The Silent Express

This is the matter of my FB live on 21st June, 2020. You can watch the video  here Before you proceed: Checkout all the videos of the mental health series and other videos  here    You can check out my Facebook Page  here  and my  Instagram page here You can also check out my list of books  here . Good Evening friends, welcome to the second video of mental health series. You might like to watch the first one if you haven’t seen it yet. The link is given in the description. It was made in the aftermath of the unfortunate and untimely death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput. Happy International Yoga day and a very happy Father’s Day. While as I have already said that I am not a great fan of having a specific day for such things, yet no harm in wishes. Yoga by the way is very good for both physical and mental health. In the mentioned live video, I requested that anybody who has any kind of problems-psychological or something that may have their orig...

Back to list of all books The Tussle is the story of an Indian girl with a potential for excellence and the ensuing social drama that ruin hopes in an attempt to promote welfare. The story pictures a darker undercurrent that still runs in the veins of the Indian society as opposed to the bright and glamorous picture that the more privileged among us are used to. Mohona wanted to get out of the vicious cycle of poverty and ignorance and achieve the educational and social standards that her parents cannot even dream of. But then, her enemy is not only poverty but also the huge social misconceptions that continues to create insurmountable hindrances for many Indian village girls. The meeting with Aditya, the dreams and the reality and the competition with self-creates a perspective that leaves us thinking about what we really want and what we don’t. The stark contrast among the status of women in India has been subtly portrayed in this first book of the Mohona series.  Below are...

This is the matter of my FB live on 20 th  June, 2020. You can watch the video  here Checkout all the videos of the mental health series  here  You can check out my Facebook Page  here  and my  Instagram page here You can also check out my list of books here . The India-China face-off at the LAC, or the Line of Actual Control, has taken an ugly turn which led to loss of precious lives of our soldiers. We, as citizens of India must severely condemn such actions by our neighbors , irrespective of any political or social affiliations. While the Indian government has been prompt and has taken  strict action at the diplomatic and strategic fronts there is one more problem that the Chinese government may soon face alongside the unnecessary rivalry that the Chinese dragon has been igniting with the Indian tiger. The United States has introduced a Uighur Rights Bill calling for sanctions against China over the repression of China’s Uighur Muslims. The leg...

This is the matter of my FB live on 14 th  June, 2020. You can watch the video Facebook live or YouTube (don't forget to like, share and subscribe to the channel)  Checkout all the videos of the mental health series and other videos  here    You can check out my Facebook Page  here  and my  Instagram page here You can also check out my list of books  here . Hi friends, good evening. The untimely demise of highly successful actor Sushant Singh Rajput has shocked the country. May his soul rest in peace. But the string of celebrity suicide around the world has once again ignited a topic that is usually brushed aside by most of us-the issue of mental health. The problem of mental instability, depression and anxiety has risen significantly since the arrival of the COVID19 pandemic and the associated lockdown. But friends, is it the pandemic and the lockdown that has led to such consequence? Or was it already a part and parcel of our lifesty...

This is the matter of my FB live on 13 th June, 2020. You can watch the video here. You can check out my Facebook Page here and my Instagram page here You can also check out my list of books here. Hi good evening friends. Hope you all are doing well as the numbers of people infected by the novel coronavirus keeps increasing every day. Recently the diplomatic tension between Nepal and India has been one of the top news on the front of foreign affairs for us. Nepal is strategically an extremely important country for us and also our immediate neighbour. So, as responsible citizens of India, let us try to understand what exactly is the problem about. The Issue The problem started during the inauguration of the new link road from India to China that was meant to shorten the travel time for pilgrims to Kailash Mansarovar. The road, which has been built by our Border Road Organization, starts from Dharchula in Uttarakhand and covers a distance of 80 km till Lipulekh pass. Now the is...

The following is the Subject matter of my live session on Facebook. You can watch the video here You can check out my other posts on my Facebook page . You can check my Instagram page for my paintings etc. and the list of books written by me on this page . Date: 6th June, 2020 Hi friends, Good evening. The newspapers are filled with news that makes us feel bad. The cruel death of a pregnant elephant, the death of George Floyd, the issues of racism, violence and looting in a nation that claims and tries to set the benchmark of tolerance for all others and of course the ever-increasing death count from the pandemic to cite just a few. We also lost our beloved film maker Basu Chatterjee. Even though terribly saddened by the unfortunate events all around I am not going to talk about any of these today. I am going to talk about an entirely different topic. How many of you have been intrigued by the idea of a parallel universe?   There is a lot of science and science fiction that ha...

This is the subject matter of  my FB live on 14th May, 2020.  You can watch it here You can check out my Facebook Page  here  and my  Instagram page here You can also check out my list of books  here. So, I am back -and today I pay my tribute to one of the greatest filmmaker India has ever seen. Today is the birth anniversary of the great Indian Filmmaker Mrinal Sen. Sen was introduced to the world of film-making through “Film as Art”, a book by famous German film theorist Rudolf Arnheim. So in a way his career started in the National Library. Sen’s first film Raat Bhor which failed at the Box office starred Mahanayak Uttam Kumar. Interestingly the duo never paired again. It was Sen's second film Neel Akasher Neechey (1959), that first earned him national recognition. While his third film Baishe Srabon (1960) which was based on the tragic death of a child in a stampede during the cremation of Rabindranath Tagore earned him international acclaim. Bot...