A LIFE TO LIVE A MOST HONOURABLE DEATH AND LIVING BEYOND DEATH Captain Vijayant Thapar KARGIL WAR:3 May 1999 – 26 July 1999 SARASIJ MAJUMDER An young man in early twenties, just barely been joined the Indian Army for a year ago. .... His battalion 2 Rajputana Rifles was deployed in Kupwara, Kashmir to counter Pakistani Sponsored Terrorism in the valley. During his posting in Kupwara, this brave soldier used to take part in encounters with terrorists every now and then... and used to send them off to 72 fairies. There was a school near his army camp where a four-year-old mute girl studied... whose name was Rukhsana. This army officer, who had a very ruthless heart for terrorists, noticed that the innocent girl was very quiet... The young officer's heart melted at the innocence and helplessness of that girl. When he inquired about the girl from the school authorities, he came to know that she belonged to a very poor family... and her father was killed by terrorists in f...

  KNOW THY COMRADE 'Sitaram Yechury' BORN HINDU BRAHMIN—DIED MUSLIM(?)   CPIM general secretary and staunch leftist 'Sitaram Yechury' is no more.   Sitaram Yechury may have accepted Islam on second   marriage.   Yechury was married second time   to journalist Seema Chisti, who is presently the editor of ‘The Wire.’ By birth, he was a ‘TELEGU BRAHMIN’,   born in Tamil Nadu. Though he has not changed his name—seems to have changed his religion for second marriage. Since his dead body was getting prepared for burial in a COFFIN—this is my inference. Refer image below. Sitaram Yechury is survived by his wife, senior journalist Seema Chishti, who is     daughter of   Anees Chishti (journalist), and Sumitra Chishti (economist).   He is also survived by daughter Akhila and son Daanish. His elder son, Ashish Yechury, passed away in 2021 at the age of 34 due to Covid. Sitaram Yechury's first wife, Indrani Majumdar was the daugh...

  HENRY LOUIS VIVIAN DEROZIO THE STORMY PETREL NINETEENTH CENTURY BENGAL 18 April 1809 – 26 December 1831 SARASIJ MAJUMDER DEROZIO illuminated the intellectual sky of nineteenth Century Bengal like a Spark of a thunder, for a very brief period but left behind an permanent GLOW, still visible. EARLY LIFE: Henry Vivian Derozio was born at   present day Entally-   Padmapukur in Kolkata on 18 th   April 1809. He attended David Drummond’s school, then known as   Dharamtala   Academy. (Then spelt as Dhurrumtolla Academy .) He was an ‘EURASIAN’—father was probably of a ‘PORTUGESE’ ancestry, and an English mother. He had several siblings, he was a family man, and bore a close affection particularly to her younger sister, Amelia. Many think—his surname is ‘DE`ROZARIO’—which his family wrote as “DEROZIO”.   He acquired the following understanding of life in Drummond’s Academy, and through stu...

  A MODERN PHEIDIPPEDES MARATHONER WHO SAVED GREECE Boston Marathon’s Greatest Underdog Story SARASIJ MAJUMDER   The Nazi commander pointed a pistol at the man's head and shouted - "Tell me, who are you?" The man quietly lowered his head and took out his passport and some documents from his pocket. Seeing all that, the Nazi commander was surprised - this skeletal man is an Olympian? This man ran the marathon in Berlin Olympics in 1936! And that picture? Hitler shook hands with himself! The Nazi commander left. Greece was first  attacked by Fascist Italy in October 1940 . Though the initial invasion was repelled, a secondary attack led by Nazi Germany overwhelmed the country by June, 1941.In 1943, Greece was then occupied by the Nazis - a Nazi officer was attacked by a group of villagers but no one admitted who was behind the attack. Not finding the culprit, the Nazis lined up every male in the village and shot them. Our man was the only one who survived the ...

  KAMAL DASGUPTA 28/07/1912 to 20/07/1974 BENGALI LYRICIST, AND COMPOSER UNFORGETTABLE CREATIONS SARASIJ MAJUMDER     An average of 45 songs composed, and recorded per month, in 1946 income tax of 37 thousand taka(Rs.37,000/-)   paid by him.   He never set foot without a car on the streets of Calcutta. THE GOLDEN ERA OF BENGALI MOERN SONG( LIGHT)   , MILDLY CLASSICAL, AND MELODIOUS,   STARTED WITH HIS COMPOSITIONS. The composer was a man of taste. He owned a Buick, a rare thing in Calcutta in the 1950s. He was a great human being. He fed hundreds of people during the Bengal famine. He was also extremely fond of cricket.   In the last life,   he   had to open a grocery store in Dhaka, for survival.   Love had made him a BEGGER. And he died a PAUFFER . EARLY LIFE AND CALCUTTA : Kamal Dasgupta was born on July 28, 1912 in Benda village of Kalia police station, Jessore,   in EAST BENGAL (Now Bangladesh). H...

    Dr. HAIMABATI SEN CHILD BRIDE TO DOCTOR A LEGEND FORGOTTEN A BRIEF, WITH REVIEW OF HER “MEMOIR” SARASIJ MAJUMDER HAIMABATI   GHOSH (Hem) born in1866 at   KHULNA of BENGAL (now in   BANGLADESH)   became a child widow, married second time, became a Doctor, directed a Women’s Hospital, raised five children, and adopted over 400 orphans. She wrote her ‘MEMOIRS’—actually an autobiography, IN THE FORM OF A DIARY,     in a ruled notebook—which was confined to be   read only by family members. It was written in Bengali Language.   Later translated,   and published as a book.   I read, and have the book. The “Memoir” is a documentary of her fight ,oozing pathos, in personal, professional and social life against the male dominated social   background of nineteenth century Bengal. I am writing this BLOG after reading that book, and taking copious notes. She was cynosure of her father and got educated along with bo...