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  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 study of other books he collected.

  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). He has never faced financial hardship since childhood. Every

    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 boys of the family, used to dress like a small boy,   till she got

  DR. KADAMBINI GANGULY 1861–1923: BA, GBMC, LRCP, LRCS and LFPSG. THE LEGACY FORGOTTEN SARASIJ MAJUMDER Nehru and his education minister Maulana fabricated a distorted history which glorified MUSLIM & MUGHAL rulers in INDIA, and put all light on that part of CONGRESS, which was ruled by Mohanlal Karamchand, and  Nehru-Gandhi dynasty. Gandhi-Nehru dynasty hijacked Indian history using slave JNU scholars completely in such a way that many legendary leaders, and Personalities  are buried, and  forgotten. Kadambini Ganguly was one of the first female graduates in the entire British Empire (along with Chandramukhi Bose) and became the first female practitioner of western medicine not just in India, but in the whole of South Asia. More than a century ago Dr. Kadambini Ganguly was a very   big inspiration to the women of not only BENGAL, but also INDIA. Beyond a distinguished physician,   she was also Congress party’s first female speaker. As a doctor, she has crossed one peak