Once upon a time, there lived on the banks of the holy Ganga a Rishi, who spent his days and nights performing religious rites and meditating upon God. From sunrise to sunset, he sat on the river bank engaged in devotion, and at night he took shelter in a hut of palm leaves which he had raised by his own hands in a bush close by. There were no men and women for miles around. In the hut, however, there was a mouse, which used to live upon the leavings of the Rishi’s supper. As it was not in the...
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Lal Behari Dey
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Lal Behari Dey was born on 18 December 1824 to a Kayastha caste family at Sonapalasi near Bardhaman. After primary education in the village school he came to Calcutta with his father and was admitted to Reverend Alexande...
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