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Origin of Bengali Brahmin surnames along with ill effects and implementation of Koulinya Pratha

 - 1000 yeras ago, local bengal king Adisur invited 5 brahmins from kingdom or area of erstwhile kannauj - King Adisur is a big landlord/samanta under pal dynasty towards the end of the pal dynasty (source: khitish bangshabali charitam charita - local lineage history record book of Khitish blood line) - Pal dynasty was budhdhist while Adisur was Hindu - Rard desh, banga desh, gour desh, baredra desh were the area under King/landlord/samanta Adisur - time line mentioned in poem: in same book - Bikramabda (this incident happened before onset of gregorian calendar) so 999 Bikramsambat (year) pusha nakshatra on shukla paksha (day) - 942 BC approx - Reason of calling: Adisur was without male child. In ved there is provision of putreshthi yajna. In that time there were 700 household brahmins in the same region but they were unknown to the Vedic Yajna of Putresthi. These 700 brahmin households are call saptasati brahmins. - notably bengal followed non vedic tradition. Mur...

How using a dishwasher brought relief to my family and how I use it?

 Making the choice I came across several youtube videos on dishwasher initially. I am a tech savvy person and love to automate repeatative tasks and I have a goal to automate most of my household repeatative tasks. So, that we get quality time together and are not dependent on domestic help for heavy lifting. We have children and not a large family where she would receive support in child daily activities from family seniors. As a result, we are very much on our own and have to depend on our own time management and on machines - washing machine, refrigerator, 2 wheelers, amazon scheduled deliveries, dishwasher for our comfort and daily work needs. Deciding on the machine I checked different dishwasher online and zeroed in on Voltas beko 8 place set. It is the smallest and the cheapest machine with the highest review in the online e-commerce space.I also did a market study to see if the dishwasher specific detergents are available offline. It is not available. I also went to a local...

Story of How I lost INR 40,000 by participating in Stock Lending and Borrowing Scheme (SLBM)

Background I came to know about it a bit earlier and there was a lot of paper work that had to be signed. I initially attempted to complete the process by sending it online after filling the forms and scanning them and sending them to IDBI capital official email ids. This was during the height of covid 19, so travel was still limited and work from home was going on. However, it failed as they required office visit in-person for form submission and verification. So, I waited another 1 year. I also came to learn that the scheme is still not popular and I am possibly the first one to apply for this scheme in the entire eastern India region of IDBI capital. I filled the form and resubmited physically. Procedure I needed to go to a specific SLBM page of NSE everyday and export the file in CSV format - https://www.nseindia.com/market-data/securities-lending-and-borrowing Then I needed to filter the spread with a value (not the blank ones) under series -B. SLB is generallay done on the stocks...

How to identify your dream company or dream job?

 I consider myself a level headed person neither too intelligent nor stupid, a mix of both. And I have spent a decade in the job market of India but my observations or key takeaways can be applicable to any other "employee" in any other nation. Firstly, there is no dream company accept it. That company you consider "dream company" will make profit at the expense of your job (fire you at the drop of the hat) or even your dead body. Try to have a professional and transactional relationship. Secondly, the salry structure and appraisals are rigged towards the profit of the company.So, if you think you want to become rich start investing in stock market (via mutual funds) buy REITs - simply buy "assets" with your salary that is what I did and over a period of time now I can see that my lifestyle is not tied to appraisal or promotion. It makes your life so easy. Thirdly, Have your own term insurance and medical insurance. Dont think that your company's group...

Advantages I found using Pampers and Kiddoos Diaper and Diaper Pants over others

Easy monitoring: Wetness indicators provide a visual cue to help parents quickly identify when a diaper is wet, making it easier to monitor their baby's needs and change diapers as needed. Increased hygiene: Regularly changing wet diapers helps prevent diaper rash and other skin irritation, keeping your baby's skin healthy and clean. Wetness indicators make it easier to stay on top of this. Convenient: Wetness indicators save time and eliminate the need to check the diaper repeatedly, especially during the night when parents may not want to disturb their baby's sleep. Increased comfort: Keeping babies in dry diapers helps maintain their comfort, especially during extended periods of sleep. Wetness indicators make it easier to ensure that their diapers are dry. Potentially reducing diaper waste: Wetness indicators can help reduce diaper waste by reminding parents to change the diaper more frequently and preventing leaks that can lead to diaper waste. Better for the environme...

My Experience with Diapers and trial and error frustations

 Diapers are a vital and essential item for new parents. With the variety of brands and types of diapers available, choosing the right one for your baby can be overwhelming. In this guide, we will discuss the important factors you need to consider when purchasing diapers to make sure you get the best fit and comfort for your little one. Size: Baby diapers come in different sizes, and it's essential to get the right size that fits your baby snugly without being too tight or too loose. Diapers are generally labeled by weight range, and most brands have a size chart that you can refer to. As your baby grows, you'll need to switch to a larger size to ensure a comfortable fit. Absorbency: A diaper's absorbency level is crucial, especially for overnight use. If your baby is a heavy wetter, look for diapers with high absorbency. Some diapers also have wetness indicators that change color when the diaper is wet, which can be a helpful feature. Material: Baby diapers are made from a...

Rohm Nexus Electric cycle Review after 2 years use

My bicycle brand is not very popular and is from Haryana and has no website etc.  It is rather unknown generic brand. I initially checked Hero lectro models but since lower end versions of Hero Lectro didnt had removable battery and I needed removable battery. So, I had to abandon Hero Lectro. I purchsed it from my local bicycle store. However to check the picture and configuration of this cycle I am sharing the link of this website which I accidentally stumbled upon while trying to look for a website of my bicycle's website for future customer care and warranty registration needs, at least what I thought would be delivered to me. Only online Link of my e-bicycle on the internet -  https://bliveevstore.com/product/nexus/ I have used this on bad city roads and for exercising purposes only. I also participated twice on 2 separate cyclothons and maximum distance covered on a single go was 20 kms.It costed me around INR 26,000/- including GST. The body material is no very good qua...

Film Review Drishyam 2

 Recently saw Drishyam 2 on Amazon prime. I have seen the part 1 of the Drishyam series starring Ajay Devgan. The movie is realling interesting with all its revealations and plot twists.However, to make the movie exprience more gripping, one should first see the hindi version of DRishyam 1. However, some of the parts looked over the top in the sense Sam's mother (mordered boy's mom -Tabu), even after withdrawing from police is used to deploy 2 serving female and male police staff and posing them as husband wife and buyer of Ajay Devgan's property. There 2 police staff is deployed for 7 years, over which they bug the house of Ajay Devgan and take recordings as we are later shown. From a logical stand point this looks highly illogical in the sense you require a degree of government approval for a closed case to deploy man and resource based on suspicion. Anyways it is shown that the whole town believed that Ajay Devgan has actually murdered and talks shit behind his back and ...

How I managed my more than 3 years old router TP Link Archer V7 without discarding it

 I am a permanent user of TP Link brand from the time I started using internet from around 2007 onwards. I find the Tp link routers best for home and small and medium office usage. the systems dont get heated uo quickly and easy to use interface. Now higher end versions like INR 2000+ models have mesh, VPN and cloud management support which can be controlled via Tplink android app, which is quite nice for system administrators in office as well as person who is managing and troubleshoot their home router on the go. I am using multiple IOT device(IR blaster,smart plug from oakter), mobile and amazon fire TV Stick, computers connected to this router. The router has 2 bandwidths 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz. It has openvpn which is an opensource VPN module and you can run the router as a server for this VPN and all connected device which is capable of installing the client application of openvpn server. I got a good Norton antivirus deal for 1 Pc 3 years license for roughly INR 1500. But as per ...

Experience of my latest Alipore Zoo visit on January 2023

 I visited Alipore Zoo on 16th January 2023. It was a monday and the midst of ongoing Ganga Sagar mela. I was searching on the the internet if online ticket booking is possible or not.So, yes it is but I physically booked ticket from the counter. If you buy ticket online, you will need to pay GST extra on the ticket. Adult (children >5 years) ticket price is INR 50/ person and children <5 years age is INR 20. Online ticket is avaiable on  https://kolkatazoo.in   and https://eticketaliporezoo.com/ . Since, online ticketing was not advertised by government so much, i was sceptical about fraud websites. Anyways when I reached the ticket counter I was asked if I had online ticket which confirmed that the e-ticket facility was genuine and you can avoid the hassle of standing in a queue. Due to Ganga sagar Mela possibly they had removed the parking facility from and around the immediate Zoo location and parking anywhere around is INR 200 irrespective of time you are parke...

Yashoda Telegu Movie Review

 The movie is very much realistic and based on stem cell treatment to reverse ageing using stem cells extracted from human foetuses. the movie is without any song, at least the version I say on amazon prime had no songs in it. I saw it with Hindi dubbing and the dubbing was good, it didnt feel outof place. It showed how the desire to stay beautiful and relevant, supported with political power and misplaced medical ethics led to the development of a statewide secret organization with its front face as a cosmetics company. However, in the back end the company was anonymously procuring poor women of child bearing age to become surrogate mothers and taking them to an underground secret facility until they are artificially induced with pain and killed and the foetuses are extracted and stored for stem cell harvesting which are then sold as age reversal treatments to rich people globally. Initially, the film appeared like a surrogacy scam where surrogate mothers were killed in operation ...

Movie Review: Ram Setu

The movie starts with a very unimpressive scene. Anyways I heard the theme was interesting so I kep watching. It showed taliban attacking an archeological site of Aryan Kulsrestha (Hindu) supported by Pakistanis and the afghan army is defending it. Now! if we put it correctly, Taliban were holed up until the US left and had no ground control. India had more presence and hold in Afghanistan than Pakistan, even now when Taliban has taken over the place. It is also shown than the spoils of the excavation site were taken into pakistan where a press conference of all pakistani press was hailing INdo-Pak brotherhood theme. Aryan Kulasrestha is shown as an aethiest and a nerd, with unshaven face like Viru Sahashra budhddhi ( Movie - 3 idiots). Then it is shown that the government in alliance with an industrialist - all of them Hindus collaborate with destroy a part of Ram setu on Indian side to allow shipping passage, for which they were fighting court case in supreme court. Here also we see ...

A Bengali's Review: ponniyin selvan movie part 1

 I had the opportunity of wathing this movie and I heard that this movie is a movie adaptation of a novel from the same name. The movie is worth watching and has a very engaging and complicated plot of trechery and shifting alliance alongside obedience and faithfulness. Moreover, it carried a strong undercurrent of being nationalistic and to rise above personal aspirations and the be part of the national missio, vision and value. Just the ingredients missing among the wokes of India presently. Anyways! I wouuld like to divided the the Movie into different logical segments that I identified:  Equal Rights for Women In the chola dynasty Woemn had say in affairs of politics, foreign policy and family negotiations and policy making. The Chola Emperor is seen taking advice from his daughter in the absence of his 2 sons. The same princess is seen to be coming in a room full of "male" Cheftains who were supposedly plotting to overthrow her father and breaking their plot through a co...

Sustainability of Youtubers as a Life Long Profession: Focus on Travel Vloggers, Moto Vloggers

 Youtubing has now become a formal profession and somewhat respected too because of the quick cash part possibly. I dont have any personal experience how much quick cash and how sustainable is it as a "career". I am sometimes quite appalled to see videos where women bathing is part of youtube and for obvious reasons garner high views, may not be subscriptions. The aforesaid example is a very extreme end of the scale, I believe. However, I am very much intrigued by travel vloggers and Moto vloggers which is a high investment work compared to shooting inside your home making funny memes or even shooting your own bathing videos and posting them on youtube as life vlogs. The first travel vlogger I started following was Mr. Varun Vagish / Mountain trekker channel. Although initially I didnt learn about his personal life or profession but he carried a sophisticated aura of an educated soft spoken person with deep insight and thought fullness in his travel approach. This is possibly...

2022 Movie Review: Rocketry The Nambi Effect

 I saw the movie in its original language 2 days back on amazon prime. The movie wonderfully depicted the work life and contribution and suffering Nambi Narayan faced socially, career-wise, family life and criminal proceedings. The movie scores very low in woke score. It doesnt insult Hindu customs and traditions in any way. It also highlights patriotism, self respect of an educated man and his genius in moving India from solid state fuel to liquid fuel. Building/assembling knocked down unit of 2 Russian cryogenic engines without any user manual and guidance. The movie starts with Sanskrit shloka and in the movie it has been shown that Nambi Narayan is both science minded and traditional in terms of practicing Hindu customs, traditional dresses. Much of the story is revealed in the form of an interview which Mr. Nambi Narayan is giving in a TV show. Towards the end the character of Nambi Narayan played by ace actor Madhavan transforms into actual Nambi Narayan who does a guest appe...

Review of Youtube Documentary silence of Swastik - The Biggest Betrayal of 20th century

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I had the opportunity to tour cambodia and visit ankor Wat Temple complex, possibly the largest Hindu temple complex in the world in 2019. There I have often come across wrong interpretation of Hinduism. The wrong interpretations were there in Museums, delivered by tourist guides,etc. But most of these, I now realise was from ignorance, false narrative of western authors and historians on their colonies. I was also under the influence of the fact that the Swastik symbol was taken up by Adolf Hitler and when he came to power swastika became a notorious symbol. Even by European colleagues in my last company know that swastika was a Hindu symbol and it didnt mean that harmful to us Hindus as it was for Hitler. However, during all these times from when I 1st read about ww2 in class 7 until today, thanks to our education system. It never occurred to my or neither any teacher made me think:- 1) why a christian man - Adolf Hitler who was born in a village to a very low level middle class pare...

A Bengali's Review of Marathi Movie Jeevan Sandhya

 Hello Readers! I have watched this movie only last week sunday. I liked the trailer very much. I dont know marathi so I was watching it with english subtitles. I also want to make a declaration in the very beginning that I have watched movies of 22 nations due to which the plot most often than not becomes "somewhat" obvious which was also is the case for this movie and also the cause of my liking for this movie. The movie opens with a scene where the senior citizen hero emerges out of a car and enters a law firm. He is followed by his wife. Their conversation confuses and sparks the curiosity of the law office receptionist who enquires about their reason for arrival to the law firm. Now the 1st part of the movie starts with the narration by the hero - Jivan abhyankar how he met his new wife after his 1st wife's death and the relaitionship developed into a love marriage. It also showed how negatively the son's and daughters of this aged couple reacted when they heard ...

Ohhoexpress.com: Customer's Negative Review

 I was a 1st time buyer and now the last buyer for e-grocery platform ohhoexpress.com

Did 34 years of Communist Government ruin the Bengali Businesses and local Business mindset in West Bengal?

It is often said now days among Bengalees that we are not business material, we are born to work in offices. At maximum, we are good at doing small businesses. We see that most of the businesses in Kolkata, our capital city is dominated by non-Bengalees. If you remember there were Bengalees as film producers in Bollywood not so long ago and now even the local Bengali film and television industry is financed by companies whose owners are non-Bengalees. It makes me wonder that did 34 years of continuous communist presence at government level and in the psyche of the Bengalee community in West Bengal and Tripura pushed the progressive and not so risk averse Bengalee community running after government jobs and salaried positions? lets dive into the time... Let's start by listing out Bengali producers in post Independence and try to chronologically order the reduction and disappearance from the horizon and see if a pattern appears over a period of time:- Hiralal Sen - Creative year ext...

A Bengali traveller's Review: 9 day Cambodia Trip From Kolkata India

Initially, I planned entry from Siam reap and exit through pnom Penh(capital). However, flight fare dictated us to start from pnom Penh first and exit from Siam reap. Cleartrip.com - Hotel booking cancellation confusion one fine sunday morning,1 month before the trip start date, I received call from cleartrip support stating that my Pnom Penh Hotel booking has been cancelled by the Hotel. In order to avoid these types of issues, I had already contacted the Hotel much before the call to book pickup and use this moment to reconfirm my booking, which both Hotels from Siam Reap and pnom Penh did. Now! this sudden call confused and scared me. I asked the support lady to contact the Hotel and confirm me back as I had already been in contact with them.She called back after sometime stating that yes all my hotel bookings are confirmed. Airlines(forward journey)- Kolkata to Singapore on Singapore airlines, followed by 9 hours layover. It was a midnight flight. New experience! Breakin...