Literature challenges one not only to think about ethical conundrums but also makes one sensitive and compassionate. When it blends with euphoria and nostalgia, the integral parts of human mind, it toughens and becomes sturdy. Man loves to live in his past memories to be happy. The experiences form a part of human personality and shape their behaviour pattern.
Nostalgia stores for us our memories which we relish lifelong. Even the lamentable days of past become pleasant. Though we might have ignored some not too pleasant incidents in our bygone days yet somewhat bitter experiences appear to be impressive and attractive. It is aptly said that the panorama of mountains appear beautiful and splendid from a distance. The bitterness of nearness is intolerable. The more we grow in years, the more our past recedes. Distance from the life lived long ago makes it sweet and desirable. Strain and stress of the present becomes frivolous when we slipand relapse into euphoric nostalgia.
The instincts of euphoria and nostalgia have been vividly handled by the legendry writers of all times. They have given various dimensions and definitions to the readers to redeem these human aspects yet many more stones are still unturned. These two instincts in the oeuvre of the legendry writer Ruskin Bond are the anchor points that suggest the scope of study. I have chosen to put forward the very idea about how a man’s body, mind and soul blend with traces of his past memories and support the holistic growth.

Our father’s blood-drenched face and faltering words were a forewarning to us. It was a signal to us to make our future bright through formal education. His broken words were a real eye-opener. Education is essential for dignity, social respect and emancipation from lifelong exploitation. Penury has been his close companion. He blessed us to follow a safer path.
The Struggle of a Bonsai is a humble endeavour to fulfil his last wish, minutes before his death on the Janmashtami festival at Mathura in 1951. Look at the coincidence! The first draft of this story was completed on the Janmashtami Day in 2024, exactly 73 years after his final departure. Had he been formally educated, his life might have been qualitatively different. I can visualize his blood-mixed tears peeping lovingly at me. Inaudible, feeble and incoherent! Each letter of this narrative is a tribute to him. He suffered all his life, but he wanted us to live a respectable life.
I have tried to commune with his spirit that we are a faithful band. If he were to see us, his tears of regret would have been wiped by our sincere efforts. I have failed to procure his photograph, and I don’t know how to draw him. Alive he is in our innermost heart chambers! The story has drawn his superb vision. Dear father, be no more despondent. May you rest in peace!

Selected english poems of Rabindranath Tagore

This volume compiles 10 adventures of Sexton Blake, originally published between1908 and 1909, unfortunately it was not possible to get the names of the authors who might have written these stories with surety, so we are not able to add any writer names.

Do you know that 4500-year-old Indus script signs were in use much after the Harappan era, when Indus civilization is believed to have been ended ?Are you aware of the use of Royal monograms of Indus in Maurya, Kushan and Gupta Era and also outside India e.g. Greece?
In this book writer used a different technique to decipher Indus script via phonetic values of basic Indus signs, vowel diacritics ,letters used to mention quantity (number, volume and weight) etc. He has gone through the pottery inscriptions first and tablets thereafter and then discussed about the names and other words found in Indus seals and inscribed on other items.
Out of 4000 inscriptions found so far , of which 2000 are still readable, Rajat was able to read 1,296 Sarasvati Scripts, it took 15 years .
Now all his methods and the journey to decipher the Script has been put into this book.

As written by the writer himself : "In my Peasant Life in Bengal I make the peasant boy Govinda spend some hours every evening in listening to stories told by an old woman, who was called Sambhu’s mother, and who was the best story-teller in the village. On reading that passage, Captain R. C. Temple, of the Bengal Staff Corps, son of the distinguished Indian administrator Sir Richard Temple, wrote to me to say how interesting it would be to get a collection of those unwritten stories which old women in India recite to little children in the evenings, and to ask whether I could not make such a collection.
So I did that, all the stories were in Bengali, and I translated them into English. "

Pradosh Chandra Mitter - yes, he is the same person as you imagined, but not with exact characteristics. He is not a detective by profession but solving crime is indeed his passion. His well-known companion Lalu babu is with him.
In this book Pradosh solves three mysteries. Yes, you can definitely say this is a fan fiction.

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The character of Sexton Blake was built in England during the late 19th century.
This was elaborated in the first part of this book published by us. This volume compiles 15 adventures of Sexton Blake, originally published between1908 and 1925, unfortunately it was not possible to get the names of the authors who might have written these stories with surety, so we are not able to add any writer names.

কোলকাতাতে ডিসেম্বরের মাঝামাঝি শীতের সন্ধ্যা একটু তাড়াতাড়িই নামে। পৌনে পাঁচটাতেই অন্ধকার। ফুটপাথ ধরে হেঁটে চলেছে ছেলেটি। বাড়ি ফেরার ট্রেন এখনও অনেক দেরি। রাত্রি সাড়ে দশটায় হাওড়া স্টেশন থেকে কবিগুরু এক্সপ্রেস। হাতে অনেকটা সময়। উদ্দেশ্য বইপাড়া থেকে কিছু বই কেনা।
বই কিনে সে ফিরে চলল তার বাড়ির দিকে। গন্তব্য স্টেশনে লোকজন বিশেষ নেই। নেমেছে আট দশ জন হবে। গ্রাম্য স্টেশন!
তার চোখে পড়লো তরুণীকে, ফেরার পথ ধরতেই ডাক ভেসে এলো তার দিক থেকে। থমকে দাঁড়ালো ছেলেটি।
চলুন যাই ইতিহাসের কুয়াশা কাটিয়ে সসময়ের ভাটার টানে! থিওমোনা ব্যাবিলনের রাজকন্যা। মহারাজ নেবোনিডাস ও পারস্য সাম্রাজ্যের মহারাজ সাইরাসের বাহিনীর যুদ্ধ চলছে ! সাইরাসের সেনাপতি জোপরাসের হাতে পরাজিত হলেন নেবোনিডাস। যুদ্ধবন্দিনী থিওমোনার জীবনে নেমে এলো অন্ধকার।
সময়ের উজানে আর ভাটার এই দুই বিন্দু কি কোনোভাবে মিলে গেল? তা নিয়েই এই উপন্যাসটি।

আপাতদৃষ্টিতে প্রধানমন্ত্রী জানালার পাশে দাঁড়িয়ে বাইরে একটি লাল গোলাপ এবং একটি নীল প্রজাপতি পর্যবেক্ষণ করছেন, কিন্তু আসলে তিনি গভীর চিন্তায়। একটু পেছনেই রাতুল ছয়জন শীর্ষ সামরিক কর্মকর্তার সঙ্গে এ আলোচনা করছে রাতুল, একটি জটিল পরিকল্পনা আস্তে আস্তে রূপ পাচ্ছে । প্রধানমন্ত্রীর মনে এই পরিকল্পনার ব্যর্থতার সম্ভাব্য পরিণতি সম্পর্কে উদ্বেগ জমে উঠতে থাকে।
ঢাকার একটি রাস্তার পাশের খাবারের দোকানে বসে আছে মাসুদ এবং রুদ্র নামে দুই যুবক, মাসুদের লক্ষ্য রাস্তার ওপারে একটি মেয়ে এবং তার সঙ্গীর দিকে, ঝকঝকে এই রকম জুটি দেখে তার দীর্ঘনিশ্বাস ফেলা ছাড়া কিছুই করার নেই। রুদ্র তার মায়ের স্বাস্থ্য নিয়ে চিন্তিত, চিকিৎসার খরচ বহন করার আর্থিক অসুবিধা নিয়ে চিন্তিত। মাসুদ তার বন্ধুকে সাহায্য করার জন্য একটি পরিকল্পনা প্রস্তাব করে, কিন্তু এতে আছে প্রচুর ঝুঁকি।
বন্ধুত্ব, দায়িত্ব এবং প্রিয়জনকে সাহায্য করার জন্য কতটা পথ হাঁটতে হতে পারে তা নিয়েই একটি মর্মস্পর্শী গল্প হল এই গডফাদার।