Appreciation

Dear Editor, This week I am pleased to enjoy the Nazms entitled "Raunak" and "Zindagi". The write-up Belief and Faith with the divine photograph of Sai Baba by Shri Samir Shah is also very inspiring. With best wishes, Debi Mukherjee (India, 03/08/08)

Dear Editor, I very much appreciate the Poems of the Week specially the one Glimpses of a Poetic Travelogue which seems to be a new approach. Yours, Debi Mukherjee (India, 10/06/08)

Dear Editor, I sincerely appreciate the Article entitled Daakiya Daak Laaya appearing on this week's website. More such write-ups involving common people like Scavengers, Chowkidars etc. will be welcome and provide inspirations to others. Yours, Debi Mukherjee (India, 05/06/08)

Sciatica : The article is exhaustive, covers all aspects. Typically Opu. Thorough and detailed while being concise and precise. - Samir Shah (India, 22/05/08)

Dear Aparna, I express my gratitude for spreading gratitude and for your wonderful website. - Gokul Das Nair (USA, 17/04/08)

The write-up on Kamarpukur with the photographs has come out excellent. Thanks a lot. - Debi Mukherjee (India, 17/03/08)

Dear Aparna, your selection is superb - as always...I liked your Ma's Travel Diary on Maihar a lot ! - Lavanya Shah (USA, 28/02/08)

Dear Aparna, Read Ravindra Kumar's article how shameful are suicide incidents of the Indian farmers on your website. It is a nice piece. Its contents are quite informative especially regarding peasants’ role to Indian freedom movement. Ravindra Kumar is a well known Indian scholar and prolific writer whom I met in Austria. I am always eager to read his interesting and informative writings. All the best. - James Clause (Austria, 24/02/08)

Dear Aparna, Lakshman's poem was good. It was terse, simple and appealing to the aesthetic sense. Please pass on my good wishes to him. Keep walking, Lakshman. - P. Mohan Chandran (India, 21/02/08)

Opu, The pyaasa passion has come out very well. Superb. - Samir Shah (India, 18/02/08)

The emoticons that grace the Emotions page, the grey coloured background (balancing the emotions as well as the titanium logo), every detail is so carefully thought out and implemented to perfection. Anjuman it is, truly and always. Genuine kindness, caring-ness, thoughtfulness and generosity it is. Along with being meticulous and beautiful. Would do even the Japs proud. Indeed ! - Samir Shah (India, 07/02/08)

I really liked your website...It's really nice to see constructive activity of all sorts. Please do continue your constructive work. - Richard Menon (USA, 27/12/07)

Aparna, I simply loved your poems, you are superb when it comes to a deep insight into human psyche, your poems are not embellished by the attire of hypocrisy and hence they are very bold. Warm wishes, Arkay Dass (India, 26/12/07)

I browsed through your website and was extremely impressed with all that I saw. It is nice to know that such kindred spirits exist here and there. - Prince Rama Varma (India, 12/12/07)

Dear Aparna Chatterjee, Your style of writing is lucid. Also your write ups are informative and interesting. Please keep it up. All my best wishes for you. Yours sincerely, Dr. Ravindra Kumar (India, 05/12/07)

Shernaz's Essay is very well written. - Samir Shah (India, 16/10/07)

Akshat : Our Neighbour's Boy - Read Debiji's article. It is tooooo good. - Samir Shah (India, 25/04/07)

The treatise on Fidelity is accurate, thorough, from every concievable angle. Exhaustive. Remarkable in every sense of the word. - Samir Shah (India, 16/04/07). The Article made terrific reading. - Ramendra Kumar (India, 16/04/07)

Your poem, Radha-Krishna seems to have been composed on a wonderful imagination. Return of Radha is a new idea, which is very inspiring and interesting to indulge in such kind of fantasy that elevates one's spirit. So, your Radha-Krishna is new and wonderful imagination. Radha [incarnation of Dance] - Krishna [incarnation of Music]. So, Radha-Krishna means Union of Divine Dance and Music, I feel. - T.A. Ramesh (India, 24/03/07)

Aparna has always some pleasant read, Ashta Bharyas was quite revealing of the social dynamics of being a good husband. - Parthasarthy Sarkar (India, 21/03/07)

Chhoona Hai is...simple, innocent, almost like a child trying to catch the image of the moon in water held in a trough. Seeking God and Death, while seeking everything that Life brings along ! The Trough being Life, the Water being Death and the image of the Moon, God ? All three plus three interchangeable ? Haan haan ! Mujhe bhi chhoonaa hai ! - Samir Shah (India, 16/03/07)

Hey Aps, The Sun and Moon was terrific. It was sweet and lyrical with imagery that is haunting...I spent some evenings at a Goa beach, your poem made me nostalgic. I like the way you interweave quite a few emotions with great felicity. - Ramendra Kumar (India, 12/03/07)

Anjuman is so good, no words can express the joy felt. It is a most unique renewable resource with fresh energies flowing ! - Samir Shah (India, 06/03/07)

The Ashta-Bharyas : Excellent article on little known facts. - Debi Mukherjee (India, 05/03/07)

Hey Aps, De Sakoge To Bolo was out of this world !! Esp. these lines : tumhare rooh (soul) mein jaakar so sakun…aisa hee ek Astitva chahiye mujhe, de sakoge to bolo... - Ramendra Kumar (India, 28/02/07)

"Pain" opens up another dimension to Opu. Great work Opu. You somehow manage to do everything to such perfection, with such honesty and creativity that one ends up giving the same kind of responses. You simply dispossess the reader of every other response giving ability, than one. Small things...the detailing, the meticulousness, the thoroughness, plus the creativity, it all adds up to a maginificent total, as close to infinity as possible. Godliness. Your perfectionism is undiluted, always. Anjuman is numero uno without a doubt. - Samir Shah (India, 19/02/07)

Opu, Just struck a goldmine on Anjuman. The friendship quotes page. Fabulous! Am rubbing my palms in excitement and glee. Mazaa aa gaya. - Samir Shah (India, 21/01/07)

Sudip wins with his simple but effective, practical and sensible solutions in Is the Winter Cough and Cold Troubling You ? - Samir Shah (India, 14/01/07)

If I Knew was very touching indeed. Sad, the poet did not know. Nor did I know when my father passed away in Dec '05. Many thanks for bringing such a beautiful poem to us. - Samir Shah (India, 13/01/07)

In this week Management Messiah by Ramendra Kumar holds attention. Though I tried to control, it tickles laughter beyond control. A humorous satirical story about a raw headed stupid management consultant remindes me of the Donald Duck of Walt Disney comic character! However hard it tries, duck cannot fly like a gull or albatross. Whatever be the enquiry with such a duck the reply will be only "quack, quack, quack.." Satanic Idiot Box and Bikini-button and tongue tingling cleaner sugggestions by the Chief character tickles laughter! In reality mainly due to such raw headed stupids holding top most posts in all walks of life, India is reeling under quality less progress in various fields. Hard nuts like politicians and bureaucrats have to be cracked to setright the drawbacks of Indian technology to bring about innovations in science and technology. Perhaps the satirical stories by Ramendra Kumar may one day make our people realise and restore them to necessary alertness for making developments on par with other developed countries in the world! I hope that is not far off! - T.A. Ramesh (India, 10/01/07)

Ramen's works seem to be original and varied. Versatile. - Samir Shah (India, 07/01/07)

The instrumental "maine pyar kiya" sounds very good. - Samir Shah (India, 02/01/07)

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