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KENYA: THE LAND OF HAKUNA MATATA

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 If I am not mistaking, apart from watching cartoon shows, the kids from 80's and 90's had maintained one more amazing hobby of story reading. As being a 80's kid I still remember, after coming back from school I used to spend my free hours with varieties of story books. Fortunately, as I was born and brought up in a Bong family, I inherited a special fondness towards literature from prominent Bong genes. I never ran short of extraordinary adventurous stories from Bengali authors (from English authors as well). Stories that can easily take your breath away and can unleash your imagination. Some went into deep forest of Amazon and killed the giant Anaconda. The great Bengali writer Bhibutibhushan Bandopadhyay headed towards the jungle of Masai Mara in his fictitious story 'Chander Pahar' and wrote a brave tale of conquering the ferocious demon. Each and every page is so amazingly crowned with minute details of African forest and wild life, African tribe a

Cambodia: Siem Reap, A Threshold to an Ancient Civilization

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What if the space scientists come up with a ground shaking invention of a 'life giving and emotion mapping' device for the nearby planets to Earth !!! 'Eureka'!!  I'm pretty sure, one of the strong conclusions established by that wondrous device would be something like in the picture below.         Whether it is Hitler's unspeakable torture on Jews people imprisoned in poisonous gas chamber or atomic bombing by United States on Hiroshima & Nagasaki or ongoing worldwide terrorist attacks now a days. There are thousands of ruthless events have taken place (and of course still taking place) on this beautiful earth, making  neighbor planets feel fortunate enough for not being inhabited by Homo sapiens . Mass execution in Cambodian civil war is one of those events when human kind showed a cruel denial to sympathy and innocence. But if you visit this 'smiling country' in recent time, the only lesson you will learn from Khmer peo