AuthorIndrani Roychoudhury

Festival of Holi

20 March, 2019
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Holi is a spring festival celebrated in the Indian sub-continent during the month of March in honour of the Hindu God Lord Krishna. This is a festival of colours-a festival of love, friendship and bonding.
It is celebrated with enthusiasm and gaiety on the full moon day of the month of Phagun which is the month of March as per the Gregorian calendar.
Nature too, seems to rejoice at the arrival of Holi and adorns its liveliest colours. Feilds get filled with crops promising a good harvest to the farmers and flowers bloom colouring the surroundings and filling fragrance in the air.

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GIASOWA Learning Centre

18 September, 2018
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Ladies of GIASOWA were desiring to impart knowledge and training in extra curricular activities to under privileged children.
The Government Primary School at village Borij near Gandhinagar was adopted and we the ladies have tried to interact with the children to develop their skills beyond regular academics.
A learning centre was started by us on 18 th September 2018, the date of birth of our Prime Minister Shri Narendrabhai Modi.
It was inaugurated by Smt.Anjaliben Rupani, wife of our ex-Chief Minister Shri Vijaybhai Rupani.
I wrote this poem to commemorate the inauguration of the learning centre and have worked for the development of Cursive Writing skills of students.

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About me

Indrani Roychoudhury

Retirement after long service and movement of grown-up children away from home brought about a sea change in my life. I started reading Rabindranath Tagore’s poetry on nature, love and devotion which aroused spiritual leanings within me. Even cursory browsing of translations of Bhagwad Gita helped to sprout newer thought processes within my inner self. The result was peace with the difficulties of life.

Simultaneously, household activities started taking up more time. My dormant interest in cooking special dishes got life and simple items such as making Jhal Muri gave me immense joy. This simple Bengali street food travelled with me to USA and Switzerland where my son Meher was staying with his family.

During the Covid period my daughter Piuli stayed with me for 2 years when she encouraged me to experiment with a fresh style of dressing. Sartorially, I am a totally changed person which friends have started noticing.

An altogether novel interest in theme-based painting encouraged me to write poetry and paint in consonance with the subject. Simultaneously, my passion for upliftment of underprivileged children came to the forefront and I began coaching them at Sarita Udyan, a nature park in Gandhinagar where I stay. I am enthusiastic about education and development of girl child and my composition Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao drew inspiration from a call given by our Prime Minister Shri Narendrabhai Modi.

I feel blessed to have been able to develop this web site containing my compositions, paintings, and photos.