Blissful personal experiences 💜

Mrs Monica Talukdar - the acclaimed Artist in her own right trained among others by the legendary Sh Benode Behari Mukherjee who was also the legendary Shri Satyajit Ray's Art teacher. HER WORK has been exhibited in many galleries In the country and abroad. She was also associated in a "Guru Shishya Parampara "with Dada  Dr Dwijen Sen - the well known Sculptor, Artist and Homoeopath Doctor of KALA KENDRA near St Thomas School and has taken much pain in further highlighting Dada Dwijen Sen's work after his passing away .She was the FOUNDER of "Uttarakhand Artists Association " I personally hold the "Book " she has authored in high esteem viz "Footprints of Bengal on the Himalayas " .To quote from the book itself about the Book - " More than a Register of some of the leading lights of the "Bengal Renaissance "who left their footprints on the Himalayas. The book contains many intimate accounts of these personalitie...

It is a SPECIAL DAY for me AND my family today as it is my dear mother Smt NIBHA DATTA's BIRTHDAY TODAY. She would have been 97 today. She was the elder of the two daughters of Dr PN SEN  - the retired Asstt Civil Surgeon of Shillong who thereafter served as the first Medical Officer of the Ramakrishna Mission Charitable Hospital in Laitumkrah Shillong for about twenty years till early eighties while his younger daughter Km Bina Sen was a popular Superintendent at the Office of the AG Shillong.who I greatly Miss too. Let me at this point also remember Srimat Swami BHAVYANAND JI - the Doctor Swamiji AND Secretary of the Ramakrishna Mission. Order of Shillong in the mid seventies with whom my late Grandfather started work at the RK Mission Charitable Hospital Shillong serving humanity. As a child I remember accompanying my grandfather ( now late) AND Doctor Maharaj in the Medical Mobile Van to the villages around Shillong in the Charitable hills to treat the p...