kind friend, admirer who gave them the courage to express themselves. Poetry is a very shy, timid flower that blooms for loving hearts, they make the poet brave enough to write things so close to their heart. I started replacing the contents of my story-books in 2017, I almost completely change them every year since then. Poetry books altering started in 2018 and will continue till I get bored. Poetry books are only altered, not fully changed, the majority of the poems will stay, maybe I will rewrite, edit them but they won’t be rep

Moments from the journey 2019

Moments from the journey http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00W5VIDHE This book contains a set of poems about God, human beings and their ways. We all know it is almost impossible to analyze poems you have to read them, feel them. So all I can say it contains a set of poems about human world in different colours-love, envy, pain, spiritualism with a healthy dose of philosophy. Hope they will impress you. Poetry is a very shy, timid flower that blooms for loving hearts, they make the poet brave enough to write things so close to their heart. If you are a regular reader you already know, if not well starting from 2017 I first republished my story-books (with new contents excluding the title stories), then I edited and altered the contents of the poetry books too, starting from 2018, As I don’t have any plans of adding un-necessary titles this will continue. Every year I will alter or change the contents of the books. In case of story-books the contents will be

Agnishatdal Magh 1426 Critique by Troy David Loy

Agnishatdal Magh 1426 Critique: Agnishatdal Magh 1426, January 2020 https://gumroad.com/l/RUPvJ https://shoptly.com/i/nis by Troy David Loy https://www.amazon.com/author/troyloy iravu vanakkam. naandaan Troy. It’s time for Magh’s critique of Agnishatdal, and I’ve such sights to show you – without creepy puzzle-boxes! Let Us Begin…. Our virtual trip to India Lovely pic this issue, with women carrying jugs atop their heads, from what seems to be near a local well or other watering source. A good selection of colors! Hemchandra It’s always cool to read of interesting scholars, and this man counts as such. I wonder how his work compares to, say, that of Nagarjuna, and his tetralemma-based logics? That Strange Circus Show Saptarchi asks a question of the usefulness, or its lacking, of strutting politicians! Masai: 2 of 4 I’m impressed that the Masai have held onto their culture as they have. Brieuc adds further details to th