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Today is the 27th of Valentine's Day of February. And today I wish to express my love and gratitude for the beautiful sunrises and sunsets. Here in Florida, we are blessed with a wide variety of vivid, soft, and always different ones. Such a pleasure to enjoy; beauty always makes life a little better.

 

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A Place In the Sun - Stevie Wonder (with lyrics)

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The Beatles - Here Comes The Sun (Lyrics)

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Sunrise or Sunset?

A poem by Joan Leotta

 

Staring into the sky as sun makes its appearance or slips away, I often imagine I can see beyond our atmosphere, beyond space, into the paradise that once was. Sunrise, sunset, two breaches of the wall of separation between this world and the next, shifts between darkness and light. I’ve watched sun rising up from water and, later, sinking down into it.

Over history, dawn is called the way to life, and sunset named as the passing out of it.

For me, both are times to celebrate that same shift, that brief moment that opens a narrow path between this world and the next.

I sometimes wonder why we claim one a start and the other a finish when the true beauty lies in that moment of transience, a movement between earth and paradise, dark and light that defies science, a movement only artists of brush and pen can define.

Red gold sun spreads

across the horizon line

in both dawn and dusk.

 

May every sunrise hold more promise and every sunset hold more peace.

Umair Siddiqui

 

There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.

Jo Walton

 

If you are in a beautiful place where you can enjoy sunrise and sunset, then you are living like a lord. The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again. There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope

Ram Charan

 

With heartfelt and genuine thanks for your kind visit. Have a beautiful day, be well, keep your eyes open, appreciate the beauty surrounding you, enjoy creating, stay safe, and laugh often! ❤️❤️❤️

   

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I know friends, that I have included many quotes, which of course, you don't have to read. I do sincerely believe with all my heart that war is the problem not the solution. We need to come to the table and work out our differences with dignity, compassion, understanding, knowledge and the real will for peace and to avoid physical pain at all costs. I believe and hope that this work to be a powerful message in that direction.

 

The sky takes on shades of orange during sunrise and sunset, the colour that gives you hope that the sun will set only to rise again.

Ram Charan

 

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

Vincent Van Gogh

 

Orange is the color of the sun. It is vital and a good color generally, indicating thoughtfulness and consideration of others.

Edgar Cayce

 

Orange strengthens your emotional body, encouraging a general feeling of joy, well-being, and cheerfulness. Orange vibration foods are: oranges, tangerines, apricots, mangoes, peaches and carrots.

Tae Yun Kim

 

Orange is the happiest color.

Frank Sinatra

 

Orange is the color of positive thinking and optimism.

Remez Sasson

 

Orange is a color of liberation, from the pains of hurtful love and inner insecurities. To channel orange is to truly be free, to be you.

Frank Ocean

 

Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.

Martin Amis

 

It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him.

Baudouin I

 

War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace with justice.

Norman Cousins

 

Wars never hurt anybody except the people who die.

Salvador Dali

 

Come you masters of war

You that build all the guns

You that build the death planes

You that build the big bombs

You that hide behind walls

You that hide behind desks

I just want you to know

I can see through your masks.

Bob Dylan

 

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

Aldous Huxley

 

The first casualty, when war comes, is truth.

Hiram Johnson

 

The belief in the inevitability of war is a self-fulfilling prophecy... We need an alternative vision, to see the world as one, as interconnected.

Dennis Kucinich

 

The great question is, can war be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on the Mount.

Douglas MacArthur

 

The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.

Gene Roddenberry

 

Preparedness for war is an incentive to war, and the only hope of permanent peace is the systematic and scientific disarmament of all the nations of the world

Anna Howard Shaw

 

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Shobhabazar : History

Sheths and Basaks, well-to-do traders at Saptagram, were among the first to settle in Sutanuti and are said to have cleared much of the jungles in the area. Neighbouring Shyambazar was named after the family deity of the Basaks, Shyam Roy (or Gobinda), the attendant of goddess Kali by Shobharam Basak, one of the richest native inhabitants of 18th century Kolkata.

Interestingly, no historian touches upon the origin of the name of the neighbourhood but all link its fame and growth to the Deb family, who settled there.

When Ramcharan Deb was murdered by Maratha marauders in the jungles of Midnapore, his widow came back to their house at Gobindapur with her three sons and five daughters. The house was washed away by the Hooghly River and they moved to Arpooly, and from there to Shobhabazar. Ramcharan’s youngest son Maharaja Nabakrishna Deb rose to fame and power.

The glorious days of Shobhabazar starts with the decision of the British to build, after their decisive win in Battle of Plassey, the new Fort William in the heart of Gobindapur. The inhabitants of the village were compensated and provided with land in Taltala, Kumortuli and Shobhabazar

Maharaja Nabakrishna Deb built his Rajbari (palace) at Shobhabazar. Some say that he acquired it from Shobharam Basak and made major extensions, matching his taste for pomp and grandeur. At least money was not in short supply. After the death of Siraj ud-Daulah, Nabakrishna Deb along with Mir Jafar, Amir Beg and Ramchand Roy earned eight crore rupees worth of treasures from the secret treasury.

Maharaja Nabakrishna Deb is said to have constructed the road from Upper Chitpur Road (now Rabindra Sarani) to Upper Circular Road (now Acharya Prafulla Chandra Road) and named with his own name. However, while half of the street was merged with Grey Street (now Aurobindo Sarani), another half became Shobhabazar Street. Another street north of it was namedRaja Nabakrishna Street.

Amongst those in the Deb family, who had streets named after them are: Raja Gopi Mohun Deb, Raja Sir Radhakanta Deb, Raja Rajendra Narain, Raja Mahendra Narain, Raja Debendra Narain (adopted side), Raja Raj Krishna, Taja Bahadur Kali Krishna, Maharaja Kamal Krishna, Maharaja Bahadur Sir Narendra Krishna, and Rajah Bahadur Harendra Krishna (own side). (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shobhabazar)

  

Shobhabazar Rajbari

Shobhabazar Rajbari (Shobhabazar Royal Palace) is the palace of the Shobhabazar royal family located in the Indian city of Kolkata. Raja Nabakrishna Deb (1737–97), founder of the Shobhabazar Rajbari, started life modestly but soon amassed considerable wealth in his service to the British, in particular by his role in assisting to topple Siraj ud-Daulah. During his lifetime Raja Nabakrishna Deb built two houses. The building at 33 Raja Nabakrishna Street (known as Choto Shobhabazar Rajbari), on the northern side of the road, was the one first constructed by him, subsequently given over by him to his adopted son Gopimohan. The house at 36 Raja Nabakrishna Street (known as Baro Shobhabazar Rajbari) was built by him when a son was born to him later in life and was left to his natural son Rajkrishna and his descendants.

  

Although originally a saat-mahala house the most intact of the remaining spaces is the courtyard with the thakurdalan. A saat khilan thakurdalan with multi-foliate arches supported on pairs of squared pilasters. Pairs of columns with plain shafts rise up between the arches to support the entablature above.

A large central courtyard with the thakurdalan at the northern end. A paanch khilan takurdalan with multifoil arches supported on compound columns. the double storey wings on either side of the courtyard connect the thakurdalan with the naach ghar to the south. The roof of thenaach ghar has fallen through and very little of the superstructure remains.

  

The Nat Mandap

A set of eight massive Tuscan columns support a wide projecting cornice at roof level. Two rows of multifoliate arches at the northern end provide access to the nabaratna temple at the rear.( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shobhabazar_Rajbari)

  

Sovabazar Rajbari: Where Clive met Maa Durga

  

Time may have robbed the Sovabazar Rajbari of some of its grandeur. The palace that once played host to the likes of Lord Robert Clive, Governor General Warren Hastings, Ramkrishna Paramhansa, Swami Vivekananda and several other illustrious individuals might have lost its sheen. But that has in no way dampened the Durga Puja spirit of the senior branch of the Deb family. With just two weeks remaining for the biggest festival of Bengal, the historic Sovabazar Rajbari is gearing up to welcome Maa Durga and her four children in its own traditional style. The house is getting a fresh coat of paint and masons are working overtime to ensure that everything is ready well before time. Kolkata on WHEELS looks back at the past glory of Sovabazar Rajbari

The patriarch of Dev family was Nabakrishna Deb Bahadur or Nabakissen Munshi – Lord Robert Clive’s munshi. After the demise of Ramcharan Dev, his son Nabakrishna was made to learn Urdu, Parsian, Arabic and English by his mother. A proficient Nabakrishna was appointed as a Persian teacher of Warren Hastings in 1750. This initiation brought Nabakrishna closer to the British high command and he was appointed as a munshi of Governor Drake and started sharing his intelligence with the British on foreign relation, which later proved to be crucial for the establishment British supremacy in Calcutta. It is also believed that Nabakrishna carried out confidential work for the British East India Company in the Battle of Plassey, winning over many of the zemindars.

After the defeat of Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah the celebration was all around in the British Colony. Lord Clive desired a grand ‘thanks giving ceremony’ for all the Britishers, but the only Church in Calcutta had been demolished by Siraj-ud-Daulah almost two years back. When Nabakrishna came to know about the wish of Lord Clive, he advised Clive that he could offer thanks to the Goddess at his Durga Puja. Instantly Clive had replied in a grave tone voicing his concern of him being a Christian. A wily Nabakrishna assured him saying, “That can be managed.”It is said the loot (Rs 8 crore) from Siraj’s treasury was divided among three people – Nabakrishna, Ramchandra Ray (founder of Andul Rajbari) and Amir Baig Khan.

Meanwhile the British had started rebuilding the fort at Govindapur and the Debs were given compensatory land at Sutanuti. Originally the property encompassed 23 bighas of land comprising the palace, administrative office, pond, tennis lawn, library, dancing room and garden and this was from where Raja Nabakrishna ran the seven departments which Hastings had made him charge of. Nabakrishna built two houses on either side of the road, now named after him. The original house went to Gopimohon Deb – his adopted son and another one for himself which eventually passed on to his own son, Rajkrishna born late in his life.

Durga Puja was introduced in October 1757 by Nabakrishna in his newly built thakur dalan which was completed in three months time by engaging extra labour. This house has two chief parts- the thakurdalan facing south and the nach ghar built to entertain the Europeans during Durga Puja. The two portions are linked by double storeyed wings, forming a rectangular courtyard of impressive proportions. The thakurdalan shows little European influence in its architecture in contrast to the later house the Nabakrishna built for himself. The compound piers with their cluster of tapering shafts support cusped arches and were topped by a decoration of bouquet motif, usually found in Mughal or Bengal temple architecture. Instead of European balusters we have a solid parapet decorated by terracotta plaques, though mostly lost by this time. The nachghar was entirely Mughal- influenced; it had tapering coloums, alcoves in the walls and a round floral design atop ogee arches. The roof though has collapsed. The later incongruous additions were probably made by Nabakissen’s grandson, Radhakanta Deb.

Nabakrishna threw his palace gates wide open and invited all and sundry from the three villages along with British dignitaries and other eminent guests. Lord Robert Clive, Warren Hastings and many others had attended the Durga Puja at Sovabazar Rajbari. The celebration used to start inside the palace a month prior to the puja in the presence of local and foreign guests and they were entertained with multifarious cultural programmes like kabi gaan, tarja, khemta for locals and bai nautch for the VIPs. A huge mela surrounding Raja Nabakrishna’s palace was also a central point of interest for the people.

Even after the passage of more than 250 years, the Durga Puja at Sovabazar Rajbari is still being performed by Maharaja Nabakrishna Deb Bahadur’s descendants at the same thakur dalan. Illustrious personalities like Sadhak Ramprosad Sen, Ramakrishna Paramhansa Deb and his principle disciple Swami Vivekanada and Rabindranath Tagore had graced the palace on numerous occasions.

Durga Puja of Sovabazar Rajbari is performed based on ‘Brihadnanikeswar Puran’. The image of the Goddess Durga has remained identical since the inception of the puja at this palace. Unlike other images the body of the lion resembles more a horse (like the unicorn) than that of a lion. The entire structure consisting of Goddess Durga, her four children, along with the Mahisasura, the lion are accommodated within a single compact frame which is called ‘ekchala’ in Bengal. Artisans start preparing the image from the auspicious date of Rathyatra and take around three months to give the final touch to the idol. The same ancestral moulds used by the fore-fathers for creating the faces of Gods and Goddesses are used till today. The artisans who prepare the idol have been involved in this profession through generations maintaining the age old tradition. Thirty-six Brahmins from across the country would be invited during the puja.

Sending off Devi Durga to her consort Shiva’s house is also done in a very special way. The family still maintains the tradition of carrying idols on the shoulder for immersion and around 40 people carry them till the ghat. On reaching the ghat, the clay idols are carried in two boats to the middle of the Hooghly and lowered there. Earlier two Neelkantha birds would be released during every immersion to carry the message to Lord Shiva that Durga has left for Kailash with her children but that practice has been given up for the past couple of years. (kolkataonwheelsmagazine.com/kolkata-history/heritage-buil...)

   

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Ram Charan, after a blockbuster hit like Dhruva, now all the thoughts are on his next film. Ram Charan generally takes some time between his movies. Even after the release of his previous movie Bruce Lee The Fighter, Ram Charan did not immediately sign for Dhruva. He took his time for his next...

 

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Dhruva 3rd Day, 3 Days Total Box Office Collection: Ram Charan starrer Dhruva movie has been fantastic in the opening weekend. The movie has collected superb amount in its first 3 days. The movie is nearing $1 Million in the overseas and is sure to cross the mark on its 4th day. In the telugu...

 

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