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Containing more or less sixteen essays of varied characters, Essays in Idleness has been published in Kolkata Book Fair'2003. Some of his essays have featured in www.syhlleti.org. This has been first time we have published on normal media and the Collection has been received well.

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Mrs. Namita Bhattacharyya was born in 1953 in Tinkharia Tea Estate at Darrang, Assam and did her schooling at Darrang, Naogaon and Tezpur,all in Assam. Settled at Calcutta after marriage, she continued her formal education along with rearing up her two daughters, helping her husband in his Printing Business. Obtaining her BA (Honours) in Bengali from Bangabasi College, Calcutta in 1995, this indomitable lady is pursuing her Masters in English now.

In discussion with our contributor wordsmith, she has outlined her next project as to write a book entitled Sri-hatter Brata-katha and Stree-acha-rer Baichitrya. She hails from Burunga, Sadar Sylhet from her father's side and a lots of cooking delicacies presented in her book were heard and learnt from her grandmother and elders, she added. While questioned regarding the motivations behind the project, Mrs. Bhattacharyya says - "It all started because of Pushi, Tushi and their friends who appreciated my cooking while they used to come to the house. Later when my daughters were away, I used to write them menus and they asked for more ! Then it suddenly struck me that our desi cooking can be also very fashionable and tasty with simple ingredients and spices.Moreover some dishes, like one i gave you is special to Sylhet. Finally, i thought that why not write a book and lots of women and even men, living far and away from home may sometimes give a try to taste our Syhlleti dishes."

We congratulate this housewife, mother, writer and scholar for her ideas and works inspite of all odds. We wish her all the best and a special thanks from our webmistress to this lady. She can be contacted at Mrs. Namita Bhattacharyya

In part of our committemt for free software (Mindspace cannot be copyrighted !), please find freely downloadable free nagri font, created by Mr. Mannan from Dhaka. He has sent us a letter and we reproduce the excerpt - "Dear Ms. Barsha,I am from Sylhet, more specifically from Bahadurpur under Beanibazar Thana, a historical village famous for Naankaar Movement. It was so exciting for me to browse the web site www.syhlleti.org developed by you which is really rich in ideas and topics. Even in Sylhet, IT is much lagging and the development of web sites on our homeland is really poor.

I have attached the FONT, Keyboard Layout and a Help file. Just copy the FONT file (Nagree.TTF) to Windows Font folder or Add new font from Control Panel. Use any word processor, select the Font and enjoy typing amazing Nagree.

Please click here to download.

Publication of a Screen-Play on a famous and popular folk-myth of Greater Bengal by Mr. Sekhar Deb Roy.

The word folk (as derived from German Volk)is only an approximation of what in Sanskrit and Bangla is called as Loka-katha. These katha or narrative stories have entertained and fascinated generations of audiences. Scholars could find a window to understand the society in a better perspective. Later poets connected them to contemporary katha. The story of Manasa is celebrated in Padmapurana and Manasamanga where we find conflict between gods and men as in Greek epics. Goddess Manasa, who presides over the serpents exacts a terrible vengenance on the son of Chand, the Merchant by killing his only son. The widow Behula takes her dead husband on a boat, moves like a wandering cry through a landscape and river-routes that is Greater Bengal, and at last reaches heaven. There, finally, she was granted the life of her husband. The katha in its event horizon ends there. But as told earlier, in the hand of a poet, this event has been compressed to two lines and becomes a memory which is as mythical and as real -

Mr. Sekhar can be contacted at sekhar. He resides in Silchar and has been involved with drama and theatre for two decades.

The image at the cover is the image of Manasa made in shola and is found in Gauripur locality of West Assam. The book has been priced at INR 30.00 and contains a postscript by Mr. Amitabha Deb Chowdhry. To purchase the book, you can contact here.