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By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on October 1, 2020 18

I am taking part in the My Friend Alexa Challenge and the announcement is a much-needed part.

I am also trying to do the Ultimate Blog Challenge.It’s a little crazy, but I enjoy participating in blog challenges .They help me learn.

I even wrote a book about all the blog challenges I love . But before all the other things,I have to publicly let you know my Alexa rank.This means you will know, what happens to my rank at the end of this month.It’s very public and scary.

First up My Global Alexa rank in 80,734 on 01/10/2020.

With all the writing and visiting other blogs ,I hope my blog finds new friends.That’s the goal.Do subscribe and let me know about it ,in the comments below.

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Since its October, how better to welcome the #MyFriendAlexa and #UBC friends than with my books?

I set up an Audiobook Page with the free audio chapters of a few of my books. It’s my way of sharing my work with those who want it, as much as possible.

PROBIOTIC & LIFE: A Beginners Guide to Probiotic Food and Total Gut Health |Nutrition Secrets(Part3) is on Amazon Prime Reading and free to read for the next three months. It’s also available on Kindle Unlimited

What Happened at Gour is free on Amazon today and tomorrow so get it quick.

Fun fact :Did you know these books were written during Blogchatter Challenges?

I started Blogging in 2014. Writing about my blogging journey was a sudden decision. But a wonderful way to share what I learned.

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Its important you don’t compare our beginning with other people’s middles .In fact it’s best not to compare.

The best part about the internet is, it’s open.It’ the best time to live in, because you can learn as much as you want.

That’s the catch.As much as you want.

You have to want it,you have to be ready to accept it,absorb it and assimilate it.

Then you can learn.

Lessons you learn from Blogging Challenges

Its important you try.Even if you can’t do everything, that you tried,puts you way ahead of the game.In most Challenges I am lagging behind on many days. I don’t want to try any more.But every year ,I try some more.

Most things worth doing are difficult.

You will learn .Trying new things changes us forever.You pick up tips,skills resources and creative magic.

It helps you find new readers.When you depend on organic traffic ,finding a friendly blogging community will be crucial.

You will feel wonderful that you did this in COVID times of 2020.Thats stuff history is made of and we are all a part of it.

Check out the Blogchatter website for the MyFriendAlexa deets .

Thankful for Independent India (WOWfeatured)

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on August 15, 2019 25

The best thing about India? There are so many reasons to be thankful for Independent India.

India is the country of hope. It’s the country of opportunity. It’s a country where the ancient practices of yoga and Ayurveda are discussed along with the latest in medical science. It’s a country where people come to find peace.

But peace is inside you. It’s not a place or thing. It’s not a person who can give you peace. Only you can. This understanding came to me when I started reading Gita. The adventures the Hindu mythology offers for the fertile mind is unmatched in other scriptures.

It’s a country of diversity. It’s a country with myriad colors and beautiful nature. It’s a country which lost its way and is trying to find it back.

It’s a country whose social fabric makes family important. It’s a country which made it possible for me to be a doctor. Expenses of Rupees 250 per year.Books I bought second-hand my mama (maternal uncle helped ) helped.

It’s a country where people everyday struggle to make ends meet and still celebrate all festivals. It’s a country with many promises which only we can keep. It’s a country which had termites eating it from inside, but now things are getting better,

It’s a country where we once believed in see no evil, harm no evil and speak no evil. Unfortunately, we need a new saying!

It’s a country of Satyameva Jayate. The truth alone triumphs. I have long discussions about truth and the relative merits of it with my hubby.

Thankful for Independent India (WOW post)

It’s also a country where we believe Lord Krishna said that

The truth which hurts is worse than the falsehood which heals.

It’s a country where Vivekananda said there’s no worship, greater than the worship of humanity.

It’s a country where we got rid of child marriage. Where Raja Ram Mohan Roy stopped sati and paved the way for widow remarriage.

It’s the country where Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose left Congress when he did not believe in what they wanted for India. A chapter of history very cleverly whitewashed!

It’s a country trapped between good and evil. It’s a country struggling to balance the old with the young. It’s a country trying to keep its history intact and carve a better future. It’s a country which wants its citizens to believe in secularism. It’s a country which wants you to be proud of the national song and national anthem. It’s a country where little girls dare to dream. It’s a country which gave me the chance to have a concurrent second career as an author and a blogger.

It’s a country where I can die for.

Cool India fact:

India is the largest democracy.It is an ancient and still living civilization (at least 10, 000 years old).

‘This post is a part of Write Over the Weekend, an initiative for Indian Bloggers by BlogAdda and I won the WOW badge for it.

It is also my #MondayMommyMoments post for Independence day.

Linking up with Corinne at everydaygyaan .

This post is republished on the occasion of Independence day.

Read 5 Reasons I am thankful for India

It’s Never Too Late to Believe in Yourself

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on August 31, 2018 26

When is it too late? When is it too late, to do what you want?We all have 86,400 seconds in a day.Nothing more or less .What you do with it makes all the difference in the world.

I feel it’s never too late to Learn

Learn from others experience.Learn from reading books.

Learn by doing every day. Discipline and habit are wonderful teachers.

Learn by writing.Writing down your thoughts are like self-spring cleaning. You end up writing that, which wants to come out. Difficult to hide true nature.

Travel

Travel everywhere and anywhere.

For two days or two years. For pleasure or for learning.With friends or family or alone.But travel you must.Travel is important to understand how similar we all are.How difficult life is, how beautiful love is!

To be on twitter

An alive social media where I found all my blogging friends.

It's Never Too Late to Believe in Yourself — It’s Never Too Late to Believe in Yourself

I feel it’s never too late to help. It’s never too late for lending a helping hand. When you help, you start a karmic circle which will come around. You never know when you will need help. When you help, the universe keeps that in mind and you will get help when you need it.

Remember Dumbledore. He said,

Help will be given to those who ask!

That’s what happens in real-life too. It’s never too late to ask for help.

Love

It’s never too late to Love.Love truly makes the world more beautiful. It teaches you to think about another person, more than you think about yourself. When you do that, you will know its love.

Live better. It’s never too late to live a little healthier and live well. It’s never too late to live with love.

It’s never too late to teach. Teach what you learned. Because you may be just one step ahead and that makes all the difference to the one just behind you.

“Live the Life of Your Dreams
When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve.”
― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

It’s never too late to make the world greener and cleaner. It’s never too late to plant trees.

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now.” Chinese Proverb

It’s Never Too Late to Believe in Yourself. Your choices make you who you are and how happy you will be. So choose wisely .‘

My 3 favorite Believe in yourself quotes:

“Believe in yourself. You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine.”Roy T. Bennett.

“You may be the only person left who believes in you, but it’s enough.[bctt tweet=”It takes just one star to pierce a universe of darkness. Never give up. Richelle E. Goodrich,” username=”misra_amrita”]

Distance yourself from negative people who try to lower your motivation and decrease your ambition. Create space for positive people to come into your life. Surround yourself with positive people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.” Roy Bennett

This post is a part of Write Over the Weekend, an initiative for Indian Bloggers by BlogAdda and I won the WOW badge.

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Give Me A Magic Wand And I Will (WOW series)

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on August 14, 2018 8

‘Give Me A Magic Wand And I Will do a lot of fun things.

I believe in magic.I seriously do.The magic and power in our thoughts. That’s why I believe we should keep optimism and high level of happiness to make the good kind of magic.

Give me a magic wand and I will:

Give all hungry people two square meals a day and teach them to earn for their other meals.
Ask Bill Gates, Sundar Pichai, Amartya Sen and Mukesh Ambani to find the solution for world Poverty and terrorism.
Find out where the money from various scams in the world are hidden and use it to make quality healthcare free for all.
I will suck away all the poison in the air and water and make it pure.
I would also make a solar-powered air purifier which you can wear as a necklace watch or a wrist band.
Not let you cut down forests without planting 100 trees close by and use this technique for making them grow fast
I will make supersonic horns and sirens which you see in the dashboard of your car or your GPS.
Make travel free with the travel pods I mentioned which would obviously be linked to the Aaadhar of good deeds.
Make rapists, pedophiles and all people who commit crimes against innocents, feel the pain of their victim’s thousand times every time they breathe.(This one’s is under the executive decision.Final results will be declared by God!)
Make exercise, healthy eating, living life with thankfulness and kindness hardwired into the free Jio phone.Only if you do these you get Free WiFi.Then people just might do it.
Make children play more and study more.We need more of this.
Make entrepreneurship, money management, positive thinking, kindness and thankfulness mandatory subjects in school.Extra credits for these.
Make work from home available to all moms when they want it.No change in salary or increment or promotions.
Definitely, make chocolate calorie free.But available only on showing you Aadhar of good deeds.

I pray to God so that I find my way to this magic wand.

Tell me about what you would do if you had a magic wand in the comments below.

‘This post is a part of Write Over the Weekend, an initiative for Indian Bloggers by BlogAdda.’

I won the WOW badge 3 weeks in a row.How cool is that?You can check out the other posts here

Linking up with #MondayMusings

One Dream that you Remember:WOW

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on August 11, 2018 11

One dream that you remember, is a Blogadda, write over weekend prompt.What’s it about dreams that make me happy?

I am a dreamer.I like day-dreaming with my book, curled up in the rocking chair while gazing out at my green balcony.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity – Khalil Gibran.

I have a dream.

Traveling by wishing.No packing, unpacking, booking tickets, nothing.No money worries, no hair tearing discussion about taking leave or getting late for the flight.

Only the fun of seeing new places, meeting new people and relaxing!

Long back when I was a child we could hardly afford frequent travel.Rarely once every 4 or 5 years.Studies, money troubles all made travel the least important priority.

The first thing I did when I got my first salary at Safdarjung Hospital was getting a fourteen inch Samsung Television.I still have it and it keeps reminding me what was and where I have come from.It also helped me travel vicariously through those glorious travel shows.

The next thing I did was plan trip to Shimla.The family traveled from Kolkata to Delhi.

I booked the Shatabdi to Kalka.But one thing was undecided.

How to reach the weird Nizamuddin station at 4 am at night?It was Delhi and we were females!God’s blessing and a kind elderly auto-driver helped when Ola and Uber were unheard of.Hiring a car was not in the budget!Thus my dream was a recurring one.

My dream has two very different sources of inspiration.The famous Goopi Bagha movie series by Satyajit Ray is the direct inspiration.In the movie, the two unlikely heroes get the gift of traveling anywhere, by wearing their magic slippers and wishing together while giving a high five!How cool is that?

While Harry Potter’s method of apparating, explained the hidden dangers and made it appear all the more possible.

Imagine wishing and blinking hard and you appear at your chosen destination.What fun if things would be as easy as that, with none of the risks of turning up without an ear or a nose.

I so wish scientists would discover special travel pods which could make this possible.A single pod and family pod.With options of zooming or zipping.Of one blink or two blinks.

The only payment needed would be your desire to travel and wishing really hard.Also, it could be linked to your Aadhar of good deeds and kind acts!

Clap your hands.

Wish hard and zoom!

Is this a dream.Is it wishful thinking?But isn’t all fiction and dream based on reality?

Maybe one day.

Have you ever dreamt an impossible dream?This post is a part of Write Over the Weekend, an initiative for Indian Bloggers by Blogadda.

Linking this #WritingWednesdays

Linking up with Bloggers Pit stop .

Thankful for Kolkata:City with a Soul #WOW Blogadda

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on August 8, 2018 34

I grew up in Kolkata.Rather still Calcutta to many of us.My memories of Kolkata has para cricket, picnics, and the pandal hopping during Pujo.

From having phuchka religiously every evening, to visiting the neighborhood temple.Childhood memories are wrapped in myriad sounds and tastes.

My home in South Kolkata has some of the most tree lined houses you will find in this city.With old and new houses jostling for space, this part of Kolkata still has its green lungs.

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The lake nearby and the well-paved footpaths, made for pleasant evening strolls with friends We still heeded all the warnings about wandering too far and strangers but the neighborhood was safe.

Shopping for household necessities, the best fruits veggies or my favorite fish, Lake market was a stone throws away.

Lake market now has a mall, The Lake mall. It’s cool, swanky with its own multiplex and BigBazaar..But the grocery shops in the main market, the fish market, and the local shops have survived.Because they too have learned the art of selling from the big businesses.It’s a beautiful amalgam of the old and new making a social tapestry.

The Gariahat market is where I went with my sister, for buying all the goodies for sale just before Nabo Barsho(Bengali New Year). I remember the many times we walked back home chatting and licking an ice cream cone, as the line at the auto stand was too long !.

We thought we were strong enough to tackle a few roadside Romeos.

I remember the time we all went for the late night show at Priya. Then scared to walk back home at one at night.Our home is 10 minutes away from Priya, but one am is not safe for walking!

Luckily we survived our stupidity.

Summer holidays meant going to moms office near Newmarket.The highlight was mom took us shopping and restaurant hopping.Some of my best memories are full of window shopping activities.That’s when I knew I have a shopaholics heart.Not having extra money helped me learn to rein it in and save for things that really mattered.I now window shop online too!It’s one of the best way to lift up my mood.

Visits to Nahoums in Newmarket, Mamma Mia the gelato heaven at Ballygunge circular road.The Biriyani at Arsalan, Golbarir Kashamangsho, prawn cocktail at Mocambo, Chelo kabab at Peter Cat, breakfast at Flurys and picnics at Victoria! That’s the food map of Kolkata.

While in Calcutta Medical College we used to haunt the Coffee house, Paramount (delicious coco malai sarbot, a mix of milk, malai, cashews, ice, cocoa and God knows what .But it was lip smackingly delicious).Don’t ask about calories or nutrition facts though.Some things are beyond that.

The famous sweet shop Putiram had crisply fried karaishootir kachori (Puri stuffed with peas) and an array of Sandesh and fried sweets which made snacking as important as dissection classes.

Having daab(green coconut) from the kaku in front of the college or cooling down with an ice lolly all was part of days work.

The cityscape has changed.People are grappling with air and sound pollution .joblessness and increasing immigration problems.The education and healthcare system is being challenged by exploding population, lawlessness and violence every other day I left Kolkata in 2007 for Delhi.Then came back again.Left again.

Kolkata is where I became a doctor.

Kolkata is where I got married and my darling daughter was born.Kolkata is witness to many joys and heartbreaks.It’s still my city.Wherever I go my heart will always beat for this city of joy.

Now living with my hubby and baby in a small town, but a Kolkata girl at heart.Show me the phuchka and promise a good adda and I will forget everything else.

Writing this for Write over weekends by Blogadda.

I am Thankful for being a Kolkata girl forever.

Linking this post with #MondayMusings

Update .This post won two awards,

One: The WOW badge by Blogadda

Second: mocktailmommies celebration contest.Light Sunday: Winning post .

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