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  ADVENTURE: VISITING FRIENDS AND FAMILY ON MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND   Sachi G. Dastidar               My older sister Didi, i.e., Pratima Roy Chowdhury, was visiting her daughter Neela, i.e., Anindita Ghosh Dastidar, living near Ontario, Canada, and we have been thinking of visiting her. Unfortunately, U.S. visitor service is making people to wait for over two to 3 years to get a visitor visa. Didi and her husband visited us in New York over two decades ago, but that that didn’t influence U.S. consulate to give her a tourist visa. So, on Memorial Day weekend, we decided to visit her in Canada, but that included several stops that we wanted to make way back. Our stops included Christian preacher Arlene  whom our kids call in traditional way Arlene-Mashi or Aunt Arlene,  in Upstate New York near Poughkeepsie, new baby of Chapol and his wife near Syracuse in northcentral New York, MayaDi, Older Sister ...

    Book Reading at Austin, Dallas, and Houston, Texas "Bengal’s Hindu Holocaust: Partition of India and Its Aftermath" Sachi G. Dastidar   Big Texas cities of Austin, Dallas and Houston organized book readings in their cities, and invited the author for presentation and further discussion of a very painful event of the world but censored by India, Pakistan, Bangladesh media, as well as Western media of U.K., U.S., Europe, Asia and Africa. Here are the reports of the local Texas organizations. MasterDa (Teacher) Surya Sen Day, 2023 (Mr. Surya Sen was a school teacher from Chittagong, eastern Bengal, now Bangladesh, was a Freedom Fighter for India’s Independence who was brutally murdered by British Colonial Army.)   Chittagong Braveheart Remembered, Veteran Political Scientist Presents the Bengal Story Houston, TX — (March 27th, 2023) — Masterda Surjya Sen Dibosh was observed fourth year in a row in Houston, Texas organized by the Anushilon Somit...

  ARUBA: Island in the Caribbean By Sachi G. Dastidar Aruba The Caribbean             During the Spring Break in April 2023 in New York public school, Shriya-Lakshmi, 3 rd grader, decided to visit with parents and grandparents the island of Aruba, a part of Dutch nation, at the southern end of the Caribbean Sea, just north of Venezuela. Thus, we headed to Aruba. We heard about the place but didn’t realize its popularity until we started looking for ticket. We took a direct flight from New York City taking over four hours flying south crossing a series of islands on Caribbean Sea. We took a morning flight reaching the island before lunch. Our rental car began our journey. The island had no traffic lights, but roundabouts.             Aruba introduces herself as, “Whether it’s the glamour and resorts of Palm Beach, the activity of Oranjestad, the charm and loca...