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My Wish(es) for 2023 (last quarter)

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on September 25, 2023 3

The problem with wishes is ,they have to be just right and always for the good .More accurately, greater good.

But if you have ever made a wish ,more likely than not its for a personal benefit or for a loved one.

Once upon a time I read in a book (a very famous one) ,whose name I will not mention now ,the trick to making a good wish is to just make a wish (a good one and not the naughty or potentially evil one), with all your heart and not worry about how it will happen.

So today I wish that in the last quarter of 2023,rest of the year I should be able to make the community around me greener and spread the word about the relation between good overall health and spending time in nature .That’s the one for the greater good.

From Chaos to Tranquility

I wish to publish Gold in Goa(Fifth book in the Krishna Mishra series)before Durga Puja.

Have you listened to my Krishna Mishra and the Mysterious Movie Star on Audible?It’s free to listen to.

I wish to paint,write and walk daily.This one is a tricky one and I have a plan for this .But like all other daily plans this one will need some will power.My quick guide to Nature Therapy for your Well-being is coming up soon.If you haven’t subscribed yet ,do it now.

Art in daily life

Memories of Mango season

Atleast Blogchatter helped me get this #BlogchatterBloghop published .

Recurrent Dengue Fever Dangers

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on September 24, 2023 10

Can you get recurrent Dengue fever? It’s a confusing answer. But one which you must know.

You can suffer from Dengue fever more than once. The dangers increase with every episode.I am an ENT surgeon and Dengue fever patients often turn up at my clinic with acute nosebleeds. That’s what is so dangerous about Dengue. You can bleed from anywhere!

Dengue fever cause:

Dengue fever is caused by the Dengue virus present in infected Aedes mosquito.Dengue virus has four distinct antigenic types. This means if you have Dengue fever from one type, you can still have a fever from the other types.

Recurrent Dengue Fever

In fact, Dengue fever from mosquito bites causing concurrent(at the same time two )or sequential(one after another ) infection by the different virus strains is the biggest risk factor to developing Dengue hemorrhagic fever.

Dengue Haemorrhagic fever can occur even during the first episode of dengue infection most commonly in infants. Their mothers are most likely having primary immunity to one or more strains of dengue.

Dengue fever is endemic in Asia and Tropical America and so higher rates of Dengue hemorrhagic fever.

Dengue Haemorrhagic fever Symptoms :

It will present suddenly. Mild asymptomatic to severe symptoms may be present. Symptoms include:

Sudden high fever, pharyngitis rhinitis
A headache: Frontal
Eye ache: Retro-orbital/behind the eyes.
Joint pains, muscle pains.Poor appetite.Nausea.Small reddish rash all over chest and arms.
Bleeding tendencies .nasal bleeding, gum bleeding

CAN YOU GET Dengue fever again after suffering from it once?

20 to 30% of Dengue Haemorrhagic fever may be complicated by shock.

There is a 24 to 36 hours of a serious crisis.40 % to 50% of Dengue hemorrhagic fever patients may die due to shock. But in better circumstances and with the availability of timely hospital admission with high-quality ICU support, mortality has been significantly lowered.

Mechanism of bleeding in Dengue Haemorrhagic fever:

Not totally clear. The following theories are assumed.

A mild degree of Disseminated Intravascular clotting in Dengue.Liver damage.
Low platelets. All these acts together to cause bleeding tendencies.

Less than 10% of people may have gastrointestinal or intracranial bleeding.

Dengue and Chikungunya are both caused by Aedes aegypti. That’s why in South East Asia both these outbreaks may occur concurrently.Dengue hemorrhagic fever is also known as Philippine, Thai or Singapore Haemorrhagic fever.

Other similar mosquitoes borne viral fever with rash are West Nile fever, Chikungunya, Onyong-Nyong.

5 Facts about Dengue and Prevention and do mosquito repellents work?

Public Awareness is crucial

While we expect the Government to do their part, we need to do ours. Keep your home, school workplace clean and free from waterlogging and garbage. Regular sprays and mosquito repellents are needed on a large scale in places with open drains.

CAN YOU GET Dengue fever again after suffering from it once?

Bursting population, poor sanitation, urban slums, the encroachment of drains and draining areas make mosquito breed freely. Everyone is at risk. But the newborn, elderly , those with other chronic diseases may have a more difficult time. Every episode of Dengue is a potentially fatal episode . The best thing we can do is prevent it. Get rid of mosquitoes for a Dengue free life.

Prevention and surveillance will help us fight this menace. But public awareness is crucial.

How will you know about previous episodes of Dengue ?You will probably have both IgG and IgM Dengue serology if different strains ,if same strain increased titre of IgG .

Municipality must have a definite action plan if we want to prevent this recurrent. problem.

Multiple episodes of Dengue are still being reported from all over. If we don’t take care, who will?

Reference :

Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine

Nelson Text book of Pediatric

CDC :https://www.cdc.gov/dengue/index.html

Updated September 2023

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3 Mystery Webseries(Bengali) on Hoichoi you must watch

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on September 17, 2023 0

It’s been some time since I have written about a web series we enjoy as a family.

Having an impressionable child means you try to screen the content you see on OTTs where the age limits are a little ambiguous. The Bengali web series platform Hoichoi has some interesting options, and I am bringing you 3 options for the weekend and the run-up to the Viswakarma Puja.

Mr.Kolketa
The Eken
Bouma Detective our recent favorite is very enjoyable

These three web series on Hoichoi are not only engaging but also age-appropriate for family viewing. So, sit back, relax, and enjoy some quality time with your loved ones this weekend and during the exciting build-up to Viswakarma Puja!

Mr.Kolketa

This series on Hoichoi has only the first season available now. It takes you on a madcap run around and under Kolkata’s lanes bylanes, markets, and temples. Mr.KalloKallol Datta (Kalke)is a clerk in a municipal office where his desk job fails to hold his interest and he rushes headlong into solving a murder and a missing treasure both of which happened at the museum. Enter Jhelum who is a disgruntled citizen, also the daughter of the prime suspect and together they form an unlikely pair in search of murderers and treasures.

What works

Mr.Kolketa played by Ritwick Chakraborty, Jhelum Sen played by Rajnandini Paul, and Mr.Jimut Basak (Kaushik Sen) play their roles well. My favorite though is Potai(Mr. Potochitra Dutta played by Master Aysuh Mukherjee) the nephew and occasional sidekick who is spontaneous and brings a dose of light-heartedness to sometimes grim situations.

Jhelum is spunky, smart (mostly) can kick well, and is not afraid to call a spade a spade. Plus she looks quintessentially pretty Bengali young lady in her sari avatar.

Mr.Ritwick Chakraborty is a brilliant actor and plays the part of the absent-minded history buff-treasure-hunter well. The entire support cast does their bits with an ease that gives the series its very watchable appearance.

What needs work

They are caught and threatened with bodily harm multiple times and the detective has zero survival skills. He is often beaten up and that’s cringe when he is roaming the underground with a kid.

The potential romance between the obviously much older detective and Jhelum needs a better screenplay to work well. Minor points which they can work on I am sure. Feluda has spoiled us forever and life will never be the same again.

Official synopsis of Mr.Kolketa

The theft of a precious muslin from a museum sends Kolke and Jhelum on a thrilling journey to uncover a mystery through the lens of history and hidden treasure in Kolkata. Take a tour of your familiar city’s unfamiliar alleys in Mr. Kolketa.
Director :
Surajit Chatterjee
Starring :
Ritwick Chakraborty, Rajnandini Paul, Kaushik Sen, Debesh Roychowdhury, Kaushik Chatterjee

Eken Babu

Eken Babu played by Anirban Chakrabarti, is getting better with every season and movie. Unfortunately, the original creator Sujan Dasgupta is no more. The webseries is watchable though the stories and the sidekick remind you of Feluda but in a much watered-down version. Every season the stories get a little more interesting and in the movie “The Eken Ruddhaswas Rajasthan”Anirban Chakrabarti is at his best. His happy-go-lucky character hides a sharp brain and his appearance is deceptive.

In the movie, he has a few action scenes and does a good job of making them believable. He is nothing like the quintessential detective hero we are used to and currently, that is what seems to be trending on OTT platforms. My favorite is The Eken: Ruddhaswas Rajasthan

What works:

Anirban Chakrabarti is a good actor and his mixing up of Bengali proverbs will make you laugh. He is in his element playing the absent-minded Bangali Babu who loves eating and rarely notices anything.

What needs work:

His side kicks change occasionally from the series to the movie and that gets confusing at times. With the creator’s demise, we need to see what happens next with the character

The official synopsis of Eken Babu

Eken Babu
Detective Comedy
6 Seasons
Eken Babu is not your average, middle-aged Bengali man. He is Ekendra Sen, a detective extraordinaire who effortlessly cracks complex cases in his own quirky style. And wherever a mystery takes him, he is accompanied by his friends, Bapi and Pramatha.
Director :
Anirban Mallik, Anupam Hari, Abhijit Chowdhury, Surajit Chatterjee, Joydeep Mukherjee
Starring :
Anirban Chakrabarti, Shoumo Banerjee, Debapriyo Bagchi, Suhotra Mukhopadhyay, Somak Ghosh

The Eken

Set in Darjeeling, this is the first movie and Eken Babu with his team is on the search for the murderer, a missing idol. A beautiful film star makes for a twist in the tale.

The Eken: Ruddhaswas Rajasthan
Detective Comedy
Eken finds himself embroiled in an antique smuggling mystery while vacationing in Rajasthan with Bapi and Pramatha. What happens when the situation gets out of hand after finding fake artifacts at the Jaisalmer Museum?

Writers: Padmanabha Dasgupta, Sujan Dasgupta

Director: Joydeep Mukherjee
Starring: Anirban Chakrabarti, Suhotra Mukhopadhyay, Somak Ghosh, Sandipta Sen, Rajatava Dutta, Rajesh Sharma

Bouma Detective

Currently watching and very enjoyable. Played by Aparajita Addha as Bouma detective and Ronit Roy her actor husband.

The very beautiful Aparajita Addha brings her A game to the table and it’s on her very capable shoulders that the series rests. Rono her husband, the superstar reel life hero(real-life horrible person)playboy played by Ronit Roy is the kind of man no real woman would like and he plays the mean, husband to a T . The kind who doesn’t admit he is married.( Remember a chocolate image superstar who did something similar?)

Anyway, he is the prime suspect in the unexpected death of his heroine in the middle of an intimate scene. His wife the much abused, much-ignored wife sets out to become a Miss (Mrs. Marple) with the hero’s assistant as a sidekick to save the screen hero from a life behind bars.

What works?

Ms. Aparajita is fantastic as the little wife at home who has let herself go to seed is very uninspiring and very much Biwi-number-one-ish.But that probably gives her the larger-than-life image because no woman should tolerate what she is doing(something like a former US first lady if you know what I mean).

Atanu the faithful Ronojoy assistant decided to help her solve the mystery

Cons

The Ronit Roy backstory needed a reason. Why in this day and age his entire family supports his need for a father-of-two to pretend to be a bachelor is anyone’s guess.

The heroines are shown in a horrible light. Apparently, no one bags a project without unfair means. That’s horrible even when it’s fiction. Some scenes are cringe and you will need to skip them if watching with a kid. The plot has several holes but don’t look for logic.

Official Synopsis

Simple homemaker Rohini decides to take on the role of a detective after her superstar husband Ranojay is accused of murdering his co-actor.

Stars
Rohit RoyAparajita AdhyaUtsav Sarkar

Other Webseries I like The Good Doctor,NCIS,Person of Interest on Amazon Prime .

Paperback version on Amazon Unauthorized?This what I did

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on September 10, 2023 3

If you are a self published author you would probably be happy that your book is selling.I am a very big fan of self publishing through Amazon.If not for KDP I woudnt know how to sell books.I never submitted books to big in small publishers, for the simple reason that I didn’t have the bandwidth to face rejections and earn peanuts. Life has it’s challenges without writing books becoming one of them.

But what happens when unauthorized people sell the paperback(or other) version of the book on Amazon?

You lose sale ,royalty.

What happens if they are bad quality versions?

You lose a reader and a potential bad review.

So What can you do?

Two of my nonfiction books and 1 fiction book seem to attract such spurious publishers and sellers.

Every day there is some new published doing this.

Whenever I find such a thing I add the book to my cart.

Paperback version on Amazon Unauthorized?This what I did

Message the Amazon chatbot about the issue.

The chatbot says he has no idea ,how to respond and would I like to contact the seller.

I answer yes.

Usually the seller responds saying he had no idea about this and he has imported these books from USA .My books being published in USA and imported to India sounds like a dream.One was priced at 14000 INR and discounted to 1000 something.Seriously what are these people doing with the everything store is anyone’s guess.

Usually the seller says he will stop selling that .

The same thing happens after a few days or months.I repeat the sequence of events.

I wonder why Amazon doesn’t do due diligence for their sellers who are selling counterfeit,unauthorized Copyrighted content .Amazon KDP is a wonderful opportunity for self publishing. Things like these will make it unprofitable and not worth the trouble in the long run.

Also did you read about what Jane Friedman the famous author(The Business of Being a Writer)found books with her name on them which was not hers and Amazon asked her whether she had a copyright to her name!She didn’t and that started an avalanche of questions which you can definitely read about if you google the topic.

As of today, there are about half a dozen books being sold on Amazon, with my name on them, that I did not write or publish. Some huckster generated them using AI. This promises to be a serious problem for the book publishing world. https://t.co/YXcMlJeTMV
— Jane Friedman (@JaneFriedman) August 7, 2023

Have you ever faced something like this?

Let me know in the comments below.

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Shree Krishna Life Lessons |Image|Wall Paper|Video

By Dr.Amrita Basu(MBBS,MS) on September 7, 2023 0

When Prince Arjuna refused to fight against his cousins the Kaurava, and wanted to escape from his duty, Lord Krishna explained to him the necessity of standing up for what’s right for the world. The truth and action that will bring peace.

Shree Krishna art video by Anuprita Misra

That’s what’s explained in the Bhagavad Gita. But those dialogues are not just words of wisdom, they are much more. They hold the essence of Hinduism, of the eternal truth and the ways to salvation. There may be many ways, our journey in life is to find the eternal truth.

Not one way but many ways. What’s suitable for you may be unsuitable for me. Whichever road one chooses if you believe, you will find him. Because he us everywhere.In you, me, all living nonliving things.

Reading and understanding Lord Krishna’s Teachings is a wonderful way to a fulfilled life in this world and after. He doesn’t require a lot but just your faith in him. Having faith in your own self is the same as your faith in him. Because he is You.

What does Shree Krishna teach us about Life?

Bhagavad Gita Lord Krishna Teachings I Love

These are in English so obviously translation, but not verbatim. They are in essence what the interpreters understood from his teaching. For your own understanding, you can always explore the Bhagavad Geeta you

By thinking about Lord Krishna with one mind and not doing any work is not the best way to find him. You will find him in everything you do and every work you do with sincerity. Sincere hard work for the good is the best way to get blessed by Lord Krishna.

You are what you believe in. You become that which you believe you can become

Believe with your mind and heart and with intelligence not just blindly. That’s the strongest bond with Lord Krishna.

The embodied soul is eternal in existence, indestructible, and infinite, only the material body is factually perishable, therefore Fight O Arjuna.

No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come.

Radha Krishna mandir inauguration in Malda — *Radha Krishna Mandir inauguration in Malda*

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

There is nothing lost or wasted in this life.”

A man’s own self is his friend. A man’s own self is his foe.

The wise work for the welfare of the world, without thought for themselves.”

Highly intelligent people need to find their own answers and adventures. Nothing as boring as following a set path works for them.

Lord Krishna on Janmashtami with Shubha Janmashtami written in Bengali.Artist Anuprita Misra — *Image credit Anuprita Misra*

While I write for a lot of reasons,I have no formal education in religious scriptures except the Paanchali (which I read like a storybook since I was in class five) and the Gita. What I understand is, that praying needs to be done through diligent work for the greater good, not just in our head. That is why on days like these I write to share all that has helped me.

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Janmashtami Quotes which will change how you live

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Teacher’s Day Poem and why we celebrate Teacher’s Day

By Anuprita Misra on September 5, 2023 0

Teachers teach us everything we know. Our first teachers are our parents and then comes life with all its lessons. On this Teacher’s Day, we have a poem for you dear teacher.

Teachers Day Poem :Writing and Recitation by Anuprita Misra

To All the Teachers in this World and Beyond

Who am I talking about?

Good morning to everyone Here,

I have a small poem for you to Hear.

Here’s the challenge for you – You must guess who I’m talking about. and I’m giving many Clues.

They are the people who teach us to be honest and True.

From them, we learn so much about animals, birds, trees, and many such

Amazing people who show us the way.

are truly the best, don’t you say?

All of us look up to them a lot →

Now, an answer, have you got?

I’m sure you’ll agree with me.

The answer is

“Teachers!” How easy!

So now, let’s celebrate today

HAPPY TEACHER’S DAY!

By Anuprita Misra

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Recurrent Dengue Fever Dangers

Can you get recurrent Dengue fever? It’s a confusing answer. But one which you must know.

Dengue fever cause:

Recurrent Dengue Fever

Dengue Haemorrhagic fever Symptoms :

Mechanism of bleeding in Dengue Haemorrhagic fever:

Public Awareness is crucial

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3 Mystery Webseries(Bengali) on Hoichoi you must watch

Mr.Kolketa

Official synopsis of Mr.Kolketa

Eken Babu

The official synopsis of Eken Babu

Bouma Detective

Paperback version on Amazon Unauthorized?This what I did

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To All the Teachers in this World and Beyond

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Can you get recurrent Dengue fever? It’s a confusing answer. But one which you must know.

Dengue fever cause:

Recurrent Dengue Fever

Dengue Haemorrhagic fever Symptoms :

Mechanism of bleeding in Dengue Haemorrhagic fever:

Public Awareness is crucial

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