The Memoirs of Haimabati Sen ..... a story of a lady doctor

It's a true story of a lady from 18th century who born in rural Bengal in 1866. She married with a 45 years old man, when she was just 9 years old...... that's not shocking because at that time it was common in Bengali community. The MAN didn't satisfy with a CHILD, so he brought women from brothel in his bedroom. God saved Haimabati, her husband died when she was 10 years old...... after one year of their marriage. 

Haimabati fight against the society and married again when she in 25. I write it in only one sentence but believe me the struggle was not so easy at that time. This time she was lucky, got a BETTER !!! husband.

She learned something about medicines and started a journey as a lady doctor in Chuchura in West Bengal. 

This is a true story...... writing by Professor Geraldine Forbes, Distinguished Teaching Professor of History and Dr. Tapan Roychoudhury an Indian Historian specializing in British history, Indian History and History of Bengal. Published by Roli Books, U.K. 

Now you can buy the book online shopping sites like Amazon, Flipkart etc. 

It's painfully easy to trick the mind into seeing things that aren't there....

 People often manipulate what they have experienced to create an illusion of causality.
As per gurdian.co.uk the article posted under "BAD SCIENCE" series. I post it here, it surprised me a lot......

Why do clever people believe stupid things? It's difficult to make sense of the world from the small atoms of experience that we each gather as we wander around it, and a new paper in the British Journal of Psychologythis month shows how we can create illusions of causality, much like visual illusions, if we manipulate the cues and clues we present.

They took 108 students and split them into two groups. Both groups were told about a fictional disease called "Lindsay Syndrome", that could potentially be treated with something called "Batarim". Then they were told about 100 patients, slowly, one by one, each time hearing whether the patient got Batarim or not, and each time hearing whether they got better.

When you're hearing about patients one at a time, in a dreary monotone, it's hard to piece together an overall picture of whether a treatment works (this is one reason why, in evidence-based medicine, "expert opinion" is ranked as the least helpful form of information). So while I can tell you that overall, in these results, 80% of the patients got better, regardless of whether they got Batarim or not – the drug didn't work – this isn't how it appeared to the participants. They overestimated its benefits, as you might expect, but the extent depended on how the information was presented.

The first group were told about 80 patients who got the drug, and 20 patients who didn't. The second group were told about 20 patients who got the drug, and 80 patients who didn't. That was the only difference, but the students in the first group estimated the drug as more effective, while the students who were told about 20 patients receiving it were closer to the truth.

Why is this? One possibility is that the students in the second group saw more patients getting better without the treatment, so got a better intuitive feel for the natural history of the condition, while the people who were told about 80 patients getting Batarim were barraged with data about people who took the drug and got better.

This is just the latest in a whole raft of research showing how we can be manipulated into believing that we have control over chance outcomes, simply by presenting information differently, or giving cues which imply that skill had a role to play. One series of studies has shown that if you manipulate someone to make them feel powerful (through memories of a situation in which they were powerful, for example), they imagine themselves to have even greater control over outcomes that are still purely determined by chance, which perhaps goes some way to explaining the hubris of the great and the good.

We know about optical illusions and the ways in which our eyes can be misled. It would be nice if we could also be wary of cognitive illusions that affect our reasoning apparatus, but like the "close door" buttons in a lift – which, it turns out, are often connected to nothing at all – these illusions are modern curios.

Try to back !!!!

I am really trying to back :o......after a long time [almost one year] I am trying to write something, with the hope that I am as boring as before....:D
Today I have finish a book....BANGALNAMA written by Dr. Tapan Roychoudhury, an autobiography by Indian Historian. 
I like this book for his sense of humor....Nt for his experiences...... I mean to say when you read an autobiography of  a professor of The Oxford University, Harvard University [many more prestigious universities], you expect great experiences, knowledge etc. but I'm surprised with his sense of humor.
The book staring from Bangaladesh, where he born, and ends with his dream.
This book really justify it's name....... It's truly a BANGALNAMA.

Bengali Cinema

After long time I see good Bengali movies. They are really matured than before. I mean in commercial bengali cinema I always see the same story ..........boy meets girl or the AMIR N GARIB story.

In past two days i watch two good bengali movies. One is THE BONG CONNECTION n the other one is ANTOHEEN. They really good.

THE BONG CONNECTION is abt aur root..........to find yourselv in your so called known atmosphere.

ANTOHEEN is the story of four defferent people who know each other n also they don't know themselves. the story end with their "ANTOHEEN APEKSHA" [endless waiting ].

Bengali In Wrold Eating Tour :O

Today I read a book abt a bengali british national, who leave his job n take a world tour for test the best cuisine. He is Simon Majumder.When he hit forty, he realized there had to be more to life than his stablebut uninspiring desk job. as he wonder how to escape his career, he rediscovered a list of goals he had scrawled out years before, the last of which said : Go everywhere, eat everything. With that he found his mission - A year long journey to search of delicious foods, which he named EAT MY GLOBE .