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 Editorial  Dear Anjali Readers,  Every day we receive quite a few e‐mails and letters  that  relate  to  friends  and  friendship. But do we have  the  time  in our  life  to  think about  these  after we  read  them?    There  is something  about  going  the  extra mile  that says more than words… The word friendship is simple yet has tons of power  in  it. Being a friend is an asset that is like gold, and having good friends is like platinum. It is interesting that  some  people  profess  to  be  a  friend  as long  as  everything  is  going  smoothly,  but true  friends  stand  beside  you  through  the good times and the bad. A real friend will tell you  the  truth,  not  just  what  you  want  to hear. A true friend is the most precious of all possessions  and  the  one we  take  the  least thought about acquiring.  The Baisakhi  issue  of Anjali  2010  has many articles based on the topic of friendship. My friend  Jaba  Chaudhuri  once  suggested  me the  idea  of  covering  this  particular  topic, which  I  grabbed  at  once.  It  is  amazing  that we  have  received  tremendous  amount  of cooperation  and  support  from  our  readers and contributors, which  is a  live example of friendship  in my  life! The articles  reveal  the fact of human perception of friendship from various angles. 

   My  sincere  thanks  to all of my  friends, who have  helped  me  to  publish  this  Baisakhi issue.  I  am  thankful  to my  stars  for  having sincere friends around me.    This year Anjali has decided to go paperless, and  promote  eco‐friendly  approaches through  creative  steps.  Our  magazine  is available  in  CDs  and  on  the  net, which will help achieve our goals  to  some extent. Our next issue will be published during the Durga Puja,  in  October  2010.  Please  feel  free  to send  your  articles  at:  editor@pujari.org  for the forthcoming issue.  I  hope  you  all  enjoy  this  issue  of  Anjali  as much as I have.  

Sincerely, 

SutapaDatta Editor, Anjali

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c¤¢V L¢ha¡ L¢h: n´Möï −chhjÑe HL¡, g¡u¡l−fÔ−pl p¡j−e L¥p¤¤j, HMe N¡t l¡a g¡u¡l−fÔ−pl p¡j−e h−p B¢R HL¡, f¡ef¡−œ luÉ¡m QÉ¡−m¾S HC f¡q¡¢s W¡ä¡u ¢hoæ pju L¡V¡−e¡l ph−Q−u i¡−m¡ Ef¡u e¡¢L Ajªa p¤¤l¡ g¡u¡l−fÔ−pl B…e, ýC¢úl Eo·a¡ −c−ql °naÉ j¤−R −cu ¢WLC ¢L¿¹¥ ¢hc¡−ul °naÉ −k a¡−a L−j e¡ L¥p¤¤j, HMe a¥¢j −L¡b¡u, −L¡e −c−n −Lje B−R¡ - ¢LR¥C S¡¢ee¡ BS HC n£a¡aÑ, a¥o¡lf¡−al l¡−a −a¡j¡−L L¡−R −f−a M¤h C−μR Ll−R a¥¢j k¢c −pC fËbj −cM¡l jae BSJ Q−m Bp−a--- H Bj¡l p¤¤l¢ia L¡je¡ eu eu EeÈe¡ f¡q¡¢s l¡−al fËm¡f H Bj¡l l¡SL£u fË¡bÑe¡z

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c¤¢V L¢ha¡ °Qa¡m£ −c e−l¾cÊf¤l, −L¡mL¡a¡ hå¥ h−m X¡L−m k¡−l hå¥ h−m X¡L−m k¡−l, ÙÛ¡e ¢cJ a¡−L j−el Ni£−l, −b−L¡ p¡−b c¤xM-p¤¤−Ml p¡b£ q−u, −a¡j¡l pLm c¤xM hÉb¡ p¡−b ¢e−uz Byd¡l l¡−a HLm¡ f−b, fb q¡l¡−m - q¡aV¡ −a¡j¡l H¢N−u ¢cJ hå¥ h−mz L¡æ¡ k¢c B−p −a¡j¡l JC c¤−Q¡−M - LøV¡J ¢cJ a¡−Lz j−el hÉb¡ −N¡fe −l−M Rme¡ ¢c−u i¥¢m−u¡ e¡ a¡−Lz Qm¡l f−bl i¥m ï¡¢¿¹ c§−l −l−M - p¡s¡ ¢cJ a¡lC X¡−Lz Hje hå¥ b¡L−m p¡−b - ¢hfc h¡d¡ bj−L k¡−hz öd¤ Lb¡u Lb¡u hå¥ h−m −X−L¡e¡ a¡−Lz X¡L−m k¢c hå¥ h−m, X¡LV¡ Bp¤¤L j−el −b−L hå¥ h−m X¡L−m k¡−lz

hå¥ Bj¡l J−l Ts h¡c−ml Byd¡l l¡−a hå¥ −a¡−LC My¥¢S, ¢WL c¤f¤−l g¡V¡ −l¡−c −a¡lC Lb¡ i¡¢hz Bj¡l −b−L A−eL c§−l, b¡¢Lp hý c§−l ah¤ −a¡−LC My¥¢S, −a¡−LC i¡¢h-- a¥C −k b¡¢Lp j−el O−lz kMe Be−¾c−a ERm ¢qu¡, a¥C −eC −j¡l f¡−n, Hje ¢c−eJ Be¾cV¡ i¡N L−l ¢eC j−el O−l h−pz ¢hfc kMe h¡s¡u b¡h¡, aMe Byd¡l ¢œi¨he-- −a¡lC L¡−R R¥−V Q−m Bj¡l i£l¦ jez ¢nE¢m −g¡V¡ nlv −i¡−l −a¡−LC j−e f−s hp¿¹−a −L¡¢Lm kMe L¥ýa¡−e N¡e d−lz hå¥, hpa −k −a¡l j−el O−l, b¡¢Lp S¡¢e hýc§−l- ah¤ q¡a h¡s¡−m −a¡−L f¡−h¡ hå¥ Bj¡l J−lz l¡N A¢ij¡e c¤xM SÆ¡m¡ phC S¡e¡C −a¡l L¡−R, −a¡l j−a¡ hå¥ Bj¡l Bl L"SeC h¡ B−R? −a¡l Ec¡p£ je kMe q¡l¡u Ec¡p jeV¡ ¢e−u- aMe B¢j ¢WL h¤−T k¡C −a¡l j¤−Ml JC q¡¢p ¢c−uz −eC −a¡ −L¡−e¡ Q¡Ju¡ f¡Ju¡- Ts −a¡−m e¡ −fË−jl q¡Ju¡z c¤"q¡a ¢c−u ah¤ B¢j −a¡−LC BN−m l¡¢Mz b¡L e¡ −l a¥C hýc§−l, b¡¢Lp −k a¥C j−el O−l- Hje L−l hå¥ q−u −k−e¡ ¢QlL¡m b¡¢Lz

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My Soul Is Looking Down

Souvik Mukherjee

I look around no one is around, Look up in the sky,

I see your eyes, Looking down at me,

I know you’re watching over me, I can only imagine,

If you were not watching over me, I don’t know,

What I would do, I would cry for you,

You would cry for me, But the thing you can do,

Is watch over me, Make sure I am safe,

I want to tell you, What is on my mind, All we will do is cry,

For each other, I look up in the sky,

I see you watching over me, I know your love is all around me,

I would say I miss you, You would spell it in the clouds,

You would spell it, So I know you’re missing me,

I put on a happy smile, I would cry happy tears.

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Someone Special                              Suporna Chaudhuri

There’s someone in your life

With whom you can laugh and cry;

There’s someone in your life

Who will hold your hand before you die…

That someone knows just what to say

When the sun backs down and the sky is gray.

That someone knows how to wipe your tears 

And ward away your hidden fears.

That someone in your life has a voice so strong

That you can’t help but sing along

When fate hands you options that are hard to choose

And all that slips off your tongue is the blues.

That someone is the one who never lets you down

And acts as a secret‐keeper or a clown

As long as you reward them with the smallest smile

Just to make everything worthwhile. 

So yeah, there’s someone in your life you couldn’t live without, 

The one whom you can trust in beyond a shadow of a doubt.

That someone is a person who’ll take you through the bends – 

That someone is a person I like to call…a friend.

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ME Tinny Datta 

 This year has been a time for many changes, All of them from various ranges.  Not too big, and not too small,  Just  the enough amount of all.   Change is a big word you see, For it can mean a lot to me.  This is a phase when things transform,  Or even whip up a different storm.  But a change is a change is a change,  It is a part of life, yet strange I have said so much about this,  Yet it insists  It insists talking about me,  I will do that soon, you will see. Let’s start now, I’ll say things that’ll make you go wow  Here I go, Let’s begin with grow‐    Growth, growth, growth It’s not only an oath I have grown too,  Along with the amount of dew   

     A simple snip in the hair,  It does so much more than care Confident strides,  It chooses sides  Being well organized, A person who was once disorganized Has gone through this mystical phase,  The phase that goes on for days.   Feelings and emotions are things we cannot ignore,  For they are the things that make my feelings soar. Soar high, in the sky,  Having the feeling that I can fly.   Fly to the left and fly to the right Feelings will blow as fast as dynamite. Now, these were some of my changes,  Even though I could go on for ages.   A change is a change and will always be a change It depends on you on how you arrange But always remember, The feeling and the thought,  Can never be bought.  

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King Thrushbeard

By: Trishna

A proud and haughty princess refuses to marry because no man is good enough for her. She mocks every suitor, especially a king whom she calls “Thrushbeard”. Her father devises a plot to make her less proud.

You may notice that this story by the Brothers Grimm has much in common with The Taming of the Shrew, the comedy by William Shakespeare.

A king had a daughter who was beautiful beyond all measure, but so proud and haughty that no suitor was good enough for her. She sent away one after the other, and ridiculed them as well.

Once the king made a great feast and invited, from far and near, all the young men likely to marry. They were all marshaled in a row according to their rank and standing. First came the kings, then the grand-dukes, then the princes, the earls, the barons, and the gentry. Then the king’s daughter was led through the ranks, but to each one she had some objection to make. One was too fat, the wine-barrel, she said. Another was too tall, and long and thin has little in. The third was too short, and short and thick is never quick. The fourth was too pale, as pale as death. The fifth too red, a fighting cock. The sixth was not straight enough, a green log dried behind the stove.

So she had something to say against each one, but she made herself especially merry over a good king who stood quite high up in the row, and whose chin had grown a little crooked. Look, she cried and laughed, he has a chin like a thrush’s beak. And from that time he got the name of King Thrushbeard.

But the old king, when he saw that his daughter did nothing but mock the people, and despised all the suitors who were gathered there, was very angry, and swore that she should have for her husband the very first beggar that came to his doors.

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A few days afterwards a fiddler came and sang beneath the windows, trying to earn a few pennies. When the king heard him he said, let him come up. So the fiddler came in, in his dirty, ragged clothes, and sang before the king and his daughter, and when he had ended he asked for a trifling gift. The king said, your song has pleased me so well that I will give you my daughter there, to wife.

The king’s daughter shuddered, but the king said, I have taken an oath to give you to the very first beggar-man and I will keep it. All she could say was in vain. The priest was brought, and she had to let herself be wedded to the fiddler on the spot. When that was done the king said, now it is not proper for you, a beggar-woman, to stay any longer in my palace, you may just go away with your husband.

The beggar-man led her out by the hand, and she was obliged to walk away on foot with him. When they came to a large forest she asked, to whom does that beautiful forest belong.

“It belongs to king Thrushbeard. If you had taken him, it would have been yours.”

“ Ah, unhappy girl that I am, if I had but taken king Thrushbeard.”

Afterwards they came to a meadow, and she asked again, to whom does this beautiful green meadow belong.

“It belongs to king Thrushbeard. If you had taken him, it would have been yours.”

“ Ah, unhappy girl that I am, if I had but taken king Thrushbeard.”

Then they came to a large town, and she asked again, to whom does this fine large town belong.

“It belongs to king Thrushbeard. If you had taken him, it would have been yours.”

“Ah, unhappy girl that I am, if I had but taken king Thrushbeard.”

“It does not please me”, said the fiddler, “to hear you always wishing for another husband. Am I not good enough for you?”

At last they came to a very little hut, and she said,

“Oh goodness. What a small house! To whom does this miserable, tiny hovel belong?”

The fiddler answered, “That is my house and yours, where we shall live together.”

She had to stoop in order to go in at the low door. “Where are the servants?”, said the king’s daughter.

“What servants?” answered the beggar-man. “You must yourself do what you wish to have done. Just make a fire at once, and set on water to cook my supper, I am quite tired.”

But the king’s daughter knew nothing about lighting fires or cooking, and the beggar-man had to lend a hand himself to get anything fairly done. When they had finished their scanty meal they went to bed. But he forced her to get up quite early in the morning in order to look after the house.

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For a few days they lived in this way as well as might be, and came to the end of all their provisions. Then the man said, wife, we cannot go on any longer eating and drinking here and earning nothing. You must make baskets. He went out, cut some willows, and brought them home. Then she began to make baskets, but the tough willows wounded her delicate hands.

“I see that this will not do”, said the man. “You had better spin, perhaps you can do that better.” She sat down and tried to spin, but the hard thread soon cut her soft fingers so that the blood ran down.

“See, said the man, you are fit for no sort of work. I have made a bad bargain with you. Now I will try to make a business with pots and earthenware. You must sit in the market-place and sell the ware.”

“Alas”, thought she, “if any of the people from my father’s kingdom come to the market and see me sitting there, selling, how they will mock me.” But it was of no use, she had to yield unless she chose to die of hunger. For the first time she succeeded well, for the people were glad to buy the woman’s wares because she was good-looking, and they paid her what she asked. Many even gave her the money and left the pots with her as well. So they lived on what she had earned as long as it lasted, then the husband bought a lot of new crockery. With this she sat down at the corner of the market-place, and set it out round about her ready for sale. But suddenly there came a drunken hussar galloping along, and he rode right amongst the pots so that they were all broken into a thousand bits. She began to weep, and did now know what to do for fear.

“Alas, what will happen to me?”, cried she. “What will my husband say to this? She ran home and told him of the misfortune.

“Who would seat herself at a corner of the market-place with crockery?” said the man. “Leave off crying, I see very well that you cannot do any ordinary work, so I have been to our king’s palace and have asked whether they cannot find a place for a kitchen-maid, and they have promised me to take you. In that way you will get your food for nothing.”

The king’s daughter was now a kitchen-maid, and had to be at the cook’s beck and call, and do the dirtiest work. In both her pockets she fastened a little jar, in which she took home her share of the leavings, and upon this they lived.

It happened that the wedding of the king’s eldest son was to be celebrated, so the poor woman went up and placed herself by the door of the hall to look on. When all the candles were lit, and people, each more beautiful than the other, entered, and all was full of pomp and splendor, she thought of her lot with a sad heart, and cursed the pride and haughtiness which had humbled her and brought her to so great poverty.

The smell of the delicious dishes which were being taken in and out reached her, and now and then the servants threw her a few morsels of them. These she put in her jars to take home.

All at once the king’s son entered, clothed in velvet and silk, with gold chains about his neck. And when he saw the beautiful woman standing by the door he seized her by the hand, and would have danced

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“Do not be afraid, I and the fiddler who has been living with you in that wretched hovel are one. For love of you I disguised myself so. And I also was the hussar who rode through your crockery. This was all done to humble your proud spirit, and to punish you for the insolence with which you mocked me.”

with her. But she refused and shrank with fear, for she saw that it was King Thrushbeard, her suitor whom she had driven away with scorn. Her struggles were of no avail, he drew her into the hall. But the string by which her pockets were hung broke, the pots fell down, the soup ran out, and the scraps were scattered all about. And when the people saw it, there arose general laughter and derision, and she was so ashamed that she would rather have been a thousand fathoms below the ground. She sprang to the door and would have run away, but on the stairs a man caught her and brought her back. And when she looked at him it was king Thrushbeard again. He said to her kindly,

Then she wept bitterly and said, I have done great wrong, and am not worthy to be your wife. But he said, be comforted, the evil days are past. Now we will celebrate our wedding. Then the maids-in-waiting came and put on her the most splendid clothing, and her father and his whole court came and wished her happiness in her marriage with king Thrushbeard, and the joy now began in earnest. I wish you and I had been there too.

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New and Old Friends

Nairita Nandy   

 

       Don’t let new friends replace the old What the old have taught you The new will just unfold The old has seen your virtues and vice But not the new You’ll have to play nice Eventually, new friends may falter But not the old The friendship won’t alter However, to you it may surprise That some new friends In the test of time, they rise And becoming in value Same as old Just to show you To not let new friends replace the old What the old have taught you The new will just unfold   

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Adieu Friend 

Kasturi Bose

 

Delve deep and you shall find 

A soul pure unblemished mind 

A friend in need is a friend indeed 

They said so and we all agreed 

Busy with life and its daily grind 

Out of sight but never out of mind 

Flawless in all he possibly not be 

Yet is there for you in adversity 

The world opens up a new appeal 

Renders an all new and vibrant feel 

A tune forgotten and words astray 

Melody lost to years and its sway 

Yet the song yearns to be hummed 

 

A friend chips in when all are numbed 

How some people lose their sanity? 

To give way to their pride and vanity 

Insensitive dealings on their part 

Initiate precious lives to depart 

Dreams to fulfill, challenges to conquer 

Set off to give shape to their goals afar 

Leaving behind a doting family so fond 

Home elsewhere made with work to bond 

Little did they know their end was so near 

Unnurtured ambition thrown out of gear 

Bizarre violence is the order of the day 

Innocent lives perish as they make hay 

Untimely, too hastily comes a premature end 

Buried under the debris was my dearest 

‘Friend’! 

 

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India  is  one  of  the  oldest  and  living civilizations in the world 

The  value  of  "pi" was  first  calculated  by the  Indian  Mathematician  Budhayana, who  also  created  the  concept  of  the Pythagorean theorem 

India was  the world’s  richest  country  up until the 17th century 

The world’s  first  university  Nalanda, was established  in  700  BC  in  India,  where students came from all over the world and studied over 60 subjects 

Ayurveda, a medical school in India, is the school known to mankind 

Until  1896,  India  was  the  world’s  only source of diamonds 

The  art  of  navigation  and  navigating originated from the Sindh river in India 

The  Baily  Bridge,  built  by  the  Indian soldiers  in  1982,  is  the  highest  bridge  in the world 

The first medical surgery was conducted in India by Sushruta  

  The  World's  first  granite  temple  is  the Brihadeswara  temple at Tanjavur  in Tamil Nadu, India 

 

 

The  Indian  film  industry,  Bollywood,  produces the most films in the world, ranging from about 2‐4 movies in a day 

The world’s largest employer is Indian 

Railways, with over millions of employees 

Yoga and martial arts both originated from India

India  never  invaded  any  country  in  her  last 100,000 years of history 

The world's  highest  cricket  ground  is  in  Chail, Himachal Pradesh 

India  exports  software  and  other  computer related technology to over 90 countries 

Varanasi,  the  “ancient  city”,  is  the  oldest  and continuously inhabited city in the world 

The  oldest  European  church,  built  in  the  early 1500s, still exists in India 

Sanskrit,  invented  in  India,  is  the mother of all European languages 

India  is  the  largest English  speaking  country  in the world 

Bhaskaracharya  calculated  the  time  taken  by the  earth  to  orbit  the  sun  hundreds  of  years before the astronomer Smart 

 

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